Windows Phone Hits the Final Lap

Is it just me, or does Windows Phone 7 look very over complicated and scroll-tastic? I mean seriously, what business user is going to want to waste time wading through all those animated transitions? How is anyone expected to know where things are when you can't see them because they're off-screen. Surely tapping from App to App directly is much more efficient?
There's a big difference between 'innovation' which means doing things better, and 'different' which means not being the same.
Yes WP7 is different, but then so was the Sinclair C5.

Nice try, Chuckie. Your Doctorate in Trolly Goodness is showing through. Thank goodness I'm not as "educated" as you.

"Apple admits there is an issue"

I don't recall this ever being stated.

Did you even watch any of the event? They have slides showing where not to touch the side to cause the attenuation. They demonstrate holding the iphone4 drops the signal strength. They said they received complaints for .55% of use"


No, he did not watch it. Of course not. Even he did, he would not understand it.

He's defending his 'I am not a fanboy' so vigorously, it's fanboylike.

Fortunately for him, he's so dumb he fails to see the inherent difficulty in his reasoning.

Laugh at him, pet him on the virtual head, and move on.

"Apple admits there is an issue"

I don't recall this ever being stated.


Did you even watch any of the event? They have slides showing where not to touch the side to cause the attenuation. They demonstrate holding the iphone4 drops the signal strength. They said they received complaints for .55% of users.

If that is not admitting there is an issue, I am not sure what it.

It sounds like you just want them to admit they are wrong, and that the design is flawed. That is very different..

"Apple admits there is an issue"

I don't recall this ever being stated.

My statements are in regards to the company, Apple. The difference here (and its my opinion, so good ol' Chuck doesn't start ranting about facts and calling me names again) is that when Microsoft ran into the same issue (a hardware problem) with their Xbox, they put a system into place that addressed it. I am speaking from experience, because I lived through it. Frustrating as anything since I use both xboxes that I own as extenders. While the process was fairly smooth, the fact that it happened to both of my xboxs was very frustrating.

So, despite the fact that there was a very high percentage of failure, when the device worked it worked well. Many times I have read the smug remarks from Apple fanboys that spout off about the xbox as "an utter failure", yet there are more than a few people I know that have never had an issue with theirs. Sound familiar? Microsoft has been taken to task on their xbox reliability issues, they responded. It has cost them a *lot* of money to do so, but they did it. Would I buy another xbox? I'm mulling that over, actually. I read that the new one is much improved. But I'm a little sour on my previous experience with it, so I'm, not sure I will be tied to another one as of yet.

IN MY OPINION (that was for you, Chuck!) Apple is seriously dropping the ball, and for the reasons I stated above. Er, below. All of the recent actions by Apple lead me to believe that they need to mature as a company. Will I buy an iPhone? Probably. My wife wants one in the worst way. But, I will probably be skipping v. 4 this time, largely because I think they need to address the problem and I have zero confidence that they believe there is a problem.