Re: Windows 10 Mobile Official/Production: Anniversary Update 14393.67 (Redstone 1, non-Insider)
Are MSFT trying to push customers away from Windows 10 Mobile? First they get rid of the gorgeously fluid menus established for years. Then they slash the free OneDrive storage. Now, they?ve ditched kids corner.
My phone auto-updated last night and come the morning, when my son asked to play a game on my phone, I can?t get to kids corner. Can?t find it in the settings anymore. Then a quick internet search reveals MSFT have thrown in away. Seriously MSFT? My wife and I both have windows phones (930 and 950) and kids corner is one of our top features. We can let our 3yo play a quick game without having to worry about IAPs or him messing with our settings and deleting things. Apps corner is just pants in comparison, doesn?t stop IAPs (alright, they are still pin protected, just not disabled), I can?t seem to launch it from swiping anymore either; I have to go the app and manually launch it. It takes ages to load and then ages to close. They might say usage was low, but if that?s the case then just put the feature in to maintenance only mode.
I really am so annoyed now. I?ve loved the windows phone OS for years now, ever since I got the 800 on WP7.5. Every phone and release just seemed to get better and better. With WP8.1 I honestly believed it was the best OS on the market. Friends of mine with Android and iOS just had no answer to features like the brilliant start screen or kids corner. With W10M it seems to be gradually morphing in to the other boring phone OSs. How long before they ditch the customisable start screen with fixed-sized static icons?
My wife ventured in to the WP world with the 930, she?s dead set on switching away from WP on her next upgrade now that kids corner is gone. The app store gap has bugged her the whole time, but some unique features were keeping her interested ? were.
Oh yeah, and now my emails won?t open. The app just crashes on load every time. But, it?s okay, if I restart my phone I get to open them once before the crashing starts again ? grrr.
Rant over.