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Whilst it can be advantageous when a competitors product suffers from lackluster performance in some aspects in this case this is largely irrelevant because to most customers iPhone is the standard and they will just bare with it until the issues are resolved. They are more interested in the phone as a status symbol/fashion accessory in addition to the apps selection and can get over sub-par services by using 3rd party apps etc.
But it’s not that Windows Phone needs a chance to succeed, I am pretty certain it WILL succeed irrespective. It’s failure to make an impact before had more to with absence of mind-share and lack of apps. Now it will ride on the back of the widest, most device spanning ecosystem in existence and most importantly it will be available on multiple phones on all major carriers.
about 14 hours ago on Why Windows Phones have a chance. 3 recommends
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1. There is no forum called Microsoft Army
2. Is the Verge strictly a mobile phone review site ? This is a tech-site and Microsoft’s share across various IT/Consumer and gaming markets is unparalleled. Hence the busy forum.
about 16 hours ago on It's a Apple & Samsung game and the rest are just watching. 1 reply
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Just going by the online polls that’s all. But realistically all will get scratched to hell if not immediately put in a case.
about 17 hours ago on Scratching and Scuffing on the iPhone 5 1 recommend
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Not only because all new PC’s be there Notebooks, UltraBooks, tablets or convertibles will be communicating the metro design but also because for the first time Windows Phone devices will be be on high-quality devices with outstanding design and found across every carrier in ample numbers.
That and the fact they will be part of a giant, all-device spanning ecosystem kind of makes the comparison between WP7 and WP8 irrelevant. All those Windows PC/Tablets etc. will work best with Windows Phone and MS services.
about 17 hours ago on It's a Apple & Samsung game and the rest are just watching.
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This issue might actually hit Apple hard financial. Since typically Apple users are very concerned with aesthetics and feel of the device, they want it to feel like a well polished jewel and there they get ugly scratched out of the box and the problem is hitting almost 50% of the buyers and will hit anyone else badly if they don’t done a case near immediately.
about 18 hours ago on Scratching and Scuffing on the iPhone 5 2 replies
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Good thing you didn’t forget to include that your country and people are the best and that are overly satisfied living there otherwise there could have been a knock on the door.
about 18 hours ago on Iran launching government-run internet network next year, says Reuters 1 reply
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Things can change in the consumer tech market very rapidly. We must remember that Microsoft is an 800lb gorilla that has not until this forthcoming October had a consumer facing Ultra-Mobile ready ecosystem, OS and no store based digital consumption model.
The market is about to be flooded with hordes of Windows 8 tablets, convertibles, ultrabooks, phones and everything in between. My bet is that we will see the fastest growing app store in history.
As most tech analysts predict Android will get steamrolled by Windows 8 on the tablet\convertible almost immediately as it’s clear that the OEM’s are putting their best effort behind the W8 tabs. The phone side should take off too as it’s just an extension of the said ecosystem on phone.
about 18 hours ago on It's a Apple & Samsung game and the rest are just watching. 1 recommend
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When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep
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Every time she closed her eyes
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about 19 hours ago on It's a Apple & Samsung game and the rest are just watching. 1 reply 1 recommend
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Iranet
I hope the young Iranians who have felt the benefits of the Internet and tasted its fruit will all revolt big time. What a backwards sh..le.
about 19 hours ago on Iran launching government-run internet network next year, says Reuters
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Meh, nonsense. If cloud computing isn’t already saving us power than it certainly will in the near future.
That’s just an inherent outcome of not needing any or little IT infrastructure locally in addition to the data centers using virtualization to maximize and more efficiently utilize the hardware.
As the world leaves behind power guzzling desktop workstations, local servers and majority of routing equipment and adopts low consumption thin clients, tablets in addition to ultrabooks and other ultra-mobile PC’s we should see a great reduction in power usage per the same amount of users.
about 20 hours ago on 30 billion watts and rising: balancing the internet's energy and infrastructure needs 1 recommend
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LoL! AMD sabotaging Windows 8 hahahha
What for? To focus on Linux ?
1 day ago on No Win 8 Drivers for ATI/AMD Graphics Card under the 5XXX 1 reply
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With the exception of Series 9 UltraBooks the rest is all very poorly designed. The ATIV range raises about as much excitement from me as a toilet plunger.
1 day ago on Is the Surface Pro better than the ATIV Smart PC Pro? 1 recommend
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It would be very hard for Samsung to sway me from buying a Surface. I don’t know why and I am probably not the only one but Samsung products give the impression of having an abhorrently generic, uninspired design and whilst more or less durable constructed from cheap, plastic materials. The hardware on the inside is typically impressive, but the device as a whole is lackluster.
1 day ago on Is the Surface Pro better than the ATIV Smart PC Pro? 1 reply
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Then focusing on the small text under the iOS icons.
1 day ago on A bit of a gripe on Windows Phone UI 2 recommends
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Dunno mate, I am not seeing the problem and I am no fanboy. If anything I find the tiles easier to perceive.
1 day ago on A bit of a gripe on Windows Phone UI 2 replies 13 recommends
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Man that was a bad movie.
1 day ago on What is after WP8? 1 reply 1 recommend
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Could people tell me if it’s hard to pick the phone up from a flat surface like a glass table because it’s so thin?
1 day ago on iPhone 5 - If you haven't held it, you don't know. 1 reply 1 recommend
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Does it really matter, version numbers are just semantics. Lime pie or shitcake.
They will call it what they want and break compatibility and or full feature support with older devices as needed, marketing likes to do this with new whole integers/version numbers. All companies do this.
1 day ago on What is after WP8? 1 reply 10 recommends
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Could someone please post a home screen shot with all of the 5 rows of icons populated! As it seems like in the Apple ads people prefer not to keep icons on the last row.
1 day ago on Post your iPhone 5 home screens!!!! 1 reply
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Dunno, looks like some core UI foundations are already set.
1 day ago on Courier derived project Austin app looks like a total fail 1 reply
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No doubt, OneNote MX is great. But why resurrect some courier project and do it in the antiquated manner that they have.
1 day ago on Courier derived project Austin app looks like a total fail
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I have nothing against guidance lines and margins.
It’s the whole execution of the application UI/Interaction that appears like it belongs in the 90’s Microsoft Bob suite.
There so many other more efficient, flexible and interactive ways to implement such an app.
1 day ago on Born from Courier code, Microsoft's Project Austin is a digital journal for Windows 8 1 reply
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I am not denouncing it because the competition does something similar. The concept just looks like shit. As if I am looking at an app made in the 90’s for the Microsoft Bob suite. Everything feels fixed and primitively restricted in movement, snapping and resizing options.
1 day ago on Courier derived project Austin app looks like a total fail 2 replies
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Microsoft DO NOT go skeuomorphic on us!
This application looks like dog droppings. With the cheesy pages, shadows, centered placement and cheese pattern wallpaper behind the pages.
This app looks like a total flop.
1 day ago on Born from Courier code, Microsoft's Project Austin is a digital journal for Windows 8 2 replies 1 recommend
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Recommended Brian_M's comment in MS & Mr Ballmer you are responsible if Nokia Dies a slow and Painful death.
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Sttange I have have ever seen a post concerning the subject of : “its ok for Microsoft to help HTC, with their current financial problems and all.”
But have seen the likes of: “Microsoft is fucking Nokia over by branding HTC 8x is a signature phone”
To which I typically reply that Nokia actually welcomes HTC to the game, just as they did with Samsung and others. Nokia understands that it has little mind-share in the U.S or not of the right kind. It’s confident in its service offerings to outdo any other Windows Phone competition. But the mind-share and customer awareness that comes from having multiple mind-range and hero/signature phones plastering the walls of carrier shops etc. Is priceless.
1 day ago on Make clear somethings about HTC and Nokia 3 replies