tired of Windows Phone not getting respect

[anon(1019781)]

You are trying to compare that to what Microsoft has done. Windows Phone 7 (and more 8) is trying to rethink how people can use the phone in a better way then the other two. If it had every feature of the other two, it would just be creating another of the same.

Remember this?

Windows Mobile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What happened to those 12 years worth of features in a touchscreen smartphone Microsoft has been selling since the year 2000? Seemingly vanished, haven't they?

Microsoft is just doing what Apple did, putting a new spin on smartphones but leaving out the features and hoping users love the interaction with the phone.

The problem is that Apple actually did something revolutionary while Microsoft just put its spin on what Apple did first, along with the HUGE weaknesses that iPhone had when it first came out. iPhone didn't have all the features of Blackberry and Symbian but people didn't really care since the interaction between them and the phone was so vastly different. There's not much difference between Windows Phone and iPhone, even down to the business model, and Microsoft should have realized this and said: "we're going to learn from our experience with Pocket PC 2000, Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, WM5, WM6, etc and just put ALL the features we used to have into our new phones so customers will be confident in switching to Windows Phone because all of the features they would expect in a smartphone WILL be there."

Did that happen? ....Nope. Heck, you can't even attach a PDF to emails on Windows Phone 8. Not even with years of putting out Windows Mobile/Pocket PC did they do such a thing like putting all those things in their touchscreen devices, and THAT is why Windows Phone isn't taking off as well as it should.

You can make fun of iPhone and Android all you want for not having too many features when they debuted, but Apple and Google never did a mobile OS before, while Microsoft did, yet today's Microsoft mobile users are back to square one in the functionality of their devices, and there's no excuse for that.

 

[FinsUpDNC]

Remember this?

Windows Mobile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What happened to those 12 years worth of features in a touchscreen smartphone Microsoft has been selling since the year 2000? Seemingly vanished, haven't they?

Microsoft is just doing what Apple did, putting a new spin on smartphones but leaving out the features and hoping users love the interaction with the phone.

The problem is that Apple actually did something revolutionary while Microsoft just put its spin on what Apple did first, along with the HUGE weaknesses that iPhone had when it first came out. iPhone didn't have all the features of Blackberry and Symbian but people didn't really care since the interaction between them and the phone was so vastly different. There's not much difference between Windows Phone and iPhone, even down to the business model, and Microsoft should have realized this and said "we're going to learn from our experience with Pocket PC 2000, Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, WM5, WM6, etc and just put ALL the features we used to have into our new phones into this new one so customers will be confident in switching to Windows Phone because all of the features they would expect in a smart phone WILL be there."

Did that happen? No. ****, you can't even attach a PDF to emails on Windows Phone 8. Not even with years of putting out Windows Mobile/Pocket PC did they do such a thing like putting all those things in their touchscreen devices, and THAT is why Windows Phone isn't taking off as well as it should.

You can make fun of iPhone and Android all you want for not having too many features when they debuted, but Apple and Google never did a mobile OS before, while Microsoft did, yet today's Microsoft mobile users are back to square one in the functionality of their devices, and there's no excuse for that.

Go enjoy your iPhone lite, and I will enjoy my phone. Why are you not in the android forums anyway? There is room for multiple OS's in this world btw......

 

[anon(1019781)]

Go enjoy your iPhone lite, and I will enjoy my phone. Why are you not in the android forums anyway? There is room for multiple OS's in this world btw......

Lite? Android is more like an iPhone-clone that respects the intelligence of its userbase and isn't afraid to give users everything they can. Microsoft could have done this to an extent with Windows Phone 7 and 8 since they were in the best position being the company with experience stretching back to Y2K but nope, they threw it all away to become what you refer to as "iPhone Lite" since Windows Phone is in fact the platform with the smallest featureset, which is the reason that, to answer the OP of this thread, Windows Phone does not get any respect.

So, are you going to ignore the 12 year span of time that Microsoft had to create a great phone and continue to act as if Microsoft didn't just take the iPhone's every aspect except the UI or are you going to admit that the reason why Windows Phone is struggling to get to 3rd place is because Microsoft is because they're just not trying hard enough given the resources and experience they have?

Here's where Microsoft was back in 2002, a full 5 years before the iPhone, yet they still don't have the features in 2012 that they had back then. Kind of ridiculous when you think about it, and that's exactly why publications and people above a certain age all collectively say: "Where the **** are the features, Microsoft?"

Here is Windows Mobile 2003, adding even more features. Where's all those features in Windows Phone 7 or 8?



Oh look, here is Windows Mobile 6 which came out in February 2007 right after the iPhone was announced, complete with some kind of notification center. What happened to that in Windows Phone 8 a whole 5 years later?



And you guys wonder why Windows Phone gets no respect? Come on....

 

[cedarlog]

each one of them want you to buy what he likes not what you like its up to you do you want to buy what they like or what you like ?

 

[ImmortalWarrior]

Lite? Android is more like an iPhone-clone that respects the intelligence of its userbase and isn't afraid to give users everything they can. Microsoft could have done this to an extent with Windows Phone 7 and 8 since they were in the best position being the company with experience stretching back to Y2K but nope, they threw it all away to become what you refer to as "iPhone Lite" since Windows Phone is in fact the platform with the smallest featureset, which is the reason that, to answer the OP of this thread, Windows Phone does not get any respect.

So, are you going to ignore the 12 year span of time that Microsoft had to create a great phone and continue to act as if Microsoft didn't just take the iPhone's every aspect except the UI or are you going to admit that the reason why Windows Phone is struggling to get to 3rd place is because Microsoft is because they're just not trying hard enough given the resources and experience they have?

Here's where Microsoft was back in 2002, a full 5 years before the iPhone, yet they still don't have the features in 2012 that they had back then. Kind of ridiculous when you think about it, and that's exactly why publications and people above a certain age all collectively say: "Where the **** are the features, Microsoft?"

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Here is Windows Mobile 2003, adding even more features. Where's all those features in Windows Phone 7 or 8?

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Oh look, here is Windows Mobile 6 which came out in February 2007 right after the iPhone was announced, complete with some kind of notification center. What happened to that in Windows Phone 8 a whole 5 years later?

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And you guys wonder why Windows Phone gets no respect? Come on....

I used to develop for that train wreck of a platform. Wrote geocaching apps for 6.1

To paraphrase George Carlin, think of how dumb the average smartphone user is, then realize that half of them are dumber than that. The problem is that the average user doesn't understand a PC. Microsoft was trying to make their mobile platform too much like their desktop platform. It created complications with usability.

I am an advanced Unix user. An expert Windows user. I've worked with embedded software and Assembly. I spent over a year working in network security. I currently work as an Application developer for a major insurance company. I don't care that I can't program and test python on my phone, I just want it to work as a communication tool. Windows Phone does 95% of what I want, and it does it faster than any other.

I always get a laugh at Android users who talk about the "nerdy" development features of their phone but then they don't know their ass from their elbow when it comes to development anyways

 

[SinisterDuck]

Yeah, I still don't get why some come in a place like this and attack a platform they don't even use. A bit of fear runs between the lines.

Fear of what? That is the question.

 

[inteller]

i agree that it should be a great communication device, but there are still a LOT of features missing from WP8 that were in WM6.x Ringer management in particular is not there. I've been hammering on Nokia to bring Pastilli Labs on board to write Situations for WIndows Phone. If you have ever used it on Symbian then you know what I'm talking about.

 

[BokiV]

I just love being the outlaw and root for the underdog, plus, I just LOVE my 8x, and i had android for years..wp gives me the smoothness of iphone and enough geeknes of android