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I guess you do not know the problem: My kids come home from school and want an iPod – I want them to use a Zune as I am convinced that iTunes is one of the worst software I have ever seen (besides RealPlayer), I hate the lock-in into the store and the iPod user interface sucks. As I say – that’s my personal view. However, I have to admit I lost this fight regarding the iPod.
Now at school my son is one of the few not having a phone – yet. And interestingly it seems that nobody has a problem to pay the price of the iPhone (for kids…). Yesterday I got my Windows Phone 7 and my son was looking at it. He turned around and said: “Wow, this is way cooler than any iPhoneâ€. He just got one step closer to a phone
It might be time to sell your old phone and buy a real one, one which you can hold the way you want and it works. It is really cool!
Roger
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You should of course let him try an Android based handset. 😉
🙂 I will stick with my COOL phone and so will he… as long as daddy has to pay 🙂
Roger, your son will at least have great war stories to tell when he’s grown up. He’ll say: imagine, when I was a kid my dad made me use Windows phones and a Zune music player. All the other kids had gadgets that worked, only I had to put up with the stuff that nobody wanted…
Hi Matthias,
if I have to choose between a cool phone with a lot of users and a cool phone, which works, I will stay with my Windows Phone 7.
BTW: I just saw a long list of Android vulnerabilites being published today 😉
Roger
Hi Roger
Ok, you have provoked me to reply! 🙂
In Straasbourg (pushing against an open door) you convinced me of the merits of upgrading my OS to win 7 from the wonderful and much loved XP and once done I was impressed and overwhelmed with Windows 7.
That is not to say I like it all but I do like it very much and it is what I had hoped the OS before that should have been. I like the performance, the industrial strength, the reliability, the security and many others. I still hate networking implementation – I still struggle with the OS offering me several overlapping and often competing and contradicting ways to manage a network home/business network with home networking, file permissions, share permissions, etc
Now, the reason for my provocation… the iPhone. I completely agree with you but totally disagree about your insinuated and explicit conclusions. I was fortunate to receive an Iphone as a present 6 months ago (almost to the day) and joined the iPhone revolution very late. I knew and love many things Apple for several decades yet I am a long time advocate of many things Microsoft too.
My mobile life before now was based on Nokia. Some of the reasons I had avoided Iphone were a) It is overpriced b) I also think iTunes is a soul destroying piece of software, c) I dont like the privacy issues around the iStore and the IPR restrictions on my linking my iPhone to my PC.having said that, the iPhone has changed my life and is a revelation. Since I owned it, it has changed how I think and do work. In fact, it was on the Link-in iPhone app I first saw this post. It allows me to use my time in a way which suits me best. Apple has pioneered the use of a simplified intuitive approach with large (relatively to others in the past) screen, they have pioneered using the community for application developments and some of the apps I use (mainly free ones but some paid) are a real relevation in usefullness and simplicity.
I think your comments do not reflect these issues. Yes, I still hate iTunes, the iStore model, the user interface could be enhanced, the hardware lock-in to apple. I also believe that Apple unfairly ‘gets away’ with such uncompetitive activities which Microsoft would never be allowed to do. (Remind me to try to explain/justify why my iStore account is currently locked into the French store rather than allowing me to chose what I want!) However, I have to say that Windows Media player or Centre do NOT rank as my favorite either. I find many of these software packages want total control over my media library, they assume they know best than the operator and can deliver vengefulness on my 90GB music library that almost often leaves me in tears (igorning all my hard work of categorizing, structure, playlists, etc) and why-oh-why has Microsoft never heard of .flac files? 😉
However, I am intrigued by the Zune. IMHO, Microsoft is late with its offerings in this area. They are late but have knowledge, experience, determination and late-mover advantage (I know there were attempts before!). I am hopeful that real challenges against the current incumbent champion of the mobile handset will truly provoke. Me, I would really like to see Microsoft lead in the area of tablets… which is the next very exciting area of interest. However, think price. My iphone cost more that a highly specified laptop. I think that is a horrendus fact as I sit and marvel in joy at what it does for me. I would never have paid that for it and I, now, would not live without it. I guess might even feel the same about Zune someday. Go figure….!
Keep smilin’
Cormac
Hi Cormac,
you really made me laugh :D.
So, I guess my call to action is to bring you a Windows Phone 7 the next time we meet? 😉
I have to appologize but with the great role you have around public sector now, I am not allowed to make any presents 😉
The strange thing I see is that the highest hit rates on my blog are, when I reference a Dilbert comic and the biggest amount of comments, when I write about Apple 🙂
Looking forward seeing you at one to the events
Roger
I sure wish that Cormac could use a Windows Phone for a while to see how truly integrated it is. I can’t imagine going back to an icon-based interface. My Pictures hub pulls down thumbnails from all of my collections on the web and saves the storage space on my phone. My friends’ facebook updates just show up and I can check their walls from my people hub. If I get stuck in traffic, I can tell the people waiting for me by talking to my phone. I can update my status and/or check in from my Me tile. Oh – and where apps are concerned, I’ve found everything I want except one that plays bird calls.
Convincing Cormac might be a fairly challenging task in this respect – Personally I agree definitely!!
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