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Re: 101 reasons to love Windows Phone
« on: June 14, 2012, 09:15:01 PM »
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Re: 101 reasons to love Windows Phone
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2012, 09:15:35 PM »
I honestly don't think feature phones are going away any time soon; there's a lot of people out there (myself included) who don't need or want a smartphone and are entirely satisfied with a cheaper flip-phone that places and receives calls and (if we want to get really advanced) stores phone numbers. On a smartphone, that capability is always at least one extra click away (unless they just start putting a number pad on the home screen.) That's going to confuse Granny and irritate the hell out of the rest of us, especially considering we'd be paying extra for the privilege of putting more steps between us and our goal.

Smartphones are no longer a luxury item, so it's not like people who don't have one can't afford one (generally speaking.) Therefore, I can't see any reason that people who don't have one are suddenly going to get one, unless every manufacturer out there can get all the others to agree to suddenly stop producing the phones that are still selling in hopes of forcing people to upgrade to more expensive phones - and all it takes is one manufacturer breaking that agreement to bring the whole thing crashing down and leave them right where they are now, selling iOS and Android phones to the people who want them and feature phones to everybody else.
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Re: 101 reasons to love Windows Phone
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2012, 05:35:11 PM »
Quote from: hbarcellos;696984
ohhh, not to mention that the Ivy Bridge version might run Winuae. Which you could use with your finger.
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.

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People also called the Zune, the Kin, and various other MS hardware devices "fantastic" and "revolutionary", lol. Listening to tech bloggers give praise to devices and actually putting stock into it is absolutely insane. I lost interest in the MS press event today when the words "also can use a touch pen/stylus!". These are the same people that claimed the Newton would revolutionize the free world.
Not to mention the same people that were drooling over Microsoft's early ideas of OMG SOME DAY YOU CAN HAVE A TABLE THAT'S A COMPUTER, or that stupid kinetic desktop demo where having your icons bump into each other and knock each other over was somehow revolutionary. Sound judges of practical value, they ain't.
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Re: 101 reasons to love Windows Phone
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2012, 12:56:52 AM »
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And you have no idea how different the release version will be.
We're how close to release, now? And they've already done two preview releases, so it's not like they haven't had ample time to get the message that nobody wants this, and they've just announced their new tablet for their new tablet OS. Do you really think that between now and (supposedly late July) they're suddenly going to reverse their stance and start listening to the naysayers?
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