[Windows Phone 7 General] freddy28:
I agree, from a customer point of view it would've been better that M$ launched their phone a year later then they actually did. Here's why I'm more and more pissed:

1. Copy and Paste and Performance Update - that's not really a dramatic update but it takes microsoft nearly half a year for those minor changes. Hey, they postponed their NoDo at least 3 Times (February, beginning of march, end of march), that's not a glorious achievement in the fast paced mobile devices market.

2. Not to forget the update troubles with my Omnia 7 or the the problems with toast notifications with 3rd party apps, the limitations of the software (html5, multitasking) and the missing interfaces (api's) for developers. I recommended a friend of mine the same WP7 a couple of weeks ago because he wanted an easy to use smartphone with a nice UI. What was the result: he was totally frightened with the error messages from zune while he tried to update his phone to 7008 last week - of course he called me to support him for the installation...thanks M$ for the idiot proof and working update procedure.

3. Apps conclusion: Half a year since the launch.We have nearly 10.000 apps, nothing to complain about the growth and that's quite a good message. But where are the quality apps? Where's an offline Turn by turn navigation you can actually buy with cards of north america and europe? Where's a banking app, where's an RDP or Citrix or VM App to access distant PC's or VM's, where's where's where's...I could extend this list forever. When I open up my bookmarks on my desktop pc (ok, that's oldschool) I know that they have an app for android and iOS but sadly not for WP7. Sure some of those apps are useless, but some of those would add a value - mostly because of the added toast notifications or the easier navigation.

4. Apps Part 2: What's the intention of the Marketplace? Do you (M$) test the Apps before they appear? Where's the QA before you publish apps?

Just a few examples which I stumbled upon, there's a lot more and the forums are full of error reports:

-"Board Express for Tapatalk": Regulard crashes to homescreen while browsing XDA-developers forum.

-"Windows Phone News": Crash and freezing after starting the app.

-"Marketplace Search": Never seen such a laggy app.

-"Samsung Actal": Makes sound even if I muted my phone

-"Fruit Ninja": Using the mute function causes the whole phone to be muted (until unmute ingame or until reboot)

It's a shame because these are all known bugs and everyone could easily reproduce them in a couple of minutes of use.

5. I have an Iphone 4 for my business and I'm not poud of owning cupertino crapware but I had no choice and I have to admit that this **** device never, never ever frustrated me the way my private WP7 did. It just works and never crashed and no app ever crashed me to the ugly iOS. And this is exactly what I want from my WP7. Just missed the end of an ebay auction because toast notification doesn't correctly work on my wp7.

6. Most Big companies do not develop or port their apps for WP7. There is no work in progress AT THE MOMENT. This is an illusion if you think that this is the case. They wait and see if WP7 will penetrate the market or not - as of now this is totally unsure what will happen with WP7. I work for a big software company and that's our strategy: Focus development on Android and iOS. We want to grow and we need a Ecosystem with a significant market share. Developing apps for WP7 now is as uninteresting as developing for Linux, WebOs or other niche operating systems because of the small customer base. We'd only develop for WP7 AT THE MOMENT if Microsoft would lure us with money. Oh, btw that's what they actually did with some other hard/software companies (Nokia is a fact, Rovio and Popcap are rumors) ;-)

7. Using Bing Maps in EMEA: Urgh, this app is totally ugly, outdated and due to the lack of information and interactivity totally useless here.

I'm still a big Microsoft Fan but I think I'll have to focus more on their enterprise segment. They have really (very) good quality software in this market and you can rely on them.