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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by kirse on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @05:56PM (#8956731)
You'll have to back up your "shit app store" claim in regards to Windows Phone... I decided try out all-MS with the purchase of a Nokia Icon last year and the integration has been phenomenal. I've also noticed only one bug (in IE of course), and the phone rarely restarts itself like my Droid Maxx often does. Rudy Huyn also creates solid clones of every single popular Andy/iOS app.

The UI is cleaner, Nokia Maps > Google Maps especially for Navigation (full GPS offline nav has saved me more than once), complete MS Office app integration, Outlook email client is slick, camera is better than Android/iOS, OneDrive integration works perfectly. I've been very surprised at how well executed it is, and 8.1 promises to be even better with Cortana, etc.

To date I've had one app that didn't have an equivalent from WinPhone devs, that was the Amazon Seller App. Then again, I don't spend time playing phone games so I'm not the target market. I keep a Droid Maxx around in case there's a niche app I absolutely must use.

Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by cmelbye on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @12:59AM (#8958371)
Are you serious? Maybe things have changed, but when I had a Windows Phone and did a (hopeful) search for any mildly popular app, I was greeted search results full of blatant rip offs. Same name, same icon, except published by some random dude in China.
Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by 72deluxe on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @05:50AM (#8959109)
Maybe he's running the rip-offs and believing that they're the "real" ones?
Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by 0942v8653 on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @09:14AM (#8959876)
iOS App Store search is not much better.