I'm sure that there are probably a million other threads like this, but I had to rant. Lol
Cortana kept suggesting this article for me to read all day: Windows 10 for Phones Details Could Disappoint. I had a lull during my shift at work with nothing else to do, so I went ahead and read it. And it brought up this deep hatred I have for tech journalists that has subsided over the years of following this site instead.
The key topic being brought up over and over again (and I've seen it on plenty of other sites, too) is 512MB RAM devices. The low-end phones; the phones that drive the majority of what little market share WP has.
Pre WP8.1 era, whenever Microsoft's mobile OS was mentioned, the room was flooded with complaints about lack of features and apps (largely by people who had never even used the OS). But OK, I understand that. Then, once 8.1 came out, there was a little bit of praise, and the notorious tech bloggers and journalists ceded that the platform had all (or most*) of the features they were looking for. (*I won't go into detail about the complaints of lack of complete Google integration other than to say that's exactly what Android is for...)
The main thing that WP always had going for it was how buttery smooth it ran on low-end handsets, and this was covered time and time again by quite a lot of people (once they ran out of breath from their app store rants and took a minute to recover). This is significant because Android largely isn't like this when compared to the system from Redmond. In Google's world, if you buy a crappy phone, you get a crappy UX. The bloggers blame the phone and move on**. With WP, this isn't exactly so, but with Win10 coming in preview form possibly this week, Microsoft has said that the 512MB phones won't get all the features that the new OS has in store. Cue complaints from the rabid journalists chomping at the bit for any chance to put Apple or Google in God tier over MSFT... (**Maybe here's a reason why there needs to be more distinction in the WP line of hardware. Lumia always will be synonymous with WP, but maybe we need more separation (and more OEMs that are actually in play... not counting the pathetic attempts by HTC, and particularly Samsung).
I honestly don't think that half of them even understand digital electronics. They expect a brand new OS to come with all these amazing new features (of which we don't even know much about yet), and they expect it to run flawlessly on outdated hardware and shame Microsoft for apparently disabling this new functionality. (OK, outdated is a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea.)
And weren't these the same people who just months ago were telling me how Windows Phone finally brought all the features that they would ever need in a phone?
TL;DR: Pro-tip: downloadmoreram.com doesn't really work
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Alright, so I know that, in their defense, they have to write articles that draw readers in, and it's trendy to diss WP. But can't they just for once sit back and look at the articles that they're writing and at least consider the content against what they wrote about the competitors' platforms? I mean, I'm a bit of a MSFT ******, but I can't be too rash in saying that there's some unreasonable hate for the platform on the interwebz.
Cortana kept suggesting this article for me to read all day: Windows 10 for Phones Details Could Disappoint. I had a lull during my shift at work with nothing else to do, so I went ahead and read it. And it brought up this deep hatred I have for tech journalists that has subsided over the years of following this site instead.
The key topic being brought up over and over again (and I've seen it on plenty of other sites, too) is 512MB RAM devices. The low-end phones; the phones that drive the majority of what little market share WP has.
Pre WP8.1 era, whenever Microsoft's mobile OS was mentioned, the room was flooded with complaints about lack of features and apps (largely by people who had never even used the OS). But OK, I understand that. Then, once 8.1 came out, there was a little bit of praise, and the notorious tech bloggers and journalists ceded that the platform had all (or most*) of the features they were looking for. (*I won't go into detail about the complaints of lack of complete Google integration other than to say that's exactly what Android is for...)
The main thing that WP always had going for it was how buttery smooth it ran on low-end handsets, and this was covered time and time again by quite a lot of people (once they ran out of breath from their app store rants and took a minute to recover). This is significant because Android largely isn't like this when compared to the system from Redmond. In Google's world, if you buy a crappy phone, you get a crappy UX. The bloggers blame the phone and move on**. With WP, this isn't exactly so, but with Win10 coming in preview form possibly this week, Microsoft has said that the 512MB phones won't get all the features that the new OS has in store. Cue complaints from the rabid journalists chomping at the bit for any chance to put Apple or Google in God tier over MSFT... (**Maybe here's a reason why there needs to be more distinction in the WP line of hardware. Lumia always will be synonymous with WP, but maybe we need more separation (and more OEMs that are actually in play... not counting the pathetic attempts by HTC, and particularly Samsung).
I honestly don't think that half of them even understand digital electronics. They expect a brand new OS to come with all these amazing new features (of which we don't even know much about yet), and they expect it to run flawlessly on outdated hardware and shame Microsoft for apparently disabling this new functionality. (OK, outdated is a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea.)
And weren't these the same people who just months ago were telling me how Windows Phone finally brought all the features that they would ever need in a phone?
TL;DR: Pro-tip: downloadmoreram.com doesn't really work
</rant>
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Alright, so I know that, in their defense, they have to write articles that draw readers in, and it's trendy to diss WP. But can't they just for once sit back and look at the articles that they're writing and at least consider the content against what they wrote about the competitors' platforms? I mean, I'm a bit of a MSFT ******, but I can't be too rash in saying that there's some unreasonable hate for the platform on the interwebz.