Windows Phone - Dead man walking

[Darrin]

As someone who has owned an iPhone and an Android phone, please leave me alone with my Nokia Windows phone!  It hasn't crashed yet, which is a lot more than I can say about the ****ing Motorola droid phone I had before it, it integrates well with my personal and company emails, I have all the office tools I need, it syncs with my car (and every rental car I've used) and the battery life is good.  I even like the main display with the big, square icons (although my Windows 8 PC looks and feels like Windows 7 thanks to Classic Shell).

[Darrin]

Its not Android fault LG(ay) makes bad hardware....

My Droid Motorola did the same thing.  Very frustrating when you're driving around and moving between masts.  What I really hated was that it had a "send us an error report" feature and when I clicked on it, it would say "This feature has been disabled".  I took this to mean that AT&T/Motorola/Google didn't give a crap if there was a bug.  Add to that the phones ability to lock up or shut itself off for no reason... or even refuse to turn back on until I sacrificed a chicken to Lucifer and his minions, it wasn't a pleasant experience.  

[Darrin]

@Matt3K:  I use mine for work so reliability comes top of the list for me.  I don't play games, I don't use it as an MP3 player.  I have no use for iTunes and install very few apps.  I guess the Skydrive could take care of the storage issues, but I like to keep my data off the cloud.

[Darrin]

@ SysAdmin:

Come back to us when Micro$oft file Chapter 13.  They seem to make money somehow.  

[Darrin]

@Darrin

I never said they are going out of business anytime soon. They do have a habit of killing off products that bleed money from the company though like Zune, Kin Phone, MSN TV,  Caligari Truespace, Courier, MS Money, Encarta, Etc. Sometimes they get things right, TriCaster works fine running on Windows 7 for example.

True, but I'm guessing that they would be happy to make little or no money from Windows on phones as it would lock people into Windows on their home PCs.  I'm sure a lot of people look at their iPhones and wonder what OSX would be like.

I still look after my accounts using MS Money and it was one of the first things I installed in my Win8 laptop.  I'd be lost without it.

[Darrin]

You could probably say that about almost any large company if you dig deep enough.  However, power to the customer that places ethics into his purchasing equation.  Unfortunately, most of us will never know who the really evil companies are because most of them can cover their tracks.  Business is war, and I wouldn't get anywhere by encouraging companies to use my competitors (Mind you, I've never sent hit men after my competitors... yet).  

[Darrin]

@Darrin

I think you would be hard pressed to find any company that has done as much damage to the industry as MS unless you go all the way back to Standard Oil. Also, what BP did a few years back off the coast of Florida was pretty horrible.

What did Standard Oil do to the smart phone industry?

Also, don't just do the US Government thing and just blame BP.  Try extending that to the US companies involved too.  There's more to that story than the media lets on.