101 reasons to love Windows Phone

[hbarcellos]

With Android and iOS out there isn't WM sort of late to the party?

No. We're living 1984 again. iOS is the Mac and Microsoft will prevail again. Jobs cant return now.
Seeing M$ plans I already had that vision for quite a while. Recently several analysts are also supporting it.

In 1 year from now, you'll see more smartphones with Windows than with Android...

[hbarcellos]

And by XBOX, they mean TV. Instead of trying to build their own hardware like Apple. Can you imagine the cost of an Apple TV set in Brazil???

Take a look at this:

http://www.gsmarena.com/laugh_time_idc_says_wp_and_blackberry_will_overtake_ios-news-4357.php

Jobs was a game changer, but unable to keep-up on the long term.

[hbarcellos]

WP7 is my 2nd favorite mobile OS. The 1st place going to WebOS.

Android sucks, it's very fragmented and you're left to the mercy of individual manufacturers for updates and support.

Apple I have no interest in.

I was a huge fan of Palm, but unfortunately, not a single WebOS device was available in my country. Hopefully, now that's supposedly open-source, my last hope is to expect some Chinese tablets with it.

By the way, take a look at this link:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-inside-story-pre-postmortem

I found it very interesting.

[hbarcellos]

I'm not sure. They have a different approach to tablets, pcs and phones.
They say, tablets are pcs and smartphones are smartphones.
So, It's windows 8 for tablet&PC (those notebooks with detachable touch screen) and windows 8 phone for smartphones.

But, take a look at this:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/05/microsoft-smartglass-hands-on/

I think this is what you want.

[hbarcellos]

Android is close to cracking a million activations a day. It's hard to fathom how windows mobile is going to overtake that.

How many examples do you need to understand that past performance does not guarantee future results?

[hbarcellos]

I was willing to get a Lumia 900 here as well, but, two things are still preventing me:
* Not available here (Damn Country)
* Will probably be outdated as soon as windows phone 8 comes out

After a while, I think we'll have a lot of models from several different manufacters.
Personally I would be interested in a Galaxy SIII HW or a Galaxy Note HW or a Nokia Lumia X 5" all running Windows Mobile.

Besides all that, Microsoft tools for developers are the best ones among them all, being XCode 2nd and very far away: Android...

[hbarcellos]

Sarcasm or stupidity? I can't decide.

Anyway, MS plans are nowhere, which is exactly where they're going.  Of course there won't be more phones with Windows than Android in 1 year, nor in 2 years, not even in 5 years.

Can you base your arguments on something before calling me stupid?
For me, a stupid person is the one who can't see that there are several other views, interpretations and analysis of the same data with different conclusions.
Your analysis is childish and superficial.

And, if you want to call me stupid again, make sure to, at least, skype me in a Video Call and say it looking at me.
Here's my ID: hbarcellos

[hbarcellos]

Well, I was even called "Stupid", right?
Looks like more analysts are becoming "Stupid". Even Gizmodo.

http://gizmodo.com/5919428/what-is-the-microsoft-surface
http://gizmodo.com/5919459/hands-on-with-microsoft-surface-for-windows-rt

So. Yes. It's awesome. It's going to be fantastic. Google had better step things up at IO, because this Windows RT tablet is far more impressive than any shipping Android tablet I've ever seen. It's a clear rival to the iPad. Or at least, so it seems. We'll see. Can't wait for Fall.

Sooo, stupid!!!

It's a super solid device and if Microsoft can deliver what it demoed, the iPad finally has a real competitor and Android has a big ******* problem.

[hbarcellos]

ohhh, not to mention that the Ivy Bridge version might run Winuae. Which you could use with your finger.

I would strongly suggest MorphOS and AROS team to focus on porting their systems (full support including wifi) to one of the two versions of the tablet...

[hbarcellos]

Hahaha, are you serious. Emulate a computer with a full keyboard, mouse, and joystick, on a touch screen? Tablets and smartphones suck bad enough for emulating simple game consoles (it's one of the chief complaints I hear even from my tablet-evangelist coworkers.) It's not like there's something magical about Ivy Bridge that's going to make it more usable than it is on Android.

Using Workbench emulated with Winuae with a touch screen could be cool.
I agree with the touch controls for games that were not designed for it.
Floating d-pads & buttons are really horrible. Speedball II at the iPhone is kind-of-cool, but...

Absolutely nothing related with Windows vs Android.

and, for your information, I don't even like Laptops! I'm a desktop guy: Big Box, Big Monitors, Large Keyboard, Mouse and etc...

...But I can see myself using that surface over iPads. Never considered an Android tablet.
I have my Desktop and several laptops to play with different operating systems.

For productivity, nothing beats Windows.

[hbarcellos]

Not to mention that developer support was always one of Microsoft's strongest points.
Just compare Visual Studio, XNA and etc... with XCODE. Not to mention all the JAVA (yuck) Android stuff.

[hbarcellos]

Duce, as Voltaire once said,

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Let's wait a couple of years, and, by the time MorphOS get Wifi support on the Powerbook, we'll see who was right about it.

[hbarcellos]

Duce, as Voltaire once said,

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Let's wait a couple of years, and, by the time MorphOS get Wifi support on the Powerbook, we'll see who was right about it.