![]() Which I am, but clearly, not 100% of the time.įor others (those who are in the dating game) apps such as ‘Grindr’ and ‘Hinge’ are all they use all day long. Telling them that Snapchat wasn’t on my choice of platform was met with sheer bewilderment at both the possibility of Snapchat not being available for somebody toting a smartphone, and also that I seemed to be ok with that. “Hey, Andy, why aren’t you on this, it’s hil-ar-ious!” they said to me as I tried ever-so hard to join in with the laughs. This Windows Phone user felt somewhat excluded from all the hilarity. The only time I’ve hankered after Snapchat is when I was visiting a summer camp I used to work at full-time, and all of the adults who were working (and living) with me were constantly chuckling at various Snapchat photos that were going around. And even if it isn’t a huge deal to people every day, a massive number of phone users would be unhappy to ‘settle’ for a platform that lacks it, because, quite simply, friends like to share experiences together, however asinine, because that’s where fun usually lives. It’s easy for geekanoids like myself to scoff and roll my eyes at the mention of ‘Snapchat’, but to a lot of people, that app is almost becoming their main social media platform. For them, switