Well, even if you did really win, you would have still lost, your prize would have been a windows laptop, who wants one of those anyway?
"I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
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Re: "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
The great thing about the challenge is that it is a realistic example of something you'd want to do with your phone. Why, I'm planning on visiting two different cities for my next vacation.
It's handy if you live in a place where the weather at home is significantly different than the weather where you spend a lot of time (Michigan and New York state have this due to the Great Lakes weather patterns). When I'm sitting at work 20 miles south of my home, it's quite common for my home to be getting a major storm and my work to be bright and sunny. The differences can be more severe on further trips (going…
But is certainly no measure of phone performance or one phone "smoking" another.
Re: "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's handy if you live in a place where the weather at home is significantly different than the weather where you spend a lot of time (Michigan and New York state have this due to the Great Lakes weather patterns). When I'm sitting at work 20 miles south of my home, it's quite common for my home to be getting a major storm and my work to be bright and sunny. The differences can be more severe on further trips (going…
But is certainly no measure of phone performance or one phone "smoking" another.
With this I agree. While I think the point of "Windows Phone does things faster" is true for some sets of "faster", "faster" needs to be clearly defined as "not taking up your time" as opposed to actually running faster. "At a glance" might be the correct phrasing, the live tiles show you the information you need without needing to open the app.
That being said, I was merely replying to the OP's assertion that knowing the weather in two places at once isn't a good use case. It's no different than having clocks for two timezones.
Re: "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow. Just wow. Just when you think they couldn't possibly bungle this any further. tl;dr: MS rep apologizes and invites him back for a rematch. Because it's like he hasn't already won the challenge or something.
did you just provide a TLDR for a tweet?!
Well, in my case I have Twitter (and Facebook) banned at work.
Fortunately I'm the only one wasting my time on Hacker News, otherwise it'd be blocked as well.
Edit: the recommendation "flee any company that filters your Internet" also applies to my case.
Re: "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
#75I'm not certain how one would gain sufficient attention/interest to cause an effective response, but IIRC (and IANAL) such contests typically have rather strict laws to follow; the foremost but not sole reason being, to avoid being categorized as gambling. Another being to avoid being used or misused as a mechanism to distribute payments to favored parties (one reason for the ubiquitous disclaimers that employees of company XYZ are ineligible to participate).
If they are not adhering to the rules that define their contest, they may be at risk of some significant criminal infractions.
Re: "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely. The idea is just asking for trouble - there will always be at least some dude who feels that he was treaded unfairly and reallies up the internets. Plus I am not sure how important the "speed" factor for most users really is. There are the fuzzy Apples, the Androids of freedom, the business berrys, but I am not sure if speed is an adequate positioning.
The "speed" idea came from an older ad campaign which kindof made more sense. It basically said "get off your phone and spend more time with the people around you." So having a quick phone was positioned as a way to be more engaged in life.
Interesting. I can see that working but they would need to hammer that message much more consistently. Plus this should be really hard to get across as most people's experience with the Microsoft brand might be originating from desktop software/OS. And the experiences from that area are most likely contradicting the efforts of developing a "speedmaster" position.
Re: "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple would not have a contest. They would say. This is our product. We think it's awesome. You should think it's awesome too. If you don't want to buy it, don't. They wouldn't hold cheesy PR stunts to try and "prove" how much better they are.
Have we already forgotten the years of "I'm a PC" exaggerated comparison ads?
I do recall a lot of aggrieved Windows fanboys complaining about them – and each time concluding that the problem was failing to understand the priorities of average users or how badly the traditional PC market had failed the average user.
The situation is quite similar today with spec-obsessed Android reviewers failing to understand why everyone else is buying iPhones because most people just don't care about an extra 100Mhz or .3" screen size difference when the trade-off is a carrier-mangled UI or worse apps.
Re: "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
did you just provide a TLDR for a tweet?!
Following a twitter link involves copying the url, pasting it to the address bar, backspacing the "#!/" and adding "m." before twitter.com, because twitter's dumb hashbang scheme can't deal with noscript. Reading the tl;dr is much faster!
I use noscript and I get this horrible url, but it shows the correct tweet (i'm not logged in). Yet it's much better reading the posted tldr.
https://twitter.com/BenThePCGuy/statuses/184123838949359616?_escaped_fragment_=/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616