Ok, this is not a spiteful rant about how good this or that is compared to Windows Phone etc. It's
just my own hands-on experience with Windows Phone after using it for 48 hours as my main phone.
I am an ASP.NET dev and was looking forward to finally using a Windows Phone device as my
daily driver, maybe even start developing apps for it etc. Since c# and .NET meta-wise like frameworks are my cup of tea.
I figured the platform must have matured by now to the point where all the basics/primaries
are refined and working without glitches.
Putting aside the fact that the Nokia (Welcome to Windows Phone) migration wizard failed miserably,
my first few hours with a Windows Phone taught me a painful experience immediately, I just wanted to setup some
basic stuff on the start screen like a clock and weather tile. I did this and installed some app which
displayed a large time and date tile as well as weather. Shortly after setting up the basics I arrived to a meeting 20 minutes late because
I found out the damn live tile either does not update at all, or updates every once in a blue moon. So I thought maybe the install botched up
or it was a bad app, to my horror after installing a different app with a similar function/tile I found it suffers from the same problem/limitation.
Before this I could not even comprehend the possibility of there being a clock tile/widget etc. that does not update by the second as any normal clock should.
Are all clock apps and their respective tiles like this ? Is the API behind the tile UI object so primitive that it only allows such castrated functionality, to the point that not even
a clock can work properly ? Overall I found the tile update consistency to be atrocious, at first you expect accurate and relevant updates, but then you realize the whole thing is
a bad gimmick as apps don't update immediately (take 10 min +) and sometimes don't at all it seems, like in case of some messaging/voip apps I tried.
On a Lumia 720 I find that 2 out of 3 apps I have played around with had either very severe flaws, limitations or were just really poorly made.
Often apps just forced quit, bringing me back to the tile screen.
After this experience I am really worried about Microsoft's future in mobile going forward. To say it was sub-par would be an understatement.
The whole thing felt incredibly unrefined, limited, unstable, unreliable/gimmicky in respect to live tiles and just plain poorly made, as if I were using a Symbian phone
in 2010 with its emergency app line up. Not good, I had to go back to an Android. I hope for Microsoft's sake their next 8.1 blue update is nothing short of a miracle,
because that's what they'll need to catch up at this point.
just my own hands-on experience with Windows Phone after using it for 48 hours as my main phone.
I am an ASP.NET dev and was looking forward to finally using a Windows Phone device as my
daily driver, maybe even start developing apps for it etc. Since c# and .NET meta-wise like frameworks are my cup of tea.
I figured the platform must have matured by now to the point where all the basics/primaries
are refined and working without glitches.
Putting aside the fact that the Nokia (Welcome to Windows Phone) migration wizard failed miserably,
my first few hours with a Windows Phone taught me a painful experience immediately, I just wanted to setup some
basic stuff on the start screen like a clock and weather tile. I did this and installed some app which
displayed a large time and date tile as well as weather. Shortly after setting up the basics I arrived to a meeting 20 minutes late because
I found out the damn live tile either does not update at all, or updates every once in a blue moon. So I thought maybe the install botched up
or it was a bad app, to my horror after installing a different app with a similar function/tile I found it suffers from the same problem/limitation.
Before this I could not even comprehend the possibility of there being a clock tile/widget etc. that does not update by the second as any normal clock should.
Are all clock apps and their respective tiles like this ? Is the API behind the tile UI object so primitive that it only allows such castrated functionality, to the point that not even
a clock can work properly ? Overall I found the tile update consistency to be atrocious, at first you expect accurate and relevant updates, but then you realize the whole thing is
a bad gimmick as apps don't update immediately (take 10 min +) and sometimes don't at all it seems, like in case of some messaging/voip apps I tried.
On a Lumia 720 I find that 2 out of 3 apps I have played around with had either very severe flaws, limitations or were just really poorly made.
Often apps just forced quit, bringing me back to the tile screen.
After this experience I am really worried about Microsoft's future in mobile going forward. To say it was sub-par would be an understatement.
The whole thing felt incredibly unrefined, limited, unstable, unreliable/gimmicky in respect to live tiles and just plain poorly made, as if I were using a Symbian phone
in 2010 with its emergency app line up. Not good, I had to go back to an Android. I hope for Microsoft's sake their next 8.1 blue update is nothing short of a miracle,
because that's what they'll need to catch up at this point.
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