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shortcomings of windows phone

by Gennew Oct 13, 2013 9:44AM PDT

one wud tink that since microsoft has been in the business of operating system,that they would ave done an os 4 d phone with little errors but far from it ,their foresight is shabby an at such is rubishing the image of a phone giant like nokia,
1.low ram with lots of widget running automatically,theres no way to put them off.
2.lack of a well defined home screen:i wish like the iphone 5,one can swipe to a home screen n swipe to the live tile
3.unnecessary inbuilt apps
4.mayb d idea was to create an os where apps will do most of the control,no manager,option to save app on mmc absent.really ms should involve nolia in the dev of wp os,we love symbian and it ouldnt b bad to borrow some of its features

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And I thought it was they didn't follow their own playbook?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 13, 2013 10:17AM PDT

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/10/12/3-steve-ballmer-quotes-that-explain-why-microsofts.aspx covers this but our company had to skip Windows Phone for very basic reasons.

1. Draconian app control. It's on our store or get lost.
2. In Windows Mobile days you could pick up Visual Studio, a phone and get going. Windows Phone development was all over the map and our office along with item 1 decided to sit this round out.
Bob

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