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1.) I'll start with the hardest one, No Multi-Tasking.
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So not be able to listen to music while say reading an email is acceptable after having this ability for quite some time--real innovation talking here...
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2.) No Side-Loading Application.
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I guess censorship in the marketplace shouldn't bother anyone, frankly I'm getting ready to go to a book burning right now as I type. Having the ability to delete apps from your phone without user permission is all good especially when the carriers go crying to Microsoft about bandwidth or other concerns--hey where did that netflix app go?
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3.) No Backward Compatibility.
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I can live with this one, no harm no foul...
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4.) No Copy and Paste.
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I guess businesses should just avoid this phone altogether then, I copy and paste contacts, emails, and links daily on my phone. Considering I run an IT department for a college, I probably don't know what my students/faculty/administration wants. Plus it's not like other phones have this ability.
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5.) No File System.
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I hope they pay Apple some serious money for stealing ALL of their ideas.
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6.) No removable storage.
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If the built in memory is someone between 32G and 64G, I can live with it...
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7.) No USB Drive Mode.
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Even though it has a file system, I can't even use it as a basic thumbdrive? How stupid is that? So much for one device in my pocket that can be used for everything. This will most likely be broken soon after release, so why waste our time with implementing it to begin with.
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8.) No 3rd Party UI Replacements/Customization.
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If it makes the phone more stable, I can live with it.
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9.) No Native Code Execution.
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I could have lived with it provided that Microsoft had little to say about whether or not an App is approved. But this just smells more like Apple type censorship. I can't wait for all you developers wasting months and resources creating apps only to have Microsoft deny them for no reason like Apple does, just please don't complain to us later on about it.
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For all the new great things this phone does, it breaks what made it Windows. There is NOTHING Windows-ish about this phone. They should have just called it AppleMobile7, or ZunePhone and killed the product line called Windows Mobile.
Time will only tell who is right and who is wrong.
All I know is this, sitting back and waiting to see what Microsoft dictates to us isn't going to accomplish anything. The only way to make change is to complain about it and hope that mainstream media outlets pick up the story and bash Microsoft article after article and then maybe they'll come to their senses. Every day the Android EVO is looking better and better.