saposmak

Looks like you haven’t used Windows “since forever”.

Still poison.

Lizbet Shaw, really? ;)

The doppler effect one is cool, but none of these gesture-based systems will work well with a PC until they can accurately track finger gestures instead of arm gestures… Nobody wants to be waving at their computer; it’s exhausting over a long period of time. I’d go for this if it accurately tracked minimal finger and hand/wrist movements. As minimal as sliding a mouse through a surface or typing on a keyboard.

I love Windows Phone, and I still think my Focus S is the bees knees. But as time goes by this seems more and more like a losing battle. Mango was supposed to be the version that finally brought the ecosystem to parity with iOS and Android.

While in many aspects it did, there are still too many holes, too little developer interest in making their apps awesome (a lot of the apps in the marketplace have much better iOS counterparts), and badly-needed platform improvements are infrequent if non-existent.

I’m OK with this because I’m an early adopter. I can tolerate holes, missing features and minor bugs… But it’s time for Windows Phone to move from early-adopter territory into actual consumer territory. Apollo is supposed to be the version of Windows Phone that brings that on. I’d love to believe that, but the cynic in me is telling me we’re foolishly waiting for that Second Coming. We shall see. October might be too late.

This. I’d hope for something like the Jawbone Up (one that actually tracked shit) that’s constantly tracking all my activity, feeding it to the cloud and having all this information accessible via all my devices.

Ah yes, tracking the pull ups is an interesting problem. A portable Kinect sensor? A sensor-laden pull-up bar?

Just because those games exist on the iPhone and iPad doesn’t mean they provide a better gaming experience. Tell me, if you have the choice of playing the iOS version of Dead Space and the Xbox 360 version, which would you choose?

The fact of the matter is, iDevices and the Xbox serve two very different gaming markets. Sure, MS would love to have a huge casual gaming market the way iOS does, but iOS doesn’t even come close to equal when it comes to core gaming.

I’m still waiting for a p90X Kinect title…. It’d be the same as the videos but this one would actually track you, letting you know if your form is suspect. Also count reps for you so you never have to write shit down or put into the spreadsheet. That means you’d have statistics available to you automatically as you go through the workouts. How have they not thought of this yet?

I’m surprised I even have to state this (as it is completely obvious), but this is many times > Wii Fit.

iOS games are also a lot less complex and a lot more casual (5-10 min sessions) than Xbox games… It’s not an apples to oranges comparison.

If you’re happy with your phone now, why change it? If you’re not, then go with another platform. You can revisit Windows Phone when your contract is up, at which point it will be a very mature OS with a pretty established ecosystem.

Fail compared to what? Windows Vista, considered by many “a failure”, still sold 300+ million copies. Name me 5 consumer products that sell in such quantities. We can expect at least that amount of Windows 8 copies sold. If you want to go ahead and call that a failure, be my guest.

I think he was using the phrase sarcastically.

Maybe because Office Web Apps are purportedly poison.

He’s talking about multiple people using Microsoft Word 2010, the desktop, full-featured, non-poor-man’s-Microsoft-Word application, simultaneously, and it being continuously and seamlessly uploaded to Skydrive.

What a dumb survey. Nobody “plans” to use a technology that isn’t widely available yet. Especially something as delicate as a payment system. Did anybody “plan” to use credit cards before they appeared? Or pay their bills online?

If the mobile payment system is pervasive and takes off, I guarantee you those people who didn’t plan to use it will be using it as if it had always existed.

I have no immediate (or otherwise) plans to purchase LG phone hardware. When they start making something that’s not poo, consumers will vote with their wallets.