Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong
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Re: Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong
#2What the hell were they expecting?
Re: Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong
#3What the hell were they expecting?
it's MS, maybe 80% marketshare
Re: Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong
#4The funny thing is, there are plenty of things I don't like about Android. Areas where Windows might provide a better user experience.
But malware fearmongering is a bizarre tactic. For the vast vast vast majority of users, it's a hypothetical rather than an actual experience.
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#5I'm afraid I don't keep myself well-informed on the mobile space, and I've heard reference to malware in Android several times recently. Could someone fill me in? Is there fear of malicious software at the system level? Or is this just FUD about spammy apps?
edit: Also - it's unfortunate that only yesterday was I reading about the Scroogle campaign. Not to single out Microsoft as the only company that advertises like this, but it's sad to see them sinking to that level...
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#6Honestly, what were they thinking? Android has a large userbase with plenty of fanboys (I'm one of them). This is just another case of large corporations treating social media like another advertising platform instead of using it to interface with customers.
Win8 was a great idea (same interface on all of my devices? Great!) but Microsoft has really dropped the ball. I'm glad someone did it, now who's going to do it right?
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#7I couldn't read past the Steven J byline. That guy has lost all credibility, in my opinion.
Re: Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong
#8You can accuse or compliment microsoft on many things, but they've never been slick.
Re: Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong
#9Microsoft completely underestimated what the public still thinks of their brand when they start to fling the shit. Gonna be a loooooong time before they shake the reputation of being that company who makes the bloated OS/malware everywhere/Clippy.
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#10The funny thing is, there are plenty of things I don't like about Android. Areas where Windows might provide a better user experience. But malware fearmongering is a bizarre tactic. For the vast vast vast majority of users, it's a hypothetical rather than an actual experience.
Considering most windows users live in a sea of malware and I have yet to see a personal computer from one of my users that wasn't deeply infested, what makes MS think people actually care?
I hate that the WP product team, which has done a bang-up job, has to deal with incompetent marketing like this. Android has many, many unresolved and probably unresolvable problems. Buying a Nexus model solves most of these problems, but wow, what a goddamn mess Touchwiz and Sense based phones are. I had to wipe my wife's SGS2 and put CM9 on there just to stop a mystery battery drain that made her phone useless, even after many factory resets. Samsung blamed google and google blamed samsung and t-mobile blamed everyone but themselves. Way, way too many chefs here.
Apple and MS get it. You don't give carriers and OEM control over your mobile OS, because they will be poor stewards of it. Once my Nexus gets long in the tooth I might move to WP8. It looks pretty sharp.