Windows Phone :(
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@IRJ said:
@MattSpeller said:
@IRJ said:
they have potential or they are improving with each version.
They have just insane potential to tie into AD and Group Policy to produce a phone with fully integrated MDM, not to mention easy to administer and you could use powershell to do all sorts of awesome stuff...
I just don't know why they've ... well, frankly screwed the pooch for so long.
Sure, but their base OS has to be amazing first. We are long way off from that. They need to do more than sell tech people. The majority of users are non-tech and will surely prefer an iphone or android device.
Burns my biscuits that they haven't figured out a good solid OS for these little devices. Such an opportunity to learn from all their mistakes building Windows!
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You can't expect a single company to be focused enough to do everything Microsoft does.
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@IRJ said:
My Samsung Note Edge got water damage over the weekend so I have been using a Nokia Lumina 521. I understand that it is a cheap Windows Phone so I am not dinging it on performance. The OS itself is what sucks. I am running Windows 8.1 on it.
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The tiles suck. There is a reason people like icons vs. tiles. Microsoft should know better since people are obsessed with desktop icons and icons are the mainstream on Android and iOS. You might think the tiles look pretty, but they suck and just cause you to do more scrolling.
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No apps. I knew this before i even tried the Windows Phone, but I didn't expect the app selection to be so poor. I am lucky to find 10% of my android apps. It makes everything more difficult when it comes to managing VPS servers, various email accounts, cloudflare, and alot of other apps that make administration easy.
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Internet Explorer... No explanation needed. I am sure there are other browsers, but IE is terrible.
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Ineffecient scrolling. When I go through a list of apps, I get a vertical list of A-Z apps. I can scroll through Android and iOS much faster because I may have A-D on the same screen, and if I want to get to R, I only have to quickly scroll 3 or 4 pages. On Windows I have to scroll pretty far down. It only takes an extra second, but that matters in the long term.
1 - Tiles do something for many apps. You can stack and folder the non live tiles to create more room. My home screen doesn't scroll because I've organized it this way.
2 - Pretty much
3 - I've not had much issue with IE on the phone
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@Kelly said:
1 - Tiles do something for many apps. You can stack and folder the non live tiles to create more room. My home screen doesn't scroll because I've organized it this way.
Do "something", yes. When I had a Windows phone, not a single one did anything useful. All they did was get in the way.
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@Kelly said:
4 - You can tap a letter header to jump to a particular section of your apps list.
I think he knew that. When I agreed that the scrolling was inefficient, that was assuming the letter thing. Having to know ever app by name is another annoyance. On my iPhone everything is so quick and easy to get to. Humans, most of them anyway, deal with images far better than names. Two screens of icons and I get to everything that I need.
Windows Phone makes the same mistake that their do on the desktop... assuming that I want to memorize the proper names and search for every app that I use rather than just selecting it. It's the same interface problems going from one to the other. Same things that made Metro so unusable.
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When I had my Windows Phone there were tons and tons of apps. All malware, of course, but the volume of them was insane.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Kelly said:
1 - Tiles do something for many apps. You can stack and folder the non live tiles to create more room. My home screen doesn't scroll because I've organized it this way.
Do "something", yes. When I had a Windows phone, not a single one did anything useful. All they did was get in the way.
How did they get in the way any more than an icon for email gets in the way on droid or iOS?
If you want them smaller so you don't have to scroll - that's always an option too.
I agree most of the live tiles are pretty stupid - I'm never going to watch my email or text tile to see the messages flip by... I'm just going to open those apps. But the fact that it does that does not get in my way.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Windows Phone makes the same mistake that their do on the desktop... assuming that I want to memorize the proper names and search for every app that I use rather than just selecting it.
This is a great feature of Gnome 3. You can either type the name of the app or something related to it and it is usually right.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Two screens of icons and I get to everything that I need.
Then why isn't what he wants just pinned to the screen? problem solved.
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@Dashrender said:
How did they get in the way any more than an icon for email gets in the way on droid or iOS?
Many times the size.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Two screens of icons and I get to everything that I need.
Then why isn't what he wants just pinned to the screen? problem solved.
because you get so much less per screen, it's many screens for the same thing.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Windows Phone makes the same mistake that their do on the desktop... assuming that I want to memorize the proper names and search for every app that I use rather than just selecting it.
This is a great feature of Gnome 3. You can either type the name of the app or something related to it and it is usually right.
Yup, I use that a lot. It's great when I know what I am looking for. But I love the contextual menu for the rest of the time, too.
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@JaredBusch said:
@IRJ said:
@johnhooks said:
@wirestyle22 said:
@johnhooks said:
@wirestyle22 said:
@johnhooks said:
@IRJ said:
@johnhooks said:
Internet Explorer... No explanation needed. I am sure there are other browsers, but IE is terrible.
Last I heard Opera was the only one that wasn't based on IE. I think even that squirrel browser or whatever it's called is based on IE. So really IE is your only option, and I think the phone version is worse than the desktop version if that's possible.
Is it worse than the Windows 8 Metro version? LOL
It might be a tie. It's so bad. That was probably the biggest reason I couldn't stand using my Windows phone other than the lack of apps.
And the apps that do exist look like they were made by high schoolers.
I'd make crappy apps for college credit to be fair
I don't think it's actually made by them that's the problem. If it was, that would be fine.
You would think MS would pay developers to develop on their platform since they're this far behind. Instead of mulling the idea of buying Slack for $8 billion, get people to use the junk you already have.
but can you actually prove it wasn't made by highschoolers?
That's impossible, but a quick glance through shows a lot are by companies.
Either way, the apps are really bad...
@Dashrender is one of our local WP die hard users.. Surprised he has avoided this thread.
Me too! I've just seen the thread
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@IRJ said:
My Samsung Note Edge got water damage over the weekend so I have been using a Nokia Lumina 521. I understand that it is a cheap Windows Phone so I am not dinging it on performance. The OS itself is what sucks. I am running Windows 8.1 on it.
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The tiles suck. There is a reason people like icons vs. tiles. Microsoft should know better since people are obsessed with desktop icons and icons are the mainstream on Android and iOS. You might think the tiles look pretty, but they suck and just cause you to do more scrolling.
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No apps. I knew this before i even tried the Windows Phone, but I didn't expect the app selection to be so poor. I am lucky to find 10% of my android apps. It makes everything more difficult when it comes to managing VPS servers, various email accounts, cloudflare, and alot of other apps that make administration easy.
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Internet Explorer... No explanation needed. I am sure there are other browsers, but IE is terrible.
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Ineffecient scrolling. When I go through a list of apps, I get a vertical list of A-Z apps. I can scroll through Android and iOS much faster because I may have A-D on the same screen, and if I want to get to R, I only have to quickly scroll 3 or 4 pages. On Windows I have to scroll pretty far down. It only takes an extra second, but that matters in the long term.
IMO Windows Phone is the better hardware at the lower price point.
You cannot get a decent Android phone for <$200AUD but the Lumia 640 LTE is quite the catch at <$180 AUD as it's hardware craps all over anything Android up to $300 AUD.People cry (and cry and cry and cry) about the Apps, yes it's an issue but I use my phone primarily as a phone and utilise very few apps. So this isn't something that I really care about.
Tiles are a very personal choice. It's nice that the sizes can be adjusted and the "live" function can be turned off. I still prefer Android Widgets but have found them to be resource killers.
Internet Explorer is what you expect from IE. Don't bother looking for a different browser. They are all just IE with a new coat of paint and the furniture shifted. Believe it or not, IE is far more stable than the highly rated UC Browser (when I last used it anyway).
Unless you know the name of the app or the grouping of the setting, then it's much scroll.
I'd like to see groupings but that's, I guess, why there is the option to create folders on the start screen -
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@nadnerB said:
People cry (and cry and cry and cry) about the Apps, yes it's an issue but I use my phone primarily as a phone and utilise very few apps. So this isn't something that I really care about.
Same here, I have very few apps. But the few that I have Windows Phone did not have. But while searching for them to see if they were there, dozens of malware pretenders for each one was certainly available. My concern is less with the absence of what is needed but the inability to discern when it is real or not.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
People cry (and cry and cry and cry) about the Apps, yes it's an issue but I use my phone primarily as a phone and utilise very few apps. So this isn't something that I really care about.
Same here, I have very few apps. But the few that I have Windows Phone did not have. But while searching for them to see if they were there, dozens of malware pretenders for each one was certainly available. My concern is less with the absence of what is needed but the inability to discern when it is real or not.
It is very hard to tell. I never use Instagram, but I have an account. It's still in beta on WP. It's been in beta for like 2 years. There is a developer named Rudy Huyn who makes some cool WP apps. It's pretty sad when his Instagram replacement app is better than the **actual **one developed by Instagram.
My whole point is that this makes it even harder to distinguish between real and fake apps. The main app companies aren't making apps, so either third party companies or individuals are doing it. But, now you have to figure out whether the third party app is legit or it's some kind of junkware.
I've tried and can't switch back. Things I use almost daily and a little less frequently just don't exist on there.
Alfresco, Amazon Prime Music, Amazon Cloud Drive/Photos, bank apps, Chrome, SSH tools, Wave, ZeroTier, Android (or Apple) Pay, Google Authenticator (there are some apps, but again not by Google and I don't trust third party apps for that function), and more.
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@johnhooks said:
My whole point is that this makes it even harder to distinguish between real and fake apps. The main app companies aren't making apps, so either third party companies or individuals are doing it. But, now you have to figure out whether the third party app is legit or it's some kind of junkware.
The real problem is the app store. Apple actively ensures that fakes aren't allowed. Tricking people with fake malware is carefully controlled. Plus the real apps are easy to find.
Windows has the "lock down" of the Apple store without the protections. But it lacks the wide open protections that exist in the normal computer world where you go to the website for the real company and get the app or the link at least from them directly. With Windows, even learning about an app there is no way to ensure that you are getting the real thing. Microsoft themselves set you up for malware and failure while blocking the tools we would normally use to protect ourselves. It's the worst of both worlds.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
People cry (and cry and cry and cry) about the Apps, yes it's an issue but I use my phone primarily as a phone and utilise very few apps. So this isn't something that I really care about.
Same here, I have very few apps. But the few that I have Windows Phone did not have. But while searching for them to see if they were there, dozens of malware pretenders for each one was certainly available. My concern is less with the absence of what is needed but the inability to discern when it is real or not.
This is definitely a huge problem. I don't use iPhone so I don't know if they suffer this problem, but the Google Play store does suffer it to a lesser degree.
