Wife and I just got the phones Lumia 900 Cyan/White upon release.. She had an iPhone 4 (we still have it) and I had a HTC HD7 Pro on US Cellular. We both love the phones outside of some apps that she used not being as good as on ios.. I'm not bashing Microsoft for not including Apollo on Lumia 900s, Titan 2s et all..
My only concern is with the future of app development on these phones. I know on some android devices apps simply just don't show up if your phone does not meet the hardware requirements.. But you still have access to the same basic app upgrades or simple apps that don't require the hardware specifications dual cpu etc..
I have read online for reviews and trying to figure out if they are going to totally fork over to an entirely different marketplace that we won't have access to, or will it be the same marketplace for WP 7.8 and WP8 apps but we just won't see the kiddo games requiring dual cpu, newer gpu games, NFC apps etc..
I really hope we don't become a sideshow marketplace like what happened with Windows Mobile 6.5 and prior. With very little updates to basic simple apps like pinspiration, facebook, twitter apps, and whatever new services spring up in the next 22 months.. If that is going to happen then we'll just reactive iPhone 4, and sell these phones for a 4s or HTC One x. The fact we are getting resizable tiles means nothing to me if it's a forked marketplace left with people trapped into old windows phones that will be bailing in 1-2 years, not making up enough marketshare for anyone to care to develop for it when WP8 is the hot thing.
My only concern is with the future of app development on these phones. I know on some android devices apps simply just don't show up if your phone does not meet the hardware requirements.. But you still have access to the same basic app upgrades or simple apps that don't require the hardware specifications dual cpu etc..
I have read online for reviews and trying to figure out if they are going to totally fork over to an entirely different marketplace that we won't have access to, or will it be the same marketplace for WP 7.8 and WP8 apps but we just won't see the kiddo games requiring dual cpu, newer gpu games, NFC apps etc..
I really hope we don't become a sideshow marketplace like what happened with Windows Mobile 6.5 and prior. With very little updates to basic simple apps like pinspiration, facebook, twitter apps, and whatever new services spring up in the next 22 months.. If that is going to happen then we'll just reactive iPhone 4, and sell these phones for a 4s or HTC One x. The fact we are getting resizable tiles means nothing to me if it's a forked marketplace left with people trapped into old windows phones that will be bailing in 1-2 years, not making up enough marketshare for anyone to care to develop for it when WP8 is the hot thing.