I yield.
I’m done with the Windows Phone. At this point, it’s like having the choice to be any kid on the playground, and consciously choosing to be the one that gets beat up by all the rest of the kids. And the teachers.
It’s not good enough that that the device is pulling in as third place. I checked the market this morning, and found three new apps based on the Kama Sutra. Seriously? This is the shit that people are making? Where the apps designed to compete with what’s on iOS or Android? The only quality stuff is coming from Microsoft themselves, and they can’t and shouldn’t be expected to prop up the ecosystem.
I’ve also been waiting for my Mango update, which is now a month and a half behind everyone else. There are good apps available, but they’re ticking over to 7.5 with each passing day, which means that I can’t use them, and with every passing day, I’m less inclined to use or even remember them.
It was this Unity news that really solidified it for me, though. You may know how much I like Unity, and hearing David Helgason say that Unity wasn’t going to support WP7, and the way he said it felt that I was being denied a whole refreshing boatload of content because I made the wrong choice. No one likes to be smugly told they made the wrong choice. No one wants to realize that they made the wrong choice. But I’m man enough to admit it.
I don’t know where I’m going to go after this. I’m dissatisfied with all three major smartphone players, and have learned that I don’t need 1,000,000 possible apps to feel that I’m getting my money’s worth. I do want some apps, and I want those apps to be decent quality. I guess that leaves me at Android’s doorstep again. I’m not due for an upgrade until February of 2012, so there’s time for SOMEONE to win me back. I’m open to influence.
That's too bad. Not that I can defend anything about Windows Phone's performance in the market, but as a fellow user of one, I hate to hear when other users aren't happy with it, further whittling away the community.
ReplyDeleteI think my hope is either in a re-stimulated developer community with Nokia's participation in WP7, or the HTML5 world growing fast enough that PhoneGap becomes the saviour of the WP7 marketplace.
Well, I'm not going to TOTALLY take it off the table. I realize that the update issue is Samsung's fault, so I won't go with Samsung again. I like what WP is trying to accomplish with their live tiles and social integration, and as much as I would like to deny it, these things really DO march on the strength of their marketplaces to a large degree.
ReplyDeleteLike I said, I'm not due for an update until Feb, although I'm not sure if I'll lock myself into another 2 year contract at that point. It'll depend on what's on the market, and in what state. Who knows!