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by cryptoz 5347 days ago
> 1. It's a phone, not a mass-storage device.

Okay, this is getting silly. It's a phone, it's a mass storage device, it's a computer, it's a global networking device, it's a camera, it's a GPS locator, etc. It's all of them at the same time. Don't call it "a phone" and ignore everything else it can (or should be able to) do.
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ugh 5347 days ago
Why do you want it to be a mass storage device? I don’t get it.
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icebraining 5347 days ago
To copy files to it? Music, documents, videos, etc?

Sure, you can use Wifi, but that's slower, more cumbersome and wastes battery life.

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ugh 5347 days ago
Manually? What century is this?

Isn’t there a way to sync? That would be strictly preferable to a mass storage device.

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icebraining 5347 days ago
No, it wouldn't, exactly because that wouldn't be OS agnostic.

And who said anything about it being manual? Mass storage devices can be synced. Mine certainly are.

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ugh 5347 days ago
Meh. Just because some geeky stuff is missing doesn’t make WP7 not a great OS. As if anyone cares about Linux.
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cryptoz 5347 days ago
1. Plug in.

2. Drag and Drop files.

That's geeky? I disagree.

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sjs 5347 days ago
"We’re getting to the point where everything’s a computer in a different form factor. So what, right? So what if it’s built with a computer inside it? It doesn’t matter. It’s, what is it? How do you use it? You know, how does the consumer approach it? And so who cares what’s inside it anymore?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8QXzYQoBY

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