Microsoft Posts Anti-Apple Windows Phone Videos of Questionable Taste [Update: Removed]

[iZac]

Personally I think it looks more like a really comedically poor skit on Funny or Die ... and that's being generous.

 

[tdiaz]

I only saw the "colors" one, and other than it being totally dead pan stupid..

I mean, if that's all they can do, what are they trying to do? Get Ballmer to stay?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZtMDM6uVc

 

[any-key]

You wanna know what they were doing?
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Yes. But the point is Apple was making mony with good products. Now there is this numbers guy head of the company. And first thing he does is bringing the iP 5C. Cheap production & still a ridiculous price.

We all know whats happening when numbers guys run Apple. Not the first time..

Tim is trying to sell a Nokia Lumia with Apple Logo on it.

 

[Zyphras]

I gotta agree with the ad. What the hell has Apple been doing the last 6 months? But unfortunately, the iPhone 5C/S will not flop. People will once again line up in droves. I don't understand it. They're not bad phones, but their not innovative.

A fingerprint censor from the future that actually works is not innovative? It'll be used no doubt eventually for mobile payments.

What's your idea of innovative? A bigger screen? Come on, the smartphone industry will just never be as innovative as the years 2007 to 2010 again. There's only so much you can do with current and upcoming technology. "Innovation" itself is beginning to sound like a buzzword in which if it isn't a crazily revolutionary product, it "isn't innovative".

 

[kironin]

this is supposed to be light hearted ?

all it did is remind me what a mean SOB Bill Gates was when running MS.

 

[heimo]

That video is as funny, clever and classy as I've come to expect from Microsoft. Well done! Keep up the bad work!

 

[Smigit]

And the beauty is we can charge whatever we want

A bit of a smug statement coming from the company that is writing off millions in stock and despite constant price drops is still failing to sell their Surface PCs. If MS could sell their hardware with Apples margins they would in a heart beat.

 

[StyxMaker]

I only saw the "colors" one, and other than it being totally dead pan stupid..

I mean, if that's all they can do, what are they trying to do? Get Ballmer to stay?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZtMDM6uVc

Now, that is a stupid video.

 

[MacMulti]

Another reason Microsoft needs a new chief.

 

[Bonte]

Yes. But the point is Apple was making mony with good products. Now there is this numbers guy head of the company. And first thing he does is bringing the iP 5C. Cheap production & still a ridiculous price.

We all know whats happening when numbers guys run Apple. Not the first time..

Tim is trying to sell a Nokia Lumia with Apple Logo on it.

Apple didn't name a price for the iPhone 5c, it could be on cheaper contracts and the Chinese carriers will get it at a cheaper price. The 5c is a cheap mass product, but not from day one.

 

[s1nt4x]

First of all i wold like to say the iphone 5s is worth replacing the existing iphone just for the double in performance, the added camera improvements and on a lesser scale the fingerprint sensor just add to the reason but the main thing to remember is double the performance...

On the other hand the iphone 5c is a huge ripoff and here i have to agree with microsoft, they just take refurbished iphone 5`s and stick them in a plastic case and there the you the 5c.
If any one is considering buy`n a 5c i wold say go on ebay and get a "like new" 5 and you will end up with a premium made phone not some cheap refurbished plastic, there are a lot of ignorant people selling a unlocked 5 for the cost of a 2 year contract 5c.

 

[SockRolid]

Your arguments would carry more weight if you didn't debase them with childlike monikers such as Droidiots. Just like Microsoft could have used more effective marketing. Not a criticism, just an observation.

Do I look like I care?

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You need to let go of the anger my friend.... Its just a phone...

Did I sound angry to you? Poor baby!

 

[Lindsford]

Geez, get off your horse. You want iOS with a bigger screen? Carry around an iPad mini. Problem solved.

