[gendoikari]

I think this article is a little bit naive. Google sent the email during IO, because the overwhelming flow of Google news simply obliterates any other news. Nobody cares about a Window Phone app while we are talking about new Android Studio, new Google Map, new G+ interface, new Gmail features, new apis, etc... "Microsoft violated YouTube license? Bad for them, now move on and let's talk about Android game development with Google Play Games". The trap it's defused.

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The things I care about seem to be the opposite of the things you care about. For instance, I'm ditching my third and last iPhone today for the Lumia 928 Windows Phone 8.

[weareconvo]

You are most definitely the only one. And judging from your comment history, you also like Windows 8, so rest assured that your opinions are far, far outside the mainstream.

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weareconvo said:

>You are most definitely the only one. And judging from your comment history, you also like Windows 8, so rest assured that your opinions are far, far outside the mainstream

As an opportunity for introspection, please reconsider your life choices about spending your time trolling on HN. I'm assuming your dismissal of my opinion because I "like Windows 8" is from this comment which you apparently found on the third page of my comment history:

>Basically, after an hour or two of using Windows 8 I became used to the new interface. The only other thing that's important to do is replace the crappy Metro versions of applications with standard Windows versions.

So my description of Windows 8 as "the crappy Metro versions of applications" makes me a shill for Microsoft I guess. Wow, with friends like me Microsoft certainly doesn't need enemies like you.

Unfortunately for you since you appear to loathe Microsoft, my opinions are typically early for "the mainstream" as you say. I was the first of my friends to get an iPhone and was responsible for at least 60 other people purchasing an iPhone. Now people who respect my technical opinion will be following me to Windows Phone 8 or Android. Both platforms have surpassed anything that Apple has to offer.

[CloudNine]

Just last quarter, Windows Phone shipped on 6 million phones and Windows 8 sold total 100 million licensees. Someone who likes them is the "only one" and is "far, far out of the mainstream?".

Also what's up with people launching ad hominem attacks on people liking Windows instead of commenting on the topic on hand? What has your post got to do with Google blocking and refusing to make a YouTube app for Windows Phone?

[weareconvo]

"Ad hominem" is only an appropriate term to use if I was saying that he was making an argument, but that his argument was wrong because of some defect in his character. It isn't just used for any time anyone mentions the other person in a conversation.

In this case, no argument was made. He simply said "The things I care about seem to be opposite of the things you care about". That's not an argument, it's just a personal statement. Even if ad hominem WERE the correct term, it would be even LESS appropriate here, because he was the one who brought up his own tastes in the first place.

EDIT: And to respond to the rest of your post, numbers like those are meaningless. Unless they're presented in a comparative context, they're very much like showing someone a graph without its axes labeled.

So for comparative purposes, Windows Phone shipped on that many devices. Great. How many Android and iPhone devices were shipped in the same period?

[CloudNine]

I see, do you have an opinion on the story or are you here just to comment about how other people's personal tastes are out of the mainstream?

[weareconvo]

Ironically, the subtle implication of THIS comment - that my responses are less valuable because I am, in general, a negative person - IS drifting towards ad hominem.

[gendoikari]

I'm not speaking about what I care, but about what I think 90% people are caring about now.