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by mtgx
4920 days ago
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I think both WP8 and Windows 8's problems are that they are mostly beautiful "skin-deep", and that it mesmerizes you a little with all its different colors and animations. But once you start using them for a while you get frustrated with the lack of OS functionality, lack of apps, or even the OS interface itself, which wastes a lot of space for stuff, and doesn't make stuff as clear as on other platforms. Sometimes it's difficult to even realize what you're looking at or what you have to do, because the symbols and identifiers are so simplistic. |
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The OS actually has a lot of features built-in that you have to resort to separate apps for on other devices. And after some use, I don't find the icons any more mysterious than those found elsewhere... you can almost always pull the menu up to reveal the textual name for the icons if you need to know what they do, however.
From what I've seen, Windows 8 certainly needs some polish, just like Windows Phone 7 did when it was first released. I don't have any doubts that both products will continue to mature into things that are better, though.
Microsoft's biggest problem, in my opinion, isn't that they do a bad job - it's that they are too quick to bail out if things don't go their way right out of the gate. If they stick with the platforms they have in the market now, I think consumers will pick them up and enjoy them over time.