Just for sh*ts and giggles, I Went down the list of problems they say followed them through three Lumias in the 950 series.
None of the app update problems, crashes or issues with 4K recording (since I have a two month old son and want my videos of him to hold as technology progresses, I've actually left 4K as the default option and have been recording things he does almost daily since I got this phone), and even tried to install MS-DOS Mobile since that's one of very few times they stopped being vague to specifically cite something - and it installed fine. Prior to seeing this, I was about to make a thread regarding this to see if I was just lucky... but it seems like a minority (regardless of how vocal) are the ones experiencing these issues. I wouldn't say this review nails it at all... but rather it tries to magnify the exception into being the rule. This will get on the good side of the shills that religiously hang out here just to bash the WP platform, but this is a big no-no for reviewers that want to be ethical and fair.
I will mention that I did at one point and time have some problem with stuck updates on my 950, but the very day I read this article
Microsoft may have just fixed stuck app updates in the Windows 10 Mobile store | Windows Central I checked my phone and sure enough the stuck updates were taken care of.
Even in app crashes... I have 412 apps on my Lumia 950 now (including every single Xbox enabled Gameloft game and pretty much all the other major games on WP too). The only one that downright crashes is Mass Effect Infiltrator. Every single time I open it up it crashes. I get inescapable black screen problems with Spectral Souls and Monster GO!, but even if we were to count those as crashes, that'd still mean 409/412 apps I currently have installed work just fine.
Silent majority is always an ignored
but very important aspect. If there's anything universally true, it's that there are more unsatisfied people complaining than there are satisfied people praising. I can catch my Nexus 5 having two errors any day of the week... and my Nike+ app crashes every time I open it on my iPhone. And I just happen to have 5 stuck updates on my iPad
right now that have persisted for about a month and persisted through the recent update to iOS9.2.
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... if I wanted to center a review around those and briefly show a list of user complaints to get those "I'm not alone!" cookies, I could spin-doctor Android/iOS into looking badly as well... but I have more integrity than that. That's why the truly established reviewers like MKBHD may point out OS bugs (such as the always reliable way to make an iPhone crash) but they don't use such low, scummy spin doctor tactics to represent a phone or an OS as a whole.
...I've seen better than this out of Fisher. This is
not some of his better work... actually seems like he took a page out of The Verge's book. If even a single person were to make a decision to avoid based off this review, it should be met with shame.