I don't know how good this survey really was, but I can imagine there's a lot of truth behind it, particularly for Windows phones. I own one, and I consider myself a major tecchie, and I need all the flexibility of Windows Mobile, but DAMN that OS is a pain in the ass sometimes. I can imagine a whole lot of people saying the hell with it.
MS has some serious work to do before these phones can really enter the mainstream.
What I've noticed is that the OS itself is fine, but once I started looking into all the things it could do with some tweaking, I got into the hard parts (ie, tweaking it to do those extra things). I think a lot of the reason Apple stuck to some main features and didn't add others is because they wanted a device anyone could use out of the box with little effort. That same simplicity that annoys some people like me who love to tweak and customize is exactly what other people crave and the only thing they will tolerate. Competition is good because more markets are served.
That, and the fact that Microsoft likes to tout the large number of 3rd party apps available for their phone OS, yet if you go and install even a small fraction of those, the reliability of the phone drops like a rock.
“While it's not exactly punching it out with the heavyweights in multi-room audio, the Mint Studio does certainly hold its own with many similarly-priced iPod docks out there.”
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
I don't know how good this survey really was, but I can imagine there's a lot of truth behind it, particularly for Windows phones. I own one, and I consider myself a major tecchie, and I need all the flexibility of Windows Mobile, but DAMN that OS is a pain in the ass sometimes. I can imagine a whole lot of people saying the hell with it.
MS has some serious work to do before these phones can really enter the mainstream.
What I've noticed is that the OS itself is fine, but once I started looking into all the things it could do with some tweaking, I got into the hard parts (ie, tweaking it to do those extra things). I think a lot of the reason Apple stuck to some main features and didn't add others is because they wanted a device anyone could use out of the box with little effort. That same simplicity that annoys some people like me who love to tweak and customize is exactly what other people crave and the only thing they will tolerate. Competition is good because more markets are served.
That, and the fact that Microsoft likes to tout the large number of 3rd party apps available for their phone OS, yet if you go and install even a small fraction of those, the reliability of the phone drops like a rock.