I've been a Windows Mobile fan for many years, I'm on Verizon, so the last good phone I could buy was the Icon, I still have it so I can keep up with the WM10 re-development. While this MS reboot is going on, I went to iPhone, my family of four were all on Windows Phone and surface tablets 1.5 years ago, we are ALL on apple devices now, but I still have the SP3 and Icon.
The iPhone is an very nice phone with very nice features, but I am still hoping that MS gets their act together and get us some nice hardware so we can get back to Windows. But in order to that, there is a feature on iPhone that MS must meet or beat in order to bring me back, it's the Family sharing on IOS.
When I created my Family in IOS I was able to add my wife then create 2 child accounts for my 10 and 11 year old. The child accounts cannot download any apps or purchase anything from the store without parental permission, and every purchase is shared with all family members. Also, all locations are constantly shared between devices in the family, and you can set notifications up that alert you when you child leaves a certain area, if you have children you know how much of a stress reliever that feature is. Then, on each child's device I am able to set a pin and restrict music, movies, videos, web content and every single setting of the iPhone, to the point that I could lock it down in every imaginable way, and it's the same on the kids IPads.
In order to go back to Windows, Ms will have to create some sort of Family feature that at least meets or surpasses what apple currently has, this is a big deal for me and my wife and I imagine there are a lot of other parents out there that feel the same. I created a suggestion at Windows Phone Uservoice with the hope that we can get MS to move on this,
https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...uggestions/9766416-family-control-and-sharing
Please go there and vote it up and lets see if we can get a feature like this on WP10.
The iPhone is an very nice phone with very nice features, but I am still hoping that MS gets their act together and get us some nice hardware so we can get back to Windows. But in order to that, there is a feature on iPhone that MS must meet or beat in order to bring me back, it's the Family sharing on IOS.
When I created my Family in IOS I was able to add my wife then create 2 child accounts for my 10 and 11 year old. The child accounts cannot download any apps or purchase anything from the store without parental permission, and every purchase is shared with all family members. Also, all locations are constantly shared between devices in the family, and you can set notifications up that alert you when you child leaves a certain area, if you have children you know how much of a stress reliever that feature is. Then, on each child's device I am able to set a pin and restrict music, movies, videos, web content and every single setting of the iPhone, to the point that I could lock it down in every imaginable way, and it's the same on the kids IPads.
In order to go back to Windows, Ms will have to create some sort of Family feature that at least meets or surpasses what apple currently has, this is a big deal for me and my wife and I imagine there are a lot of other parents out there that feel the same. I created a suggestion at Windows Phone Uservoice with the hope that we can get MS to move on this,
https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...uggestions/9766416-family-control-and-sharing
Please go there and vote it up and lets see if we can get a feature like this on WP10.