My horse? So your suggestion to wanting a 4.5-5.0 iPhone screen is to buy an iPad mini? Now I remember why I don't post here. Bunch of pompous jack asses who only see situations their way. They could have easily increased iPhone 5s screen and left 5C at 4.0". But no we get a finger print reader. Yay. -_-

 

[gctwnl]

Someone please save those videos before Microsoft takes then out. This will be useful to laugh at Microsoft's face for years.

#timetoswitchCreativeAgencies

The Creative Agency is only proposing and producing. It is somewhere at Microsoft where this idea and the result got the OK.

As Steve once said: they have no taste. They are not capable of selecting the right Creative Agency.

 

[SockRolid]

Samsung-Killing? You do realize this phone is irrelevant to anyone who actually desires a phone bigger then a 4" screen right?

I guess that would be people outside the US, who can't afford more than one computing device.
iPhone leads smartphone market share in the US. Looks like it's there to stay.
There just aren't any "safe havens" for Android any more in the US. Verizon was the last.

Sources:
http://bgr.com/2013/09/03/apple-iphone-market-share-growth/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/iphone-market-share-in-us_n_2196861.html
http://allthingsd.com/20121127/iphone-overtakes-android-in-the-u-s-android-extends-lead-abroad/

 

[Renzatic]

edit: blah. Not worth it.

 

[gctwnl]

Actually, I'd contend that except for app selection, Windows Phone 8 is superior to iOS in many areas. I switched from iPhone to Windows phone, and I'll tell you without any reservations, I couldn't go back--iOS is simply too primitive from a user experience and capability point of view.

While iOS is a perfectly good OS, it's not very good at getting your data front-and-center. WP8, on the other hand, excels at this, whether that means the basics like calendars and contacts, or whether it means deeply integrated social media or the ability to put "deep links" from apps on your start screen to fine tune the data you have rapid access to. I'll give you a few examples of why I say this.

In iOS, say I've got Pandora and a list of maybe 30 stations. I can launch Pandora and, if the custom station I'm looking for is on the front page, I can launch it, so two clicks. If not, I have to browse deeper into the app, find what I want and launch it, so 3-4 clicks.

In Windows Phone, I can pin every individual station I want straight to my start screen and have literally one click access to the station.

In IOS, if I'm using Evernote or OneNote to keep my notes, there are many things I can do. I can make new ones, access old ones, etc, fairly easy. If I need to get to a specific note in a specific notebook, I launch Evernote or Onenote, navigate to where my notebook is, and scroll to find my notes. At least 3 clicks, depending how deep I need to go.

In Windows phone, I can directly pin notebooks or even specific notes right to my start screen for not only single click access, but notification if one of my shared notes has been modified by one of my coworkers. I can't do that in iOS *at all*.

In iOS I can navigate into my contacts app and see the people I have saved. Pretty slick. If I want to see what their social network status is, I launch the appropriate app. If I want to see my history of contact with that person, I have to go to my a)call log, b) text log, and c)social app (say, facebook or twitter).

In Windows Phone, I go into my People app (contacts plus so much more), and in one location I can find my contact and see all the ways to contact them, I can see their latest social networks updates, post to their facebook wall, reply to them on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, text messaging, Skype, Instant Messenger or facebook messenger in a clean, single, unified interface. I can see a single log with all of my contact with that person: when I last called her, my most recent text messages and emails, including dates, any upcoming calendared appointments, etc. It's a VERY powerful application, and nothing on iOS matches its versatility.

If I want to keep track of a few "favorite people" without delving into my contacts, I can't do that easily on iOS. With Windows Phone, I simply pin those people to my start screen and their tiles will automatically update when they message me, add new pictures or posts to their social networks, call me, or whatever else. If I only want one tile and not a bunch, I can add my favorite people to a group and pin that, and it'll update with an aggregate of all their information as the updates come in. If I want all of those people to communicate in a unified way, I can add them all to a "Room" and pin that room to my start screen, which allows every member to message all the rest, share pictures, documents and conversations in a private space. I can't do that on iOS at all.

Now, there are some things iOS does that WP does not do, but they tend to be app-centric things. For example, there's no compatible Square, Intuit or PayPal credit card swiper on Windows Phone (as far as I know, last time I looked was a couple of months ago), but that's something that can be fixed with apps.

It's fun, I know, to badmouth "competing" OS's and claim they're inferior and all that, but it simply isn't an accurate or honest statement to claim that "iOS is superior to WP8" in any kind of unilateral sense. Yes, it has some things it does that WP8 doesn't, but WP8 equally has many useful, well implemented features that iOS simply does not--and in its present form, cannot--offer.

Good post. Factual and you give some good examples.

I looked at WP a while back, but what I found was that the biggest most expensive Lumia was still not very smooth. I also found the tiles on the home screen had a nasty side effect: 50% of the time I tried to swipe the *screen*, the system thought I selected an *app* instead and got me into an app I did not want.

Furthermore, the Contacts example makes me wonder: what about sandboxing? iOS sandboxes everything (for security and privacy reasons). If the Contacts app on WP can access that, how is their security/privacy model organised? Either weaker or smarter, or these are 'duplicate implementations'.

 

[Jayomat]

I gotta agree with the ad. What the hell has Apple been doing the last 6 months? But unfortunately, the iPhone 5C/S will not flop. People will once again line up in droves. I don't understand it. They're not bad phones, but their not innovative.

so you only ever buy the innovative phones? well good luck to you, because there has not been an innovative phone for quite some time

 

[thatoneguy82]

That was kind of boring.

 

[Masquerade]

I agree with the plastogenic part

 

[Macman45]

Seems a bit high school-ish of them...

Couldn't have put it better myself...There is nothing constructive there at all. If MS have to resort to playground style tactics, then things must be pretty bad in the Redmond camp. Sad to see just how far Microsoft have fallen. They were, and still are a SOFTWARE company...every single attempt in the hardware field apart from the X-Box has been a failure. They need to re-focus on what they do best. A top end Surface gives a battery life of 3 hours....How on earth did they think that would compete with other products? Not just Apple, many other hardware focused companies have released some very good products too.

 

[Renzatic]

so you only ever buy the innovative phones? well good luck to you, because there has not been an innovative phone for quite some time

Sure there have been. It's just that none of them have been as earth shattering as what we were seeing back before 2010.

Innovation isn't just advancement by huge leaps and bounds. It can be iterative improvement as well. Little tweaks that makes something a little better are just as important in the long run, and are usually what innovation consists of the more a technology matures.

 

[ikir]

A fingerprint censor from the future that actually works is not innovative? It'll be used no doubt eventually for mobile payments.

What's your idea of innovative? A bigger screen? Come on, the smartphone industry will just never be as innovative as the years 2007 to 2010 again. There's only so much you can do with current and upcoming technology. "Innovation" itself is beginning to sound like a buzzword in which if it isn't a crazily revolutionary product, it "isn't innovative".

Yes you are right, but he was only trolling I suppose.

Even if Apple will produce a flying iPhone someone will said: it is not innovative, planes can already fly.

 

[MacFly123]

I gotta agree with the ad. What the hell has Apple been doing the last 6 months? But unfortunately, the iPhone 5C/S will not flop. People will once again line up in droves. I don't understand it. They're not bad phones, but their not innovative.

Perhaps they were busy doing what took the computer industry 5+ years to pull off... Going 64 bit but this time in a completely seamless and instant transition the will be invisible to consumers and simple for developers while also completely redesigning the OS, all their apps, and adding a bunch of features and improving the hardware and internals strategically for a very interesting and powerful future that brings new products and categories into the mix, while also introducing new biometric technology?

What do people expect? A revolution every year or every other year? That never happened even when Steve was here! Calm down!

At least Samsung pulls this off with devices that people might actually prefer over an iPhone.

Not if they had any idea of the design and implementation and security risks, lack of updates, and on and on, but normal people are ignorant of those things! It mostly boils down to people with issues feeling cool by being anti something!

 

[Virginaustralia]

So, not only internet browser department of MS is full of retards ...

True dat