What about games? What about kid's apps?? Advanced video & photo editing?? Seriously, have you seen some of this stuff on iOS? Its completely in another league than WP (and to some extent Android). I'm sorry, it just is.
Where's Flipboard, Instagram, a decent Facebook client, Path, Camera+, Hipstamatic, Draw Something, a decent G Voice client? Is there anything even remotely close to iPhoto & iMovie?? Why Microsoft hasn't made apps that rival those last two I'll never know, because they certainly could.
Anyways, most people use apps like crazy & the specific ones (and types) that I mentioned are insanely popular. A phone & its ecosystem isn't just for browsing the internet anymore & using a handful of apps to do some mundane tasks.
They need apps & they need developers, like right now. Because I can tell you right now. I love my Titan, but using the iPhone & its ecosystem is like a whole nother world being opened up to you. One that simply does not exist on WP.
I'm in the group the other guy was in. First, I don't like really gaming on touch screen devices. Have had all the iPads, have probably played angry birds the most and for a total of about 5 hours. If I do like a game, it's some type of bejeweled/angry birds type game. Not modern war 3 or real racing 2.
Video editing apps would be cool on the phone, but I don't think it will be used.basically I think many reviewers out there are docking points for things they don't even use themselves and not adding points for things they will use. Did josh even try out Xbox companion? No on ever talks about how much better the office integration is. For college it's great, view full ppts. With notes, something no app can do on iOS. What about being able to search word documents? Things like that go severely unnoticed.
Groups are something that's never talked about, being able to group some employees, friends, or teammates together and see the history of your emails is a very nice feature also.
Just the other day my professor released grades for a research paper we did with her comments. I am able to go to the website, view the word document with all the comments, save it to my phone, and then email it to a friend. Couldn't do that on most platforms, the comments would fk up. On ios you'd need goodreader to download the file if you want to share it, even then the format will suck.
My point being is that people like josh add points for dead space, but never play it. They add points for AirPlay, but never use it. He adds points for iMovie but probably never uses it (iMovie is cool though don't get me wrong) but they don't add points for things they would actually use.
The apps get criticized all the time but no one talks about microsoft letting emulator or YouTube apps where you can download the videos. Or the YouTube apps that let you play audio in the background (I have friends that love their jb iPhone because it can download YouTube videos, they can't play in the background though, or at least last time I checked)
I think there is way too much emphasis on apps, people want an app that they see on tv that they will never use. People use apps like instagram, twitter, Facebook, pulse, Skype, etc. I don't think many people use their phones for heavy gaming.
People criticize the ecosystem like androids is so great. Only difference is google releases stuff just to get people like josh to shut up. Google music, not that great, got reviewers to shut up about music. Renting videos on android, not that great, prolly done by .5% of android users if that, got reviewers to shut up.
All these trendy apps go away and people go back to using their smartphone for the basic stuff which windows phone does amazingly.