Re: The 10 Worst Smartphones Of All Time

On 2024-05-01 09:15, News wrote:

On 5/1/2024 12:09 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-05-01 06:55, News wrote:

On 4/30/2024 6:16 PM, Tyrone wrote:

On Apr 30, 2024 at 5:47:10 PM EDT, "News" <News@Group.Name> wrote:
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On 4/30/2024 5:28 PM, Tyrone wrote:

On Apr 30, 2024 at 11:07:13 AM EDT, ""badgolferman""
<REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
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https://www.slashgear.com/798620/the-10-worst-smartphones-of-all-time/
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-- Galaxy Note 7
-- HTC First
-- Amazon Fire Phone
-- Blackberry Storm
-- Kyocera Echo
-- Samsung Galaxy Fold
-- RED Hydrogen One
-- iPhone 6
-- HTC EVO 3D
-- V Mobile N8-N

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Nice list.  8 Android phones, 1 Blackberry and 1 Apple.  Looks like Apple is
doing just fine.

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No 'worst' WinPhones

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That's because they all sucked. It would be impossible to single one out of
the huge, ugly mess that was "Windows Phones".

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Had apps, tiles, and native Office functionality before Jobs stole them, like he did from Xerox PARC, but what do you know.
1. The first Windows Phone came out more than 3 YEARS after the first

iPhone.
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2. When the first Windows Phone was released in October 2010, the iPhone had already had an App Store for more than 2 years.
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3. Jobs didn't steal anything from Xerox PARC, and some of what you THINK was taken from there was actually invented by Apple.

 Win CE in 2002, but what do you know.

"Windows Phones" not "Windows phones".
See the capital "P" there now, sunshine?
Oh, and when you mentioned "tiles", you were definitely referencing the later Windows Phone.

 Zerox PARC mouse and GUI, but what do you know.

1. The mouse existed PRIOR to PARC and Apple licensed it not from Xerox, but from SRI International.
2. The GUI that Apple used had many differences from the one at Palo Alto Research Centre:
'For more than a decade now, I've listened to the debate about where the Macintosh user interface came from. Most people assume it came directly from Xerox, after Steve Jobs went to visit Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). This "fact" is reported over and over, by people who don't know better (and also by people who should!). Unfortunately, it just isn't true - there are some similarities between the Apple interface and the various interfaces on Xerox systems, but the differences are substantial.'
<https://www.folklore.org/On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.html?sort=date>
That's written by Bruce Horn:
'Bruce Lawrence Horn (born 1959[1]) is a programmer. He created the original Macintosh Finder and the Macintosh Resource Manager for Apple Computer. His signature is amongst those molded to the case of the Macintosh 128K. He has been a distinguished engineer at Siri and Language Technologies at Apple since June 2022.'