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.
TBH I've only seen a couple of "rotten" machines in the last few years. It's not all that bad.
Regarding WP, it's a fucking mess. I've had two handsets now and while it's a good product at the core, some of the decisions (such as isolated storage) are just shit. It's virtually impossible moving data around apps except using cut and paste or network access. Also, the network and connection management stuff is painful if you have to switch between 3.5G and WiFi. The battery life on my last handset (a Lumia 710) was abysmal even with no apps installed and everything cleaned out. Oh and long term support is just crap - look at the palava around the 7.8 upgrade.
My other half's Galaxy Ace is actually pretty crap as well TouchWiz is horrible, it's slow and the screen is crap. Everyone I know with a Galaxy S2/S3 is not satisfied with it.
I got given an iPhone 4S as well (which the proximity sensor had packed in on) which was horrible as well - iOS UI is so noisy, the handset is obviously suspect if the proximity sensor doesn't even work (didn't work properly from purchase date) and you can't even replace the battery.
All this pushed me back to grabbing a Nokia 6303 until I found out that the things are changing hands for £100GBP+ now from people who have given up on SmartPhones.
I have smallish hands (octave+2 on piano) and large fingers (official from my accordion teacher) and I can take a photo and pop it out as an attachment to an email with caption single handed from the ancient Rio or my current Blackberry. Each to his/her own.
I have a iphone 4 and it just works, good reception, 3g, wifi, gps/igo, battery life, ux, i'm totally happy with it. I even dropped it and drove over it accidentally, so the back looks like shit but orherwise it just took it.
I own a Galaxy S (first gen) with Touchwiz-enabled Android 2.3.6 on it.
My next phone is going to be a Nexus, but the first generation of Galaxy S is the best phone I ever owned and it replaced my iPhone 3GS. Battery life lasts for 4 days of normal usage, after I installed an app from Google Play that disables data/wifi when in standby or at night, otherwise it lasts for 2 days.
I tried upgrading, but battery life is too important to me and the device is too under-powered for newer Android versions, not to mention that all Exynos devices, such as the Galaxy S family, have problems with custom ROMs like CyanogenMod because of a lack of source-code for drivers. Phones like Sony Xperia T are much, much better in this regard.
Also I discovered that even though Jelly Bean is completely awesome when it comes to UI and new features, it doesn't really do anything groundbreaking that my Gingerbread doesn't do. I do have 2 or 3 apps that have been bundled by Samsung, but I just ignore them. Considering that I got the phone for $20 on a reasonable contract, it was a steal anyway.
And can your Windows Phone or your iOS device block phone calls / sms messages? Can it save battery life by turning data on or off on schedule? Can it run Firefox? I thought so.
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.