Windows 10: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Admits Windows Phone Failed

So many people so many opinions, and mine is no different than just an opinion. I am in Blackberry country, how ironic that a once dominating device is no more than rubble. Too many "analysts" look at the market share and customers are going like: I need to be able to communicate with my kids. The phone as we know it is dead, the device we use today is not very smart either. It always is low on battery power, it never works the way we want it and yet we keep purchasing 700 - 1000 dollar devices every two years and treat them terrible. We stick them in pockets where they cannot breath, we demand to use them as gaming devices, we need to listen to music through them and in the end it is becoming no more than a fragile computing device consuming heaps of data and costing way more than the invested money (cases, screen protectors, apps, chargers and what nots). In the mean time we all suffer from neck pain or worse we walk into traffic staring in the abyss. It is ridiculous how, we as smart human beings, have give up on ourselves.
It really does not matter if you are a "Apple Sheep", "Android Robot", Windows phone or still a black berry user. The real essence is that we are becoming introvert, we refuse to speak with each other (oh dad, just text me) and become addicts to the same device that hears and sees everything. Of course it is immediately communicating that you are moving (GPS tracking) or that you were on a social media site and in the mean time you zip with 70 miles down the road completely unaware that your are moving against traffic. This year Android is the biggest deployment of devices around the globe (sorry Apple you are not) and Windows and Blackberry have maybe 3% together. But what does it really matter? Until we, the inventors of these devices, give up our dependencies to them, we will always have fan boys and people trying to bash or ksh you for not using their products. Who cares that companies go under when they do not meet market share.... until you can no longer afford to pay for the device you so desire.... because you lost your job and now you do wake up... I hope I have given you something to think about before you run off to the next provider demanding a small computer to warm up your pocket for the same price that most families need to live on for a month. Putting my sandals back on and stroking my gray beard I sign off....

 

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- on the up side.. *Cool

 

Lots of updates for a "dead" phone:
Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14371 | Windows Experience Blog

 

In the UK - Virgin Trains / Trainline - lot of UK train operators with Mobile (M) tickets - Eurostar as well.
Barclays Bank Home banking
Live Football on TV
Sky Go
Stock Quote
Chromecast (might be OK now - but didn't work on Windows phone recently) - Phone controls on remote TV. Phone acts as the handset.
Times newspapers
Evening Standard
Paris Metro
Bose sound touch (that might possibly run on Windows phone - but never used to)
Squeezebox (Logitech) media server (connects to your remote server)
Plex (controls PLEX on remote TV
OR code reader (think Windows phone has a different Bar code reader)

TV guide (Be, Is, nl)

Etc etc. Could go on a lot more.

Note you can get to the main (desktop) website of course but the mobile apps are much better and geared to mobile phone usage.

Cheers
jimbo

 

- and pin them the start screen..*Wink

 

Well, I for one think that the iPhone is still the best phone around, hands down. It just does it. I don't own one, but my roomie's do. And I rely on them to always have it with them. Pretty much can do anything with it. We can print to our Windows connected printers, do virtually anything with them, connect to our PCs via teamviewer (why do I need a desktop on my phone anyway?).

I just can't see paying good money for a phone, that is not supported by business and limited apps. Why would anyone do it, except for a few enthusiast's.

I guess, I am just not much appreciative with anything this 'new' Microsoft has brought to the table.

To me they are pretty much like knock-off artists, just trying to duplicate what has already been done by everyone else, and then try to sell it as cutting edge technology. Even their Surface tablets are made by Pegatron, the same people who build the iPads. go figure.

 

iPhone could be greatest thing since sliced bread but to pay so much for a bloody phone is ridiculous. I'd rather get robbed !!!

 

Well I can only compare it to the Android phones I had before my iPhone 6, my first and only iPhone thus far. Personally I love it. Audio is great. Half my relatives have iPhones and when you talk iPhone to iPhone the clarity is amazing. Otherwise I've found it decent, far better than may Samsung I had before it. Also, it knows it's a phone. If the phone rings nothing else happens. My wife has a Samsung, if the phone rings and you grab it wrong it will suddenly jump away from the phone screen, that should never happen.
As for the Windows phone. Unfortunately, Verizon doesn't support the newest Lumina's at the moment, which sucks. When they do, or Microsoft clarifies its long term vision and rolls out some hardware supported by all the major carriers, I may consider switching to Windows Phone as everyone I know loves their phone. Considering the price difference, it's worth a try. Otherwise, for the phone Apple will probably have my business, but only on my phone.

 

I would have no problem with iPhone (I actually have iPhone 5 in my drawer - but the display is too small now when I have met Lumia 640), but the price is now out of reach. Kids and life in general do change things... As for Android, I don't have time for fiddling/allways charging/etc. anymore. My first experience with Android was also the last one. For nearest years, at least.

 

Not an apple fan at all but I think I might pick one up.

 

hey, jimbo45..*Wink
- we can get the National Rail app, and Barclays Mobile Banking app in the UK..
- there's new ones appearing all the time..

 

Well most are tied to some phone carrier package and cost very little to obtain. I think they actually paid full price for only one (because they dropped the original in the lake, while boating & drinking - dumb asses).

 

At least around here you actually get robbed when you get "free or for reduced price" from cell phone providers so I buy my own and pay for service only. I can't even imagine dropping 500 or more bucks for a phone and here Apple stuff is twice as expensive as in US.
Comparable Samsung is helluva cheaper.

 

Hi there

No probs on Android or Iphone --but the thread was about WINDOWS phones -- can you get these apps on WINDOWS phones.
You can usually get to Banking for example via Main (Desktop) website but using the desktop site on a mobile is not very good.

Cheers
jimbo