stephen_az
Banned
There's no doubt all the extra features, including the Action Center for notifications, and Cortana, improved the Windows Phone OS, with 8.1.
IMO, though, since the update focused on getting the platform *away* from the hubs model that it was created around (see: all those 'Smoked by WP' commercials), and towards needing to launch an app for everything, the only thing that now separates Windows Phone from iOS or Android, is a preferance over one company's ecosystem and store of applications over another.
Personally, I'm not a fan-boy of anyone one company's, and my contention is, if you now need an app for everything, I see no reason to not move full time to iOS, for example.
Aside from Microsoft losing a customer, I don't see the point of WP any longer.
Not trolling, or raising a dust-up, just trying to start a discussion about the move away from the hubs model, and the potential upsides/downsides, and what will be the chief selling point for the platform.
I have no concern at all with your position - everyone is entitled to their opinion. I do wish, however, people would think before they frame arguments that are logically challenged. If they killed it then the changes did not improve it. That represents an inherent and irreconcilable contradiction.