Time to ditch Windows phones?

[SauRoNZA]

This is personal tech, and personally I find the Apple brand unattractive ... too brash, gauche, and IYF flamboi, though they make marvellous phones. As a brand it rubs me up the wrong way, and raises all my anti-brand hackles ... I won't wear clothing with even the tiniest visible label, brand or slogan; I tell car dealerships to remove their stickers from my cars; I generally dislike branded corporate clothing, even for my own company, so I really don't like in-your-face loud brands, and Apple is one. Etc, etc.

But you like Microsoft?

- Says Microsoft 3 times on the box and just in case you didn't know also twice on the phone itself.

- A little more classy but only marginally so.

This on the other hand is an iPhone box...

And this another...

Not sure where you see the brash, in-your-face and loud branding?

https://www.apple.com/ - Pretty much black and white website with some details and Apple isn't mentioned once in the body of the page.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us - First they try and force their ****ty browser on me with a drop down that takes up 10% of my screen real estate. Then they mention their brand three times before I even scroll and another 4 times if I do.

So yeah subtlety goes Apple is absolutely kind and Google is actually not far behind...while Microsoft falls almost perfectly inside your statement that you claim to be the opposite.

Normally I tend to agree with you on most things but this statement seems very biased...more so considering you used to work for them.

Please do enlighten me how Apple is loud and in your face?

 

[Arthur]

Hehe.

Branding is not just the writing on the box or device. That's almost beside the point.

It's the brand persona. The lifestyle-image messages that the brand encapsulates and propagates.

Sorry for not making that clearer.

And it's not that I'm all excited by the Microsoft brand, or brand persona. It's not exciting at all. In fact, it's rather dull and dated, staid and more stuffed than stuffy. None of that excites me one bit.

One attraction of the their mobile OS is that it's soo minority, with such a miniscule (ie irrelevant) marketshare that brand isn't really a factor. Also, it's a damn slick and eminently workable mobile OS that does most things I need it to do. And it does Exchange nicely, which is important for my 4 corporate mailboxes and multiple calendars and contacts lists.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Hehe.

Branding is not just the writing on the box or device. That's almost beside the point.

It's the brand persona. The lifestyle-image messages that the brand encapsulates and propagates.

Sorry for not making that clearer.

And it's not that I'm all excited by the Microsoft brand, or brand persona. It's not exciting at all. In fact, it's rather dull and dated, staid and more stuffed than stuffy. None of that excites me one bit.

One attraction of the their mobile OS is that it's soo minority, with such a miniscule (ie irrelevant) marketshare that brand isn't really a factor. Also, it's a damn slick and eminently workable mobile OS that does most things I need it to do. And it does Exchange nicely, which is important for my 4 corporate mailboxes and multiple calendars and contacts lists.

No I realise it's not just what's on the box which is why I also pointed to the website as other things are a little harder to put a finger on.

And I do like their Mobile OS and am really sad it didn't make it. It's a nice middleground between between the closed iOS and wide open Android which I can't stand.

Also a genius move by Microsoft in both mobile and desktop OS is letting you use Corporate and Personal accounts side by side.

If only Google supported Windows Mobile (I like their services, not their OS) I probably would still be using it.

 

[p51mustang]

If only there was a way to pin (HereWeGo) destinations to the home screen on Android, like with Maps on the Windows start screen.

 

[backstreetboy]

Just ask James Damore:

*snip*

Ah that guy Sundar Pichai fired. I applaud Sundar that he acted in a clear and swift manner.

If only there was a way to pin (HereWeGo) destinations to the home screen on Android, like with Maps on the Windows start screen.

You can with Google Maps.

 

[Arthur]

I appload Sundar that he acted in a clear and swift manner.

If Sundar was an app I certainly wouldn't appload. Sanity requires an uninstall.

 

[p51mustang]

You can with Google Maps.

Saw that, but it's not the same.

I go to different addresses every day, so I normally just pin before the trip and delete on my return home.

Secondly, I tried to that on my backup Android 6.01 device and could not find the widget. Ah well ...

 

[VC-1]

These network franchise employees really have zero knowledge of any Windows 10 Mobile OS.

The one lady at a Chatz Cellular Tygervalley states that when a new SIM is inserted, the setup is not automatically network configured but it has to be manually done with a complicated setup process - what a joke!!!!

No wonder the Android/ios have higher sales

 

[Exaelea]

Mtn sends the info to Windows 10 phones when ya insert their sim.. even the older 8.1 phones. ( 950xl / 640 lte / 435 )

Although it was sent after the phone(s) configured itself for MTN when windows picked up its on MTN