Describe the benefits of products and platforms, they are built, each manufacturer can - so if re-read the promises in the past five years, it seems that the power of our smartphone should already be fabulous, the quality of the photos - to overtake conventional SLR cameras, and those who possess these miracle tools - rise in the abilities of others. On many platforms, there is progress really worth to compare the same iPhone 4 and iPhone 6. Of course, the "Six" is not a breakthrough in the mobile market, but rather evolutionary development. However, it is the logic of the development of hardware and software solutions have a significant impact on consumer preferences and choices of users in favor of one or another platform.
Journalists Ed Bott and Tom Warren - once loyal fans Windows Phone. For many years they have been doing reviews of new smartphones and software development Microsoft. This week, the authors of ZDNet and The Verge passed sentence Windows Phone. They both refused Lumia smartphones and switched to iPhone 6. Each of them had a clear motivation: neglect of Microsoft's own platform and users of their devices.
Smartphone comes to the fore a software update, it allows for new features, new experiences on a fairly old hardware. Microsoft does not seek to offer users the same approach as that of Apple. iPhone for three years receive OS updates, increasing their functionality opportunities. Microsoft may at any time terminate update "old" devices, change the code and stop supporting older devices, complains Bott.
With the release of Windows Phone 7 with Microsoft to guarantee support in future updates devices and even gave WP7.5 for some of them. But here's the transition to Windows Phone 8 was impossible, and all those who have spent their money on the flagship, suddenly found themselves with a relatively new, but infinitely older models.
Bott, who for 10 years doing product reviews Microsoft and wrote a book about the company, lamented the fact that the company has released a new flagship Lumia Icon in February, and stopped selling model in October this year. It's as if Apple iPhone 6 line closed in May next year.
"Due to the fact that the Microsoft platform occupies a small share of the market (a few percent in the US), operators have no interest in these devices. And Microsoft has no leverage. The result is a vicious circle, causing users to suffer Windows Phone », - says Ed Bott.
Windows Phone platform under iOS. Due to the fact that it is not a priority for any of software developers, games and applications are appearing with a delay. According to Tom Warren - "the proud owner of an iPhone 6" - if you can find on iOS dozens of programs for one function and for every taste, then Windows Phone - on the strength of one. Moreover, for a long time OSes Microsoft did not even have Instagram, prompting Redmond promote third-party program. Now Instagram client for WP does not support video recording.
"You can not publish a video with Windows Phone smartphones in Instagram. This is simply unacceptable for the manufacturer, which positions its products as solutions for high-quality recording and focuses on the cameras" - says Tom Warren.
No breakthroughs and vivid applications on Windows Phone does not appear, they come to iOS and Android. On the platform of Microsoft - only an attempt to catch up with them, and then attempt to catch up with the quantity but not quality.
"Instead of being involved in the operating system independent developers, unique applications or photo editors like VSCO Cam to work with sufficient quality cameras Lumia, developers simply mimic their applications from other platforms. As a result, the same program for iOS and Windows Phone are very different functional and at the last he was much poorer" - says Warren.
Journalists and others led a convincing argument. In particular, non-optimal price-performance ratio smartphones Windows Phone, rapid depreciation of the flagships of the limited range of accessories. In any case, it is difficult to imagine a more compelling criticism than the one that comes from the once loyal fans of the product.