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infernal machines posted:except according to all the reviews it's also just awful at being a tablet/pda too. like, nothing about it runs well or is properly designed for the form factor, and then you have the usual android jank under that fair although my needs are pretty limited. i’d like a two page e reader tbh and not two columns with a ton of margins. xcloud, web browsing. maybe emulators. kind of all i’d use an android device for. they really should have built up better business software for it outside of office though admittedly i couldn’t tell you what that would look like. typical microsoft tho, iffy software but great hardware.
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mediaphage posted:fair although my needs are pretty limited. i’d like a two page e reader tbh and not two columns with a ton of margins.
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Schadenboner posted:"You're needing it wrong"
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sleepwalkers posted:that’s not a need, and you can get that with nearly any tablet in landscape mode. lmao go gently caress yourself
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WP7 was amazing. They shot themselves in the foot, leg, and face with the WP7 -> WP8 -> WP10 transition. Absolutely terribly managed and shameful.
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DoomTrainPhD posted:WP7 was amazing. They shot themselves in the foot, leg, and face with the WP7 -> WP8 -> WP10 transition. Absolutely terribly managed and shameful. microsoft outspent google and apple like 2:1 combined on ads, events, product placement, massively favorable news coverage, etc. for a full year and nobody bought winpho 7 qirex fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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qirex posted:microsoft outspent google and apple like 2:1 combined on ads, events, product palcement, massively favorable news coverage, etc. for a full year and nobody bought winpho 7
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the instant they decided not to make it free for oems it was utterly doomed to lose to android
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qirex posted:windows phone 7 landed with as weak of a splat as the rest of microsoft's mobile efforts but the upgrade fiasco to 8 and 10 alienated most of their fanbase that was when microsoft were on their "everything must be c#" kick and, unsurprisingly, few developers were going to go through the trouble of rewriting their ios/android apps just for winpho
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i had an og winpho 7 device and then a second gen winpho 7/7.5 device for a few years. i really liked the lumia.
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the phone to save you from your phone. you see, we would rather you don't use our products. this is good marketing
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the obvious
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Google pushed out version 50 of Carrier Services, and afterward, many users—including Samsung, OnePlus, LG, Motorola, and TCL customers—have reported sending-and-receiving issues for SMS. Android Police says it has received some reports of users being automatically downgraded to the previous working version of the app, Carrier Services v48. If you want to check your version of Carrier Services, the easiest way is to open the system settings, hit the search button in the top right, type in "Carrier Services," and press the app info result for the Carrier Services app (it has a multi-colored puzzle piece next to it). If your Android skin has somehow broken the settings search feature (it happens), the long way is pressing on "apps & notifications," then "see all ~100 apps," then scrolling to find Carrier Services. Once you're on the App info screen, press "Advanced" at the bottom, and you should see the version string all the way at the bottom. If you're on version 50 and having problems, uninstalling app updates (available via the three-dot button in the top right) is a temporary fix.
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Clark Nova posted:Google pushed out version 50 of Carrier Services, and afterward, many users—including Samsung, OnePlus, LG, Motorola, and TCL customers—have reported sending-and-receiving issues for SMS. Android Police says it has received some reports of users being automatically downgraded to the previous working version of the app, Carrier Services v48. Is this an Aynrandroid thing or a Google Fi thing? 
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Clark Nova posted:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/google-breaks-sms-on-many-android-phones-is-rolling-back-changes-now/ I just updated all my apps and checked carrier services version and it was 48. Wow, what a shitshow, I wonder what broke within that component.
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starbucks hermit posted:I just updated all my apps and checked carrier services version and it was 48. Wow, what a shitshow, I wonder what broke within that component. Aynrandroid
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Last Chance posted:Anroid. lol
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Last Chance posted:Anroid.
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another day, another google product cancellation https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/google-kills-the-google-home-max-the-400-speaker-is-no-longer-in-production/ google home max
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FMguru posted:another day, another google product cancellation lmao i forgot that existed like five minutes after the press release i bet they sold some really embarrassing number of them, like a few hundred or something at the most
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mediaphage posted:lmao i forgot that existed like five minutes after the press release those microsoft fitness band numbers where there's more given away as promos inside the company than ever sold retail
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Google constantly produces hardware at the same price or a tiny bit cheaper than Apple with the hopes that people forget they aren’t Apple. Every time they fail to realize that their main products are free and nobody wants to pay premium pricing for a Google product.
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also "make a product that is useful and works properly" is way down their list of priorities from "make a product that shows ads and harvests data" and people recognize this and steer clear. google product managers in a meeting all "but we made it from anodized aluminum and used a sans-serif font!! what more do they want??" and someone says "have you tried asking the users what they want it to do" and that guy gets thrown out the window
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"omg he's so rich, too. everything he owns is Google brand"
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Sagebrush posted:also "make a product that is useful and works properly" is way down their list of priorities from "make a product that shows ads and harvests data" and people recognize this and steer clear.
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Endless Mike posted:lol no they don't
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Endless Mike posted:lol no they don't
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google home sucks because they’re trying to chase apple and amazon at the same time instead of having their own product vision. that said when left to their own devices their product vision is “creepy head computer that only works for an hour before the battery dies” so where they are now is probably as good as they’re capable of doing their whole company is built on early 2000s software process and everything that isn’t software they try to make it fit that mold because their leadership got rich that way so it’s the technically correct way to do everything
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