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Re:Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10 by Joeri on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @07:14AM (#10937528)
My experience going from wp8 on a lumia 920 to wp10 on a lumia 950 is that mail, calendar and settings got better, the browser is a wash trading improved site compatibility for worse battery life, and everything else that changed got worse. The wp of old was slow to update, but it was rock solid and highly usable. The new one not so much with crashes, slowdowns and battery drain issues all over. For what i paid for this phone i could have picked any android phone. I probably should have.
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Re:Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10 by at-fates-hands on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @10:16AM (#10938588)
They been battling the battery issue over several of the latest builds and its not working. I upgraded to WM 10 on my Lumia Icon and its been a mess.

8 and 8.1 were stable and snappy. 10 has been a nightmare for me. The UI is nearly unusable and clunky. Just to do simple things, I have two, sometimes three additional clicks to get where I want to go. Even with successive builds my Lumia still freezes, crashes and restarts A LOT.

A typical example was this week. Went to my nieces hockey game with a full battery. Went to take a video, it started recording, then froze, then restarted (crashed). I thought, "Well, that sucks." It reboots, I try again, same thing. Then when my phone restarts, and I get the warning, "Your battery is critically low, please plug in."

I decided this week I'm going back to Android, Windows Mobile 10 at this point is almost unusable for me.

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Re:Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10 by mahouse on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @08:37AM (#10937918)
Many people say that the problem with Windows Phone is that there are no apps, but the OS is crap as well.
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Re:Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10 by Joeri on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @08:43AM (#10937958)
The OS was good around the 8.0 time frame, reliable and highly usable. Not the whack-a-mole app dance that is iOS, and not the byzantine maze of android. The changes in 8.1 I did not care for, it made things more like iOS / android but at least the OS remained reliable. It seems like MS thought about the phone and what their strengths were, and decided to get rid of them.
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Re:Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10 by mahouse on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @09:06AM (#10938105)
I must be the only one that cares about design, because the inconsistencies they introduced in margins, dialogs, style of buttons, etc. in 8.1 really grinded my gears.
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Re:Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10 by dagw on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @08:44AM (#10937967)
Personally I think the OS is great. The problems are all on the app side.
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Re:Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10 by kelvin0 on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @09:40AM (#10938344)
Wow. I totally get your point, however it used to be that the OS was simply a platform to USE apps with which you do actual work. We've come a long way to this distorted weird dysfunctional belief ...
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