IMHO: After 2 Years With Windows Phone
As a long term Microsoft fan I have 1520, Surface Tablet, Dell Venue 8 Pro Tablet, Xbox one, and all of Microsoft Services, I can say that Microsoft didn't do enough to push convince existing customers not to switch from windows phone.
I've used 4 Different Windows Phone Devices and I've been using Windows Phone for almost 2 years now.
- Lumia 920
- Lumia 520
- Lumia 720
- Lumia 1520
I won't deny that i was impressed by it in the beginning, I loved it, and still love it but wish for Windows Phone to be the best Phone OS out there, but as time passes by, I notice that Windows Phone is a huge compromise in almost every aspect, even after the last Developers Preview update. IMHO it seems like Microsoft is lost, they do not know what they want, they are trying new ways to gain new grounds in the market, however they care less about the "already existing" Customers, and they forgot the existing customers, and this is a major problem, because a satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
And the more more seems like they are trying to cut the spending on Windows Phone as much as they can, and that seems obvious because of:
A. Windows Phone is still having Notification Issues with all the apps.
B. No Matter how big the update were, WP Still Lags behind the Competition in many ways, and these updates did not add that much of value to the existing features.
C. Two Years IMO is more than enough to make Windows Phone Succeed and fix all the major and minor issues, and that didn't happen.
D. Microsoft Services and Apps on Windows Phone lags behind the competition, which means they don't even support their own OS well enough to be as good as the one they made for the competitors.
E. The Music App Is low Quality app, despite Microsoft pushing an update every now and then, it needs a new UI, the one they have right now is rubbish and makes WP Look like a phone from the 90's.
F. The Video App is still not as good as the paid apps in the store.
Now After Two years with Windows Phone 8 - 8.1 - Cyan and even the new developers preview update are supposed to be better than the competition in terms of supporting Microsoft services like Skype in its own platform which wasn't working well on windows phone ever since I've known it.
I've tried Skype on IOS or Android, and by far Windows Phone Version is the worst, it's rubbish, it misses all the notifications, you won't believe this but even the Calls Sound Quality on IPhone 5s - 6 was WAY BETTER than all the flagship Windows Phone I've used, and Skype on IOS Delivers the Notifications in time, which is supposed to be much better on Windows Phone, but Microsoft Won't fix that either in all the 5 or 6 updates I've got so far in all the devices I've had.
like a year ago I convinced my wife to switch to windows phone, 6 months later she threw the phone and got an iPhone, and i understand why, especially that we use Skype a lot, and because of the rubbish windows phone Apps, and lack of support from Microsoft to it's own loyal customers we have a lost of missed calls on daily basis, even though we pay for cellular internet.
Moreover after the last Os update it freezing and never works, as a long committing Microsoft fan, if the Android or IOS Versions were broken, they would've fixed it in a matter of hours, but we Windows Phone users have to suffer which isn't acceptable.
I know some of you will be like, I don't Skype that much, or My Skype Seems fine, but for God's sake don't we deserve to have a good phone especially that we paid for it?
- Don't we deserve to have our Notifications delivered in time,
- Don't we deserve to have our Apps Work Flawlessly on our Phones?
- Don't we deserve better apps that do not show "Resuming..." all the time?
Microsoft as a company has billions, but we save a lot of money to buy their phones, and eventually we expect to have good phones , not less than any other phone out there, we pay money for these phones, we don't pay half the price, and we should expect a good reliable Phone OS.
Honestly, I hate Google, and Apple. And Yes, I love Microsoft, But Microsoft needs to take criticisms seriously, and we should not pretend that everything is okay anymore, either they fix the OS or not expect anyone to stay using this half baked Rubbish Phone OS.
Despite everything they've done, this is a very slow progress, and now they are thinking about Windows 10, without Fixing Windows 8.1 is just a joke, and saying that they will deliver it to windows phone in 2015 is even worse.
It's sad to say that Microsoft still has a long journey to have a good reliable Phone OS, and now the fact that they talked about Windows 10, it's sad to say that even Windows 10 needs a lot of work, which will repeat the same story with windows phone.
I don't understand for how long do we have to wait get a good reliable OS that we can be happy to use, it's frustrating, at least allow Microsoft Services to run will on your own phone, better than or equal to the other platforms, that's a sad and silly joke.
In order for Microsoft to Succeed in the mobile world they need to hand over all of Microsoft employees a windows phone to use it as the main daily activities phone, to see how frustrated their employees will be in a very short period of time, then compare it's WP OS with the competition and understand the huge differences between the competition and Windows Phone.
Even Tom Warren Switched to Iphone 6 Now.
What a Shame!
Ali
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