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Microsoft Shuffles Executives as Nokia Debuts New Windows Phone with 41MP Camera
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12 pages in, you'd think the most recent commenters would have at least read through some of the replies instead of repeating the same tired misconceptions stated on page 1.
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Haw haw that was so hilarious the first dozen times too
. You'd think we're living in last decade...
It's a cell phone, not an open wound...
That wasn't my goal. I was merely trying to point out that Microsoft's whole mobile thing is just a poor copy. Nothing wrong with taking inspiration from something, but when you do it so poorly... and I'm not a "Microsoft hater" either. I've used Windows and Windows Mobile all my life (up until they quit the real windows mobile and started their "7 series" crap) and been quite satisfied up until recently when they started on the visual abominations they call "art" that are Mobile 7/8 Series and "Windows 8".
On the other hand, Google may have taken a lot of inspiration from IOS too, but judging by the marketshare and the fact that it is useful, pretty, and versatile, I'd say that they succeeded.
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Haw haw that was so hilarious the first dozen times too
. You'd think we're living in last decade...It's a cell phone, not an open wound...
That wasn't my goal. I was merely trying to point out that Microsoft's whole mobile thing is just a poor copy. Nothing wrong with taking inspiration from something, but when you do it so poorly... and I'm not a "Microsoft hater" either. I've used Windows and Windows Mobile all my life (up until they quit the real windows mobile and started their "7 series" crap) and been quite satisfied up until recently when they started on the visual abominations they call "art" that are Mobile 7/8 Series and "Windows 8".
On the other hand, Google may have taken a lot of inspiration from IOS too, but judging by the marketshare and the fact that it is useful, pretty, and versatile, I'd say that they succeeded.
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You must be the last person who is satisfied with Windows Mobile. The rest of the world moved on to modern touch operating systems. HINT: MS blew up Windows Mobile for a reason.
To say that MS's current mobile OS is poor copy of iOS just because some ideas where copied (never mind the patent agreements between Apple and MS) is like saying iOS is a poor copy of Android just because iOS copied ideas from Android.
Windows Phone 8 is so unlike iOS that it takes getting used to. I don't own one, but I do appreciate the speed. Even on non-high end hardware the OS is fast.
If Apple did it, it'd have to pass through the three stages of the "Apple's Doing Something Different With Their Stuff" scenario, which usually goes something like...
Stage 1: What is Apple thinking? Tim Cook is an idiot, and this is destined to fail. It's like cheap PC crap. All numbers, no quality.
Stage 2: Wow, this is great! I'd never imagine such clear, crisp pictures coming out of a phone camera. Now watch everyone else copy them with their own cheap rip offs. Why is Apple the only one that innovates?
Stage 3: Apple invented megapixels.
Stage 1: What is Apple thinking? Tim Cook is an idiot, and this is destined to fail. It's like cheap PC crap. All numbers, no quality.
Stage 2: Wow, this is great! I'd never imagine such clear, crisp pictures coming out of a phone camera. Now watch everyone else copy them with their own cheap rip offs. Why is Apple the only one that innovates?
Stage 3: Apple invented megapixels.
Apple and all the others will eventually have to do this. As megapixel sizes keep on increasing and increasing, they'll have to employ an oversampling technology.
Current phones are already at 13MP, with 5S rumoured to have 13MP too, Sony is coming out with a 20MP camera, it won't be long before they reach 40MP.
Oh yeah, and...
Stage 5: Ha! Ports? Whatever, dude! I didn't need em none anyway!
Stage 6: Spend a small fortune on dongles so you can use all your stuff.
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I wouldn't say so. Microsoft had a good product and then they were like, "hey, let's totally quit and make an iPhone clone so we can make our mobile division as successful as Apple's, even if it means totally abandoning our current userbase and going after iPhone users while on top of that giving the new product a similar name to the old one so that maybe gullible customers of the old product will be suckered into buying the inferior new one anyway".
You're right, but even my Nokia 6120's Nokia OS is fast on non high-end hardware.
In some ways, the aOS found in the AirPhone 4 is so unlike iOS that it takes some getting used to as well...
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...even though they may have taken some inspiration from iOS.
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I wouldn't say so. Microsoft had a good product and then they were like, "hey, let's totally quit and make an iPhone clone so we can make our mobile division as successful as Apple's, even if it means totally abandoning our current userbase and going after iPhone users while on top of that giving the new product a similar name to the old one so that maybe gullible customers of the old product will be suckered into buying the inferior new one anyway".
You're right, but even my Nokia 6120's Nokia OS is fast on non high-end hardware.
In some ways, the aOS found in the AirPhone 4 is so unlike iOS that it takes some getting used to as well...
...even though they may have taken some inspiration from iOS.
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Except MS didn't make an iPhone clone. Go ahead and keep telling yourself that.
You're right, but even my Nokia 6120's Nokia OS is fast on non high-end hardware.
What a pathetic argument.
Why not compare the original iPhone to that Nokia and see which phone was faster?
What fool would confuse a Windows Phone with an iPhone?
Typical ignorant iOS fanboy speak. I take you haven't read the DPReview review of the 808.
I assume if the iPhone 5 had a 41 Mpixel camera, you'd state all cameras under 41 Mpixels are cr@ppy.
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I don't think a cameraphone is going to make apple bleed...
No need to get all grumbly pants. I don't have to tell anyone the obvious
What a pathetic comeback
Each in their own element. The iPhone had decent hardware for the time and ran its OS as well as could be expected. It was on par with the BlackBerry and (real) Windows Mobile of the time. The Nokia 6120's software performance was also on par with the hardware of the time, and today's Windows Mobile phone 7/8 series has about as much functionality as one, so it's like having a touchscreen 6120, in software, except perhaps with a serial cable, you could get more functionality in the form of actually using your own ringtones
I don't think there's as big of a "confusion" factor as much as a "poor copy-n-coverup-with-silly-colored-boxes-and-oversized-text" factor.
Thanks for your inquiries, and have a great day.
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I don't think a cameraphone is going to make apple bleed...
No need to get all grumbly pants. I don't have to tell anyone the obvious
What a pathetic argument.
What a pathetic comeback
Why not compare the original iPhone to that Nokia and see which phone was faster?
Each in their own element. The iPhone had decent hardware for the time and ran its OS as well as could be expected. It was on par with the BlackBerry and (real) Windows Mobile of the time. The Nokia 6120's software performance was also on par with the hardware of the time, and today's Windows Mobile phone 7/8 series has about as much functionality as one, so it's like having a touchscreen 6120, in software, except perhaps with a serial cable, you could get more functionality in the form of actually using your own ringtones
I don't think there's as big of a "confusion" factor as much as a "poor copy-n-coverup-with-silly-colored-boxes-and-oversized-text" factor.
Thanks for your inquiries, and have a great day.
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I don't think there's as big of a "confusion" factor as much as a "poor copy-n-coverup-with-silly-colored-boxes-and-oversized-text" factor.
You've been saying this, but have yet to offer up any proof to back up your statement. So tell me, how is WP 7/8 a cheap ripoff of iOS?
IT BLOODY ISN'T, he is an idiot. It is the mobile OS that is completely different to Apple/Android/Unbuntu/Firefox/BB10, if anything iOS is becoming the rip off now. IF ANYTHING, I am not saying they are.