(This is my own opinion, please do not confuse it with Microsoft's, or as representing Microsoft's. While I contribute code to Phone 8, I don't work on the team, and am not privy to why behind their marketing/engineering decisions)
Take a step back, how many years do you really think it will actually take for Phone 8 apps to become more prevalent than the Phone 7 apps? How many of you will have already replaced your phone by then? It's been a while since I've owned a phone in Australia so I don't know how it works there, but in the US everyone gets a new phone every 18 - 24 months (depending on if the carrier lets you upgrade early), by the time Phone 8 has released, and has enough apps to worry you, you'll already be at the start of a new upgrade cycle. -----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:03 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Windows Phone 8 announced Seriously ? Is that the new Microsoft policy, just dump old customers ? I see they said 18 months of updates in regards to windows 8. For me, I see Windows Phone as something that's evolving, and thought, and expected it, just like the iphone does, bring customers along with them, not just abandon them every three years or so (well last time it was three years ago) The sad part is I can't honestly tell people they should buy a windows phone today. And it's a paint to have to tell them, yes last week when I said to buy a windows phone that was all we knew, now we know your phone will be obsolete come September. |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean |Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 1:45 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: RE: Windows Phone 8 announced | |I don't why the unhappiness, clearly you were happy with the device |when you |bought it, why do you care that a newer device sometime in the future |is coming |out? | |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy |Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:48 PM |To: 'ozDotNet' |Subject: RE: Windows Phone 8 announced | |Now I'm really grumpy... My lumia 800 isn't that old, but now |apparently it is :( | | ||-----Original Message----- ||From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- ||boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burela ||Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 4:52 AM ||To: ozDotNet ||Subject: Windows Phone 8 announced || ||For anyone interested, I put my rough notes online of the Windows ||Phone ||8 announcement. || ||http://bit.ly/MrWEze ||Some highlights: || ||* Shared core between Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8. ||* New user definable tile sizes (like Windows 8). Can now have 1/4 |sized ||mini tiles to give it more flavour. ||* A new "company hub" that corporate IT can display apps and deploy |from ||their internal servers. ||* Support for new high resolution screens (720p) ||* Existing device aren't upgradeable to 8.0, but existing devices will |get a ||7.8 update that will give some of the features, such as the new tiles. || ||http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/my-notes-from-the-windows- ||phone-8-announcement/ || ||-David Burela ||Regional Technical Evangelist ||Infragistics | | | | |
