Arthur
Honorary Master
Jeepers, I'm still seething at the stooopidity of this article. Forgive me for sounding off.
Nokia knew every step and detail before they bet the shop on WP. They knew in detail what the WP7 to WP8 transition entailed. And the WP8 to WP9 rev, by the way. After all, they have to engineer the blerrie phones, and that's not just blowing a blerrie ROM downloaded last night from Redmond. There's very serious detailed engineering of hardware and software, with systems disciplines most journos can't even fantasize about, apparently. Nokia knows future plans down to chipsets still on the drawing board, with software plans for exploitation and support, to very great detail. And for all the componentry, devices, subsystems, down to boggling detail one can scarcely imagine. Nokia's component and subsystem orders and delivery schedules from dozens of suppliers for 2014 are already done in detail, or do these people think you just drop an email and it all comes together in a week? The world just doesn't work like that.
Neither Microsoft nor Nokia could wait two years for WP8, which is a re-engineering so mammoth most people still don't get it despite MS being quite clear. Hence WP7. By 2010 enough WinRTP API's had been defined for a first release to at least get a placeholder phone OS out there, with enough functionality to do the main phone jobs. They knew in 2010 that WP8 is when the engine changes to the same one as in servers, desktops, and tablets, with common services - and that is a HUGE issue not many journalists seem to have grasped the import of (perhaps not surprisingly). By the way, these things are not done overnight - it took Android 4 years to even get to a semi-functional first release, for pete's sake (before and after Google bought the company), and even after release it took a year for them to get a soft keyboard.
Nokia is not "hamstrung". They're grateful for a way forward, because it gets them into a platform that has immense promise in their own judgment, one they believe is worth risking the whole multi-billion euro company on. It's not a decision taken in darkness and ignorance.
And WP7 users should not feel schnaaid. If they do it's because their expectations were wrongly set by the same sort of shoddy journalism as the OP article - it doesn't come from Microsoft or Nokia (find me a single first-hand quote that says anything other than what we have). Yes, there are column-kilometres of speculations and opinions by all sorts of self-appointed experts, and the vendors can't be held to the speculations of the Press. WP7 users' phones work as advertised. I have a WP7 phone. I don't feel hamstrung or betrayed or let down in the least.
But I do feel immensely chagrined by stupid articles like this. That's what hamstrings us.
Nokia knew every step and detail before they bet the shop on WP. They knew in detail what the WP7 to WP8 transition entailed. And the WP8 to WP9 rev, by the way. After all, they have to engineer the blerrie phones, and that's not just blowing a blerrie ROM downloaded last night from Redmond. There's very serious detailed engineering of hardware and software, with systems disciplines most journos can't even fantasize about, apparently. Nokia knows future plans down to chipsets still on the drawing board, with software plans for exploitation and support, to very great detail. And for all the componentry, devices, subsystems, down to boggling detail one can scarcely imagine. Nokia's component and subsystem orders and delivery schedules from dozens of suppliers for 2014 are already done in detail, or do these people think you just drop an email and it all comes together in a week? The world just doesn't work like that.
Neither Microsoft nor Nokia could wait two years for WP8, which is a re-engineering so mammoth most people still don't get it despite MS being quite clear. Hence WP7. By 2010 enough WinRTP API's had been defined for a first release to at least get a placeholder phone OS out there, with enough functionality to do the main phone jobs. They knew in 2010 that WP8 is when the engine changes to the same one as in servers, desktops, and tablets, with common services - and that is a HUGE issue not many journalists seem to have grasped the import of (perhaps not surprisingly). By the way, these things are not done overnight - it took Android 4 years to even get to a semi-functional first release, for pete's sake (before and after Google bought the company), and even after release it took a year for them to get a soft keyboard.
Nokia is not "hamstrung". They're grateful for a way forward, because it gets them into a platform that has immense promise in their own judgment, one they believe is worth risking the whole multi-billion euro company on. It's not a decision taken in darkness and ignorance.
And WP7 users should not feel schnaaid. If they do it's because their expectations were wrongly set by the same sort of shoddy journalism as the OP article - it doesn't come from Microsoft or Nokia (find me a single first-hand quote that says anything other than what we have). Yes, there are column-kilometres of speculations and opinions by all sorts of self-appointed experts, and the vendors can't be held to the speculations of the Press. WP7 users' phones work as advertised. I have a WP7 phone. I don't feel hamstrung or betrayed or let down in the least.
But I do feel immensely chagrined by stupid articles like this. That's what hamstrings us.
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