I am really not impressed. THAT would be an understatement. Mike Dano of Fiercewireless said it best when he mentioned, “it’s hard to compete with free”. It’s about time too. Initially I gave WM a chance by putting time to learn the OS. Did you see that? I said,”I HAD TO PUT TIME to learn!” And to top it off, it was such a drag trying to figure out where everything should be. It’s like the geeks from Redmond think that everybody would like to debug their own stuff all the time and slowly also painfully figure out where files taken on the camera are stored.
Of course the WM geeks would say, “You just suck coz you have one less chromosome! WM is Cool!”
Well it’s not. It took me exactly 1 minute to figure everything in the iPhone. It’s so simple really. All pictures taken go into – guess? – that’s right! PHOTOS. Not some FILE –> MENU shit. Even the HTC HERO is easier to use though it took me some time to get used to Sense but after a while, you kind of know where to look for what. I won’t go into Symbians because they’re really just plain boring and after a gazillion years of using Nokia phones, I am kind of sick of it. Sony Ericsson? One bad experience years ago that I remembered. 7 steps just to create an SMS. Yep. 7 tormenting steps. One bad experience did it in for me.
Anyway, back to WM. I think Microsoft should just put the poor dejected soul to sleep. Look at WM 6.5, it’s a bastardization of the OSX, Android and others. Now they also have Marketplace? Blimey! How original! After many years of WM bullshit, it’s about time the people get what they want.
User friendliness. Simple isn’t it? One can only imagine how a company as hi tech and great as Microsoft miss such a simple basic need. Previously, the positioned WM as an executive / business OS that can blend seamlessly with your Windows desktop. Of course people bought all that crap for years. I thought it was really a defensive move by Microsoft simply because they knew WM is clunky and UN-user friendly. So what is the best way to continue to sell and push for this? Strike fear into the minds of consumers and corporate executives of course! Make them fear of losing precious data simply because anything other than WM phones may cause brain damage.
Bah. I tried it and I hate it. Next…
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