I just tried to download a Netflix app for my phone from Microsoft. You have to be a MS Live user to download this. Strike one. I have an account from the PassPort days because of my MCP logins so that is not a really big deal.
I signed in and it took me to a screen to confirm that I am who I am. This sucks but whatever I uncheck all of the garbage about "please send me info on......" and click next. Well, strike 2! you have to sign up for some kind of SPAM in order to get to the next screen. I did not. I will not. This is worse than having to have iTunes installed for your iPhone. At least iTunes does not spam you I don't think.
To get around this I think, hey, this is for a mobile phone let me try this on my phone. I did the google search and found the same site and low and behold, it does not work on their own antique browser! Strike 3!!! You can't even write a web page for your own @$#%@%@ browser? Really? The download did not work from the phone either.
The moral of the story is that I may look into getting that iPhone after all. I will have to see if it can do RDP, eWallet, and Call Log 2 Contacts. Maybe we can look at the Palm Pre.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Windows Mobile becomes Windows Phone
If you have read more than a couple of my posts over the years you know I love my Windows Mobile 6.1 AT&T Tilt. It is the thing that lets me do the stuff I do for a living. I can RDP into a server whilst talking to a client at the same time. I can read email, check the weather, navigate to a destination, and then blog about it. It is a music player, laptop, and electronic wallet all in one. I love it but I need to share an open letter to Microsoft, AT&T, and HTC.
Microsoft, you and I have known each other for a long time. I don't want to talk about your desktops and servers but we need to talk about your mobile software. I want to like it but you screw up everything you touch. You come out with Windows Phone 6.5 and with it give us another name for your mobile OS. You have Windows CE, PocketPC, Windows Mobile, and now Windows Phone. Make up your mind! It looks like you are on the right track with version 6.5 but how would I know? There are only a couple of devices that run 6.5 and my awesome Tilt does not take the upgrade. That brings me to you HTC.
HTC, I started with your AT&T 3100 (StarTrek). It was just what I needed. I had to beg AT&T to sell me the no camera model but that is the past. I like your Tilt, this is a work of art. Well, thick, battery hungry, art. Your phones like the Tilt 2 and the Leo may be nice but those are not out there right now. What have you been up to lately? People like me that have phones that cost more than many laptops want power, performance, a no camera (or at least lockable camera), and carrier independence. If you put the HD2 out there I would buy it but you insist on sending it to Europe only. What is the problem? What more do you want from me?
AT&T, you see Microsoft and HTC and you get those silly cartoon dollar signs in your eyes and start hyper ventilating. No one thinks that is cool. Stop putting your name on the phones, stop trying to trick me into a data plan that has text messaging, and stop trying to be cool. No one likes AT&T, no one. I worked there for 3 years and I hate your company. You pay for fancy swanky stores that is understaffed and all they want to do is sell me DSL or a satellite dish or something. DO THE BASICS FIRST. I know you have to sell phones to teenagers and children trapped in twenty something bodies but don't forget who pays their bills. I have had the same phone number and service since May of 2000! What do I get? Nothing!!!! I can get a reduced activation fee if I pay too much for a phone and sign up for 2 more years. NO THANKS. I have been off of a plan for 2 years now and you act like you don't care. The amount of money you spend to get a new customer is more than the cost of the Tilt 2 that I want but you don't care to keep me.
HTC is not putting the phones in my hand that I want at any price. Microsoft can't update their OS without changing the name and 2 years of delays. And AT&T does not love their customers and only look to sucker children into buying pink and glitter speckled phones while turning away people in camera-phobic job fields. AT&T, you are the worst one of all. Microsoft and HTC makes one sale and they are done. You make money off of me every month and you hate me the most. Shameful.
To sum up... I want a new phone and do not want a camera, contract, or glitter. I am having a hard time dealing with this.
Microsoft, you and I have known each other for a long time. I don't want to talk about your desktops and servers but we need to talk about your mobile software. I want to like it but you screw up everything you touch. You come out with Windows Phone 6.5 and with it give us another name for your mobile OS. You have Windows CE, PocketPC, Windows Mobile, and now Windows Phone. Make up your mind! It looks like you are on the right track with version 6.5 but how would I know? There are only a couple of devices that run 6.5 and my awesome Tilt does not take the upgrade. That brings me to you HTC.
HTC, I started with your AT&T 3100 (StarTrek). It was just what I needed. I had to beg AT&T to sell me the no camera model but that is the past. I like your Tilt, this is a work of art. Well, thick, battery hungry, art. Your phones like the Tilt 2 and the Leo may be nice but those are not out there right now. What have you been up to lately? People like me that have phones that cost more than many laptops want power, performance, a no camera (or at least lockable camera), and carrier independence. If you put the HD2 out there I would buy it but you insist on sending it to Europe only. What is the problem? What more do you want from me?
AT&T, you see Microsoft and HTC and you get those silly cartoon dollar signs in your eyes and start hyper ventilating. No one thinks that is cool. Stop putting your name on the phones, stop trying to trick me into a data plan that has text messaging, and stop trying to be cool. No one likes AT&T, no one. I worked there for 3 years and I hate your company. You pay for fancy swanky stores that is understaffed and all they want to do is sell me DSL or a satellite dish or something. DO THE BASICS FIRST. I know you have to sell phones to teenagers and children trapped in twenty something bodies but don't forget who pays their bills. I have had the same phone number and service since May of 2000! What do I get? Nothing!!!! I can get a reduced activation fee if I pay too much for a phone and sign up for 2 more years. NO THANKS. I have been off of a plan for 2 years now and you act like you don't care. The amount of money you spend to get a new customer is more than the cost of the Tilt 2 that I want but you don't care to keep me.
HTC is not putting the phones in my hand that I want at any price. Microsoft can't update their OS without changing the name and 2 years of delays. And AT&T does not love their customers and only look to sucker children into buying pink and glitter speckled phones while turning away people in camera-phobic job fields. AT&T, you are the worst one of all. Microsoft and HTC makes one sale and they are done. You make money off of me every month and you hate me the most. Shameful.
To sum up... I want a new phone and do not want a camera, contract, or glitter. I am having a hard time dealing with this.
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