- Jul 25, 2009
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Post: I've been with iPhone for 4 yrs but one thing is stopping me from Nokia 920...
User: Austinguy23
Infraction: Trolling
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Original Post:
User: Austinguy23
Infraction: Trolling
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Cross posting isn't allowed. This is the 3rd time you have made the same post
Original Post:
LOL, I just re-posted my thread complaining about the state of Windows Phone apps in this same subforum and it WAS DELETED AGAIN!
Technically, it's listed as "Moved", but it doesn't show up in any other subforum.
It's disappointing that the mods/admins silence criticism here as it results in just a ****** site.
There are plenty of fanboys on Macrumors, too, but at least they don't delete threads/posts just because they criticize iOS and iPhone (which I've done plenty of).
Here's my post in its entirety. It's relevant to the topic of the subforum and doesn't use profanity or anything so you be the judge as to why it keeps vanishing.
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I looked at the Windows Phone App Store to see if they have the apps I use most often on my iPhone 4S and whether they are as feature rich as the versions available on iOS.
I noticed some troubling patterns. Often the apps I searched for were, in fact, there. However, the ratings and reviews were horrendous. User reviews stated that the apps no longer worked, were buggy, and lacked a great deal of functionality compared to the same app on other platforms like Android or iOS.
Being a skeptic, I thought that perhaps these could just be false reviews/ratings made by competing developers. That is, until I looked at the apps' last release date. That explained it. These apps were all AT LEAST a year old with some listed as having been last updated in 2010!
I compared the last release dates to the same apps in the iOS App Store and found that they had all been updated within the past MONTH.
No wonder the Windows Phone versions were buggy, missing features, and had awful reviews/ratings. Developers had simply slapped together a WP port of their apps long ago (likely only because Microsoft at least partially subsidized the effort) and then completely abandoned the apps to whither away while their iOS & Android counterparts continued to enjoy frequent and impressive updates.
I have to say that I find this incredibly disappointing since I was considering upgrading to the Lumia 920 from my iPhone 4S.
What, if anything, is being done about this?
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