"Windows Phone 7 a 'disaster'"
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"No caveats now: Windows Phone 7 is a waste of time and money. It's a platform that no carrier, device maker, developer, or user should bother with. Microsoft should kill it before it ships and admit that it's out of the mobile game for good. It is supposed to ship around Christmas 2010, but anyone who gets one will prefer a lump of coal. I really mean that."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...disaster-claim
What with even Steve Ballmer admitting Win Mobile 6.x was a whole generation behind it looks like it could be the end of windows smartphones?
I guess with the massive amount of cash they have you could drive up market share with subsidised handsets, but the platform is a long long way behind before its started
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Lets put this in context, it came out from someone who hasn't had hands on, it came out from someone who is an Apple Lover, on the day that Apple were having to try and admit they messed up a design on a £500+ phone.
To balance it out, how about a actual review, from someone who say has actually seen and used one?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/w...depth-preview/
Yes MS should be ashamed for no multitasking, copy and paste, or allowing non-app store apps. But this piece is just pure BS. Well done for the Guardian for proving why everyone who reads their paper are the kind that are too dumb to realise its overtly (and honestly so) partisan. Evidently this extends beyond just politics.
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Well you cant really call the guardian any more biased politically than the rest of the papers, they all obviously have their own agendas. Would you say news international readers are too dumb to realise Murdochs slant also?
Tech wise they do seem to have a special relationship with apple however..
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No because the people who read the Sun know their not above average intellect, they don't pretend, there is no pretence. The amount of people who read the grionaid who think that it is non-partisan, when its horrifically bias, to the point it just doesn't cover certain news worthy items. Plenty of papers do a better job, even the Metro.
Why should we expect them to extend any better to tech? At least Brooker when writing for them is honest.
The editor should be ashamed for not reading this one thou, its obviously un-substantiated, when there are people like engadget who have had hands on!
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TheAnimus
The editor should be ashamed for not reading this one thou, its obviously un-substantiated, when there are people like engadget who have had hands on!
Well there WAS a round up, from the same writer, yesterday saying it seems on the whole very good
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...hone-7-preview
We are trying to get a dev device at work for making apps on as I have experience with WM and it would go well with the potential ipad/pod/phone and possibly android dev for some of the services offered
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The only thing I know is that if the Windows Mobile 7 really is crap, everyone is gonna call it and we won't have people similar in the Apple camp trying to justify such crap (e.g. multitasking issue in the iPhones and no camera issue in the iPad).
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The interesting thing about win 7, is they have some of the 'multi-tasking' esk features, you can have a cloud style service push a notification, this should be good for plenty of use cases, but for things like mp3 players, or a turn by turn navigation, its just not going to cut the mustard, you want to do that with the device, that's all it is doing.... for now...
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TheAnimus
No because the people who read the Sun know their not above average intellect, they don't pretend, there is no pretence. The amount of people who read the grionaid who think that it is non-partisan, when its horrifically bias, to the point it just doesn't cover certain news worthy items. Plenty of papers do a better job, even the Metro.
Why should we expect them to extend any better to tech? At least Brooker when writing for them is honest.
The editor should be ashamed for not reading this one thou, its obviously un-substantiated, when there are people like engadget who have had hands on!
Is this some kind of joke? Or are you the type who get upset at the 'liberal elite' who run our media, that would kinda explain the drivel you have written, all the papers miss stories, ALL
Do you know who owns the Metro BTW, Ive got a feeling they also publish your paper of choice
But anyway why don't you provide links to "news worthy" stories the metro has covered and the guardian hasn't?
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I'm happy with 6.5.3 tbh, Custom ROMs and the Sence interface have done a pretty good job of covering up WM as a whole..
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Honest
Is this some kind of joke? Or are you the type who get upset at the 'liberal elite' who run our media, that would kinda explain the drivel you have written, all the papers miss stories, ALL
Er, no, this is not what I said.
Today, I am insulting a specific demographic, those who read a certain paper.
Why? Because I personally feel they should know better.
Someone who reads the mirror, or the socialist worker is probably not going to read anything else put forward for them, they are seeking a publication which will help back up their ideals. This is honest and fair enough.
Someone who reads the Daily Mail is probably a little bit racist and scared by any change. They might well be the wife of someone who is capable of reading things other than aids ridden black asylum seekers who don't speak english having 15 children living in houses that where going to be given to accommodate armed forces heroes, but again little hope. The thing is, those publications don't pretend to be anything other than what they are.
The sun? Well its more entertainment, useful at election time to dictate how you should vote to better serve rupert. But its incredibly honest about this fact.
The Torygraph? It knows that most of its readers already are going to vote one way, but it also knows it can't insult them as much as The Times would, as thats where half its readership came from after the murdock purchase. But even with that, the paper is more aligned to the ideals of small government, and is plenty unfriendly to its party.
The Guardian thou, it isn't, plenty of its readers do not know its partisan. They are horrific at distorting news and opinion, often like in this case, presenting someones opinion as an observed fact.
This is what gets me about this publication, it distances itself from tabloid sensationalism, yet keeps a lot of the nefarious undercurrents, whilst masquerading as a grown up paper.
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Honest
Do you know who owns the Metro BTW, Ive got a feeling they also publish your paper of choice
I know who they are, but your a little big wrong in your stereotyping if you read any of my other posts you will quickly see i'm not blackshirt.
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Honest
But anyway why don't you provide links to "news worthy" stories the metro has covered and the guardian hasn't?
Err, its simpler than that, the election coverage. One was rabidly Lib Dem, the other, Rabidly Labour, Rabidly Tory, Rabidly Lib Dem.
It officially regards itself as non-partisan, something the '120' rag as I've often dubbed it whilst at uni (because its readers all think they are above average) is officially lib dem, but it doesn't speak too much about it.
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I don't think it's any secret that the media (especially the print media) bum Apple and despise Microsoft. It's quite pathetic really - and this joke of an article further compounds that.
I'm actually quite excited about Windows Phone 7 - and since I'll hopefully be in the market for a high-end smartphone in the autumn, it will definitely be an OS I would consider.
Su
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TheAnimus
No because the people who read the Sun know their not above average intellect, they don't pretend, there is no pretence.
I think you mean "they're" not "their".....you were saying something about the average intellect?
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I'm happy with 6.5.3 tbh, Custom ROMs and the Sence interface have done a pretty good job of covering up WM as a whole..
Im on android and i do find there is a few things i miss from my winmo 6.5... not much but still.
Its one of those things thats a quite complicated and awkward but once you figure it out its great! Its just different to iPhone OS in that its not designed for complete retards to use, its designed to be as functional as possible.
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Its just different to iPhone OS in that its not designed for complete retards to use...
Quote of the day :rockon:
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I think you mean "they're" not "their".....you were saying something about the average intellect?
TheAnimus is dyslexic. It says nothing about intellect.
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pritsey
I think you mean "they're" not "their".....you were saying something about the average intellect?
TheAnimus is very intelligent (as well as eloquent in his posts, despite having dyslexia), a minor spelling mistake doesn't detract from his ability to present an argument, however, you have taken to being a grammar Nazi for a cheap shot. Who is the more intelligent?