I?m starting to get increasingly worried about how WP development is progressing. Microsoft continues to drag its feet in bringing new features, bug fixes to known problems, improvements to obvious design limitations and bringing parity with iOS/Android.
I believe they really need to take a step back, start listening to their loyal user base, particularly the ones who jumped on-board from WP7. Now if that means holding back on broadening the hardware range and global market reach, so be it.
Nokia are clearly driving things and there?s no doubt that the platform would not be where it is without them. I love their energy, focus and determination to succeed. But Nokia want to run before they can walk and it's starting to hurt the platform overall as non-Lumia users become increasingly frustrated.
The other OEMs are leagues behind Nokia and are only showing tepid interest. HTC is literally in reverse. When, if ever, will I see a similar support for call blocking on my 8X, just released by Nokia? And I thought Microsoft had solved the fragmentation conundrum.
And worst of all, the carriers delay updates, block universal features and demand pointless, exclusive model variants to try and differentiate. The knock-on effect is that Microsoft feels it has to broaden its appeal even further a-field in order to gain traction. This can?t continue like this.
To Microsoft: Change course. Get the basics right for everybody first. Instead of rolling out meaningless updates that drip feed new APIs for Nokia to exploit (in lieu of proper features), move core OS development faster. Stop trying to reach the entire world and every hardware price point when I can?t even apply a volume level on my alarms!
What does the community think, does Microsoft need to change course, do things differently or is their strategy about right?
I believe they really need to take a step back, start listening to their loyal user base, particularly the ones who jumped on-board from WP7. Now if that means holding back on broadening the hardware range and global market reach, so be it.
Nokia are clearly driving things and there?s no doubt that the platform would not be where it is without them. I love their energy, focus and determination to succeed. But Nokia want to run before they can walk and it's starting to hurt the platform overall as non-Lumia users become increasingly frustrated.
The other OEMs are leagues behind Nokia and are only showing tepid interest. HTC is literally in reverse. When, if ever, will I see a similar support for call blocking on my 8X, just released by Nokia? And I thought Microsoft had solved the fragmentation conundrum.
And worst of all, the carriers delay updates, block universal features and demand pointless, exclusive model variants to try and differentiate. The knock-on effect is that Microsoft feels it has to broaden its appeal even further a-field in order to gain traction. This can?t continue like this.
To Microsoft: Change course. Get the basics right for everybody first. Instead of rolling out meaningless updates that drip feed new APIs for Nokia to exploit (in lieu of proper features), move core OS development faster. Stop trying to reach the entire world and every hardware price point when I can?t even apply a volume level on my alarms!
What does the community think, does Microsoft need to change course, do things differently or is their strategy about right?