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Hmm…

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201204-201304

3 days ago on Windows Phone overtakes BlackBerry to claim third place in 2013 smartphone shipments

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What a load of BS dumbo. I’m not a native English speaker and international language support of BB10 is excellent. It supports at least 50 languages and I can switch keyboard layouts. It even detects the language I start to type in and switches the language for the word suggestions. Even if I use different languages in the same text.

So it just shows that of course you are just a troll who has never used BB10. Yet you make stuff up. Claiming that WP deals better with this is even more ridiculous. I used a WP phone for more than two years and it just had support for English, German, French, Spanish and Italian built in.

3 days ago on BlackBerry 10.1 rolling out to Z10 starting today, will reach US carriers by end of May

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We have MicroUSB because China forced every phone in china to have it and be sold without charger. Then EU made same choice.

Nope. China enforced in 2007 only the use of USB for charging but they did not enforce the use of a specific connector type back than:

How to conform to China’s new mobile phone interface standards
Crystal LAM Yan Yan and Harry LIU Yao Hui, ON Semiconductor
10/22/2007 3:24 PM EDT
[…]
Electrical characteristics of USB charger interface
The new regulation requires all handsets to provide a USB interface for battery charging and data transmission purpose. It is however flexible for the phone vendor to decide on the interface on the handset itself. If it is not compliant to the USB type A connector standard, an adapter cable with USB connectivity will have to be provided.

Source:
http://eetimes.com/design/communications-design/4016269/How-to-conform-to-China-s-new-mobile-phone-interface-standards

Also in that year a group of mobile network operators and manufacturers agreed to settle on Micro USB. But still a lot of non Micro USB chargers we sold in the EU after that. Most of them made in China… It took another 2 years of political pressure from consumer and government initiatives within the EU to get several commitments of the industry and of standard bodies in 2009 to agree to a common Micro USB connector. This was then put formally into the EPS standard.

While China updated their rules in 2009 but there are still several different connectors allowed like different Mini-USB variants and cylindrical connectors.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in

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I was not talking about open or closed source protocols either. You don’t understand. Whether a certain standard is open or not is not related at all to open or closed source software. In fact most open standards are implemented by closed source software.

Anyway, sorry the second part of my comment was not really directed at you but to the readers and the Verge. I really couldn’t care less what you like or not. Well you don’t even know what the difference is between open standards and open source… So there is no point in discussing standard issues with you.

Also if you are fine being tied to one single device that is ok. But many people would like to use IM on their tablets or laptops or game consoles. I just pointed out that because Whatsapp doesn’t support this is the reason that Whatsapp sucks. It is not much better than SMS though it could be.

3 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply

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Oh, look another know nothing. You don’t know what you are talking about. Obviously you jumped on the word “open”. But open standards are not related in any way to open source software.

Last but not least the whole internet exists just because corporations settled on open standards.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply

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But most users of Whatsapp in Germany are teenagers or students. Businesses do not use Whatsapp.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply

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Nope. If you don’t like Skype you just leave. Most of my important contacts agreed that they don’t want to move to Skype for IM. Currently we are debating where to go.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 recommend

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There is no such thing as a real ID-less account for IM services. Whether it is called a PIN or some other number or ID doesn’t matter. But WhatsApp is tied to your mobile phone number. Whatsapp actually uses XMPP (which is mentioned in the article) and could be a generic XMPP service. But they decided to use the mobile phone number for ID. This is the reason that you can only use one device with Whatsapp and it has to be a phone. Which is why whatsapp sucks.

They did that to create their own little walled garden also Verge authors like to call “ecosystem”.

You cannot celebrate walled gardens called “ecosystems” and bash companies for not having one and lamenting the end of open internet standards at the same time.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply

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Yep. We have Micro USB because the EU forced the industry to settle on that. But this is of course socialism.

4 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply 5 recommends

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I just installed 10.1. I’m on O2 (Germany).

5 days ago on BlackBerry 10.1 rolling out to Z10 starting today, will reach US carriers by end of May

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He is just a troll.

5 days ago on BlackBerry 10.1 rolling out to Z10 starting today, will reach US carriers by end of May 1 reply