Microsoft working on Windows phone SMS bug

Hands up anyone that find this surprising?

None.... wow who would have guessed :)
 
Hands up anyone that find this surprising?

None.... wow who would have guessed :)

This sort of thing is why Windows dominates on the PC, and nowhere else
(for example: would anyone board a plane if they were told that its systems were made by Microsoft?)
 
This sort of thing is why Windows dominates on the PC, and nowhere else
(for example: would anyone board a plane if they were told that its systems were made by Microsoft?)

Well to be fair it could happen to almost any computing device but yeah.

I see this bug in the following light if it was on other phones:
Android: Developers would mod it and add other functionality to it.
iOS: would call it a feature and brag that other phones cant do it.
Blackberry: users would go "what the hell is a SMS?"
WebOS: would go who cares no one use the OS anyway.
Symbian: would ignore it and maybe fix it in a patch 3 years from now.
 
Well to be fair it could happen to almost any computing device but yeah.

I see this bug in the following light if it was on other phones:
Android: Developers would mod it and add other functionality to it.
iOS: would call it a feature and brag that other phones cant do it.
Blackberry: users would go "what the hell is a SMS?"
WebOS: would go who cares no one use the OS anyway.
Symbian: would ignore it and maybe fix it in a patch 3 years from now.

This is most definitely one of the funnies responses I have read.
 
This sort of thing is why Windows dominates on the PC, and nowhere else
(for example: would anyone board a plane if they were told that its systems were made by Microsoft?)

I would, but that's cos I don't fear instant death. :D
 
Its a thread about a bug, I mentioned another bug. Seems related to me.

Maybe slightly, but the article was about a bug effecting the whole operating system, while yours is a single device.
 
Maybe slightly, but the article was about a bug effecting the whole operating system, while yours is a single device.

Sadly, this is the only conversation going on in the WP7 part of the forum.
For a platform with such low market share, its a bad sign that all we can talk about are bugs.
 
Sadly, this is the only conversation going on in the WP7 part of the forum.
For a platform with such low market share, its a bad sign that all we can talk about are bugs.
Yip - we have a shockingly low amount of WP7's here in SA. And until nokia actually decides to push phones here that is not going to change. Although, try looking around the interwebs - more and more people are starting to like the platform which is good.
 
Yip - we have a shockingly low amount of WP7's here in SA. And until nokia actually decides to push phones here that is not going to change. Although, try looking around the interwebs - more and more people are starting to like the platform which is good.

Part of the problem is that WP7 is in a catch 22 right now regarding the amount of apps available.
A lot of consumers will compare it to the other 2 that are far ahead, and decide to go with iPhone or Android.
Developers will look at the low number of users, and the low consumer interest in WP7 and either not bother porting their app, or porting it later.
And I still haven't seen any "killer app" that isn't available anywhere else.

That said, I don't think what happens in SA will really matter to MS or Nokia. This is a country of followers, not leaders. They will be late to the party, after the world has decided whether or not it wants WP7. Right now they are all Blackberry addicts - years after Blackberry became popular everywhere else.

They're slowly catching on to Android/iPhone now.
I expect those two to dominate once everyone gets over Blackberry here,
with possibly WP7 joining in later if the rest of the world gets interested in it first.
 
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