So as I went to bed the other night, I heard a commercial discussing different options and/or features of the new Windows phone. While I admit, I was not paying that much attention to it (I'm pretty happy with the iPhone), what did catch my attention was the fact that it is now compatible with Mac computers. I couldn't help but think this was unnecessary and perhaps maybe a little dumb.
If I were to buy a windows phone, it would most likely be for the sole reason of having an operating system similar to that of the one on my computer. If that differs, then the windows phone doesn't really provide that many useful features to me.
I got to thinking though that I bought an iphone when I had a pc (I now have a Mac), but I still felt that the two were not as different as the windows phone being used on a mac. The iPhone, from my point of view, is almost an autonomous device. While an apple product, it can be used as its own phone and personal assistant-type device and also an ipod. While it was not designed necessarily for pc's, the transition into that realm doesn't seem too crazy to me.
But in terms of expanding from pc's to mac's when thinking about a window's phone, it seems that they are trying to be too centralized and condense too many things when they should just stick with the operating system the phone was created for in the first place. While I'll admit that I have not done much research, or even played with the Windows phone, it still seems that having a phone based on one operating system that is compatible with another system that one may not have on another computer, would be unnecessary and perhaps problematic.
I do have to admit that those are pretty cool commercials! I guess that is a good feature to the Windows phone in a way though. Because you went from a PC to a Mac so what about if you did that when you had the Windows phone? You would be pretty pissed if you phone wouldn't work anymore just because you got a different computer.
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