What happened to Windows Phone\Mobile

[Chintan Gohel]

Windows Phone has been dead since its arrival. I remember back in 2011 in a bar, my friend showing me her fancy new smartphone - an HTC Windows Phone 7 - and we spent 15 min trying to figure out how to save a person's phone number once they called you, with no success. We asked people sitting at the bar if they could figure it out and no one could.

Such has been the case of Windows Phone since its inception. It is a cluttered, non-user friendly, non-intuitive mess, and every Windows Phone ****** out there will deny it till they turn blue in the face. People don't like Windows Phone because the interface is weird, confusing, and once they finally learn the curve they discover it doesn't have any apps that they need.

People buy smartphones for the apps. If they didn't buy it for the apps, they would just get a regular phone. If a smartphone doesn't have the apps they want, why stick with that phone when there are two obvious alternatives out there? They have no obligation to torture themselves to sticking to an inferior OS while everyone else and their mom is playing Pokemon Go.

Yes, i agree people buy smartphone for apps and we are too far behind from android and iOS. Its too annoying when my friends ask me how many Pok?mon you have catch i cant answer them because we don't even have Pok?mon app in store and thats not only with Pok?mon app, every new app launch for android & ios, then we beg them to make it available for windows os then it available for windows and sometimes they didn't even listen to us( Snapchat) i don't know this problem will solve in future or this will be the strongest reason for the end of windows phone.

since the current windows 10 mobile looks almost similar to windows 10 on pc and tablets, shall we say people don't understand or find intuitive the way windows 10 works on pc?

There are those that find the other way round is not great - using ios or android. True, a lot of people want apps

 

[Ray Robertson]

Such has been the case of Windows Phone since its inception. It is a cluttered, non-user friendly, non-intuitive mess, and every Windows Phone ****** out there will deny it till they turn blue in the face. People don't like Windows Phone because the interface is weird, confusing, and once they finally learn the curve they discover it doesn't have any apps that they need.

People buy smartphones for the apps. If they didn't buy it for the apps, they would just get a regular phone. If a smartphone doesn't have the apps they want, why stick with that phone when there are two obvious alternatives out there? They have no obligation to torture themselves to sticking to an inferior OS while everyone else and their mom is playing Pokemon Go.

I disagree with it being non-intuitive, but TOTALLY agree with why buy a smart phone with no apps. There are features that to me are WAY easier and more user friendly than Android or iOS. For example if you select a word or term and hit the search button you can do a search. No cutting and pasting. Not sure if you can do that on Android and pretty sure you can't on iOS. Although they are square icons they are icons, so really no difference there unless you can't get over the fact that it's a square. Saving images from the internet is easy peasy, click, hold and save. Not sure if you can do that in the other OS's. Glance, Iris Scanning (two features others like Samsung have copied) and I can go on and on. BTW saving a contact is SUPER EASY and has always been. BUT....

NO APPS! I can't argue, debate or any other word you can think of with you there. Being able to have access to apps is AWESOME!!! People always say, "Oh I don't use that/Need that anyways." With my new Galaxy S7 and access to apps...it's AMAZING. Chase, Waze, LinkedIn, Instagram(They need 6Tag features though), CNN and other apps that were never available on Windows Phone are now there.

My BIGGEST gripe and something you really don't have to deal with on Windows devices is BLOATWARE. I HATE IT!!!! Apps you can only deactivate, but not delete. WTF?!!!!! I thought it was MY phone, that I PAID for and that I USE. You don't get that kind of crap on a Windows device. Still Love Windows Phone, but again...What has happened?