WP8 will make older WP's obsolete...REALLY?!

[socialcarpet]

That's kind of how I feel about Windows Phone also. I just still cannot understand why Microsoft put out such a low end OS on the Market when they did. They could have done just as well by creating a skin over WM to get by until they worked all the kinks out of Windows Phone. To top it off, they did a horrible job promoting it and getting it out to the market. I'm staying with Windows only because I figure I have nothing else to loose. I've been a WM user for many years and just stuck with it after my TP2 went bad and was upgraded.

I'll wait and see what happens after they actually release and ship WP8 devices before I make any final decisions.

So a skinned over buggy WM 6.5 wouldn't have been as low-end?

What makes WP7 "low-end" in your opinion? Aside from a few missing features, it's actually got all the capability most people want out of a smartphone. It certainly performs more responsively and more reliably than any of the 3 Android devices I've owned. My phone hasn't crashed once since I've owned it and I have only rebooted it 4 times since I've owned it (3 times because I had to to install and update and once just for the **** of it.)

Will WP8, which is going to look and act 90% the same out of the box is going to be high-end then?

I guess I'm missing the "low-end" part.

What's low-end? Is it the kernel? The parts you never see that you'd never even know about if you hadn't been told about them? Was it low-end before you ever knew there was an NT-kernel version coming?

If MS did a blind taste test and released a new phone tomorrow with 7.8 on it and the new home screen and threw in orientation lock and 2 or 3 of the most requested features and told everyone it was a new super deluxe NT kernel high-end super phone I guarantee you that you and almost everyone else would not know the damn difference.

 

[socialcarpet]

I really wouldn't call 7.5 and 7.8 obsolete. V8 doesn't make the current version any less functional. Therefore, in my opinion, if you have a WP7.5 device and are happy about it, the launch of WP8 shouldn't make you any less happy.


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People are misusing the word obsolete.

Obsolete means no longer in common use, not comparable or compatible with it's peers etc.

WP7 is still being sold on new phones and will be for a while, it still has a library full of current apps that are compatible with current standards.

It's not going to be "obsolete" for some time. Even after they've stopped making new apps that are compatible with 7.5, which won't be until about a year after WP8, the apps that already exist are going to work just fine for years to come.

WP7 isn't even going to be close to "obsolete" until long after everyone's contract has ended and they have had plenty of time to get a new WP8 phone.

If you're some kind of penny pincher who keeps their smartphone for 7 years, that's your problem. Guess what, my Palm Treo 180g wouldn't run WebOS either.

WM 6.5 is just beginning to approach obsolescence itself.

So people can be upset about not getting WP8 if they like, but calling WP7 "obsolete is neither true nor accurate in the least.

It's amazing how twisted some peoples panties are over this when they don't even know what features WP8 will have for sure. Ironically, the one feature they know it will have, the new home screen, will be included in 7.8.

"I liked what I had and thought it was great, until I found out there was something newer coming that I couldn't have. I don't know what it is, but I'm SURE what I have now suddenly sucks and the newer thing is awesome and I am MAD I can't have it!!!"

Really logical.

 

[thecaringkind]

I certainly agree socialcarpet. Its almost like there's this cellphone group think phenomena going on that renders people incapable of being objective, or at the very least slows them down from all of the hyperbole. As I mentioned myself before, WP 7.X is and will be no more obsolete than the millions of android phones floating around out there rocking 'Gingerbread'. The criticism is woefully short sighted and tinged with the unmistakable flavor of Apple/Android Kool-Aide. I suppose there are many Microsoft haters out there but the bottom line is they just got it right. Is the OS growing and evolving? YES. Tell me WP naysayers: Which OS DIDN'T?

 

[socialcarpet]

I certainly agree socialcarpet. Its almost like there's this cellphone group think phenomena going on that renders people incapable of being objective, or at the very least slows them down from all of the hyperbole. As I mentioned myself before, WP 7.X is and will be no more obsolete than the millions of android phones floating around out there rocking 'Gingerbread'. The criticism is woefully short sighted and tinged with the unmistakable flavor of Apple/Android Kool-Aide. I suppose there are many Microsoft haters out there but the bottom line is they just got it right. Is the OS growing and evolving? YES. Tell me WP naysayers: Which OS DIDN'T?

It's the Android Kool-Aid actually.

Apple is pretty sensible and conservative about how they time their new hardware and OS releases. Plenty of time in between and the changes are never so vast that the old device seems terrible and obsolete overnight. That's one of the reasons all of Apple's stuff retains it's resale value so well.

Android on the other hand is a ridiculous over-the-top tacky marketing free for all. Every 2 months there is a new phone with an even stupider exaggeratory name like SUPER INTENSE INCREDIBLE AMAZING AWESOME III. It's like they have a bunch of 8 year olds calling the shots. No class, no taste, no maturity in that whole platform/ecosystem. I just roll my eyes every time. :lol:

THAT is where this ridiculous attitude comes from, the idea that things that are great today become horribly inadequate and obsolete overnight.

I liken it to the American car industry in the 60s and 70s building crappy cars for years, but adding bigger fins and different grilles every year along with over the top stupid marketing schemes to convince people they need something new right away.

Compare that to Volvo or Mercedes or other mature European car makers with class during that same time. They focused on building simple, elegant quality and being consistent about it. They could keep the styling the same for a lot longer because they did it right the first time and people who bought them were buying substance, not superficial fluff. That's Windows Phone and iPhone right there.