There are debates being held on and off line, aiming at determining which mobile device and which operating system are the best ever. Early in almost any discussion, you find participants comparing the Galaxy Note 3 with iOS 8.
Everyone is just mixing apples with oranges in these debates, and I blame the corporations for that. Operating systems are not devices! At least, they shouldn’t be.
Please allow me to state the obvious; when I see a Samsung, I see two distinctive things; the device hardware itself, which I have never found to my preference, and then there is the Android OS, which in my opinion is not really the operating system for professionals, it is not very secure, and you are stuck with all the mandatory Samsung apps that you cannot remove. The same goes for an iPhone, Robust H/W, which may be lacking on camera and some other hardware features, but otherwise very well built. And then there is the iOS; very secure, but not business oriented, and so restrictive that it is just frustrating.
According to the statistics, more than 89% of desktop and laptop operating systems globally are some version of Microsoft Windows, yet Windows mobile only claims 2.83% of the global mobile market share. The mobile device global market is controlled by Android at 47%, and iOS at almost 44%.
Like the 89% of users on the planet, I use Windows OS on my desktop. And let me tell you; what I would love to have more than anything, is the same operating system on all my devices.
Have I ever, or will I ever buy a Windows tablet or phone? Not likely, I don’t like their devices. I also don’t like the fact that they insist on having slimmed-down versions of Windows for their devices.
Anyone who has ever had any sort of rudimentary sales training or experience knows that a customer will buy a product because they want it, and a service because they need it. Stick to the basics guys, let me buy what I want!
Currently, I have an Xperia Z1 compact. The only thing this device needs to become perfect in every way is Windows 8.1 for an OS! I can’t have that. Microsoft won’t let me, because “it’s not Intel-based architecture”.
I wish corporations would allow absolute user freedom in selecting the device, and then selecting the OS to go with it, if this is ever attempted; I firmly believe that Microsoft will become the undisputed world leader for ages to come. But a few numb-skulls at Microsoft had a better idea.. They went and acquired Nokia!