TheVerge. Aaaargh.

[Laura Knotek]

Although I'll forever find it funny that he uses an iPhone, don't forget that ;-)

Looks like he's device agnostic. I see he's used iPhone, iPad, rowi for Windows Phone, TweetDeck, Tweetro, and rowi for Windows 8, when I looked at his recent Tweets.

 

[gwydionjhr]

Vlad Savov has been generous to Windows Phone

Haven't listened to the latest VMP yet have we?

 

[HeyCori]

Haven't listened to the latest VMP yet have we?

I have not. Has he gone full Josh?

 

[socialcarpet]

See, here's the thing, I think there's something to this article. Aesthetics matter, a lot.
Think of the battle between Android and iOS as the Myspace/Facebook fight all over again.

Myspace was a cluttered, chaotic, aesthetic mess, anything goes. The same is largely true of Android. It's possible to have a gorgeous Android homescreen, but for some reason people think piling more deeper and higher is better.

Facebook is sterile, neat, controlled, limited, much like iOS. But there are certain advantages to that aesthetic, as both facebook and Apple have realized.

The result of that aesthetic is something unintended--a pretty obvious split between the respective audiences for their products. Back when Myspace was a thing, there was a "white flight" from myspace to facebook.

Facebook, MySpace: A race/class divide? | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Facebook, MySpace Divide Along Social Lines : NPR

Edit: So I'm not sure where that leaves WP7, aesthetically. It's gorgeous, obviously, but to whom does it appeal? I love text and fonts, so I've always loved the UI.

Android is Myspace.

iOS is Facebook.

....and WP7 is Twitter.

Why? Because Twitter breaks information down into it's simplest components. It's simply the cleanest, most efficient way to communicate and get the information you want and need quickly with a minimum of window dressing and distraction. It doesn't do everything Myspace and Facebook do, but that can be a good thing if you would rather spend more time engaged in the real world outside the backlit screen.

 

[socialcarpet]

Personally I don't read The Verge. The only time I visit the page is once in a rare while when someone posts a link like this to another insipid ******-baiting anti-WP article they've written to drum up page views.

It's not that they've been critical of WP so much as I just don't think the writing is particularly good and they pretend to be objective when they are anything but, and that extends to everything, not just WP7.

I don't have a blog, but I did study journalism and I can say with complete confidence, I can out write anyone on that entire sh*tshow of a website.

There are so many tech blogs out there of much higher caliber, you could never read them all. Why even waste time with The Verge or that hipster twink Josh Topolsky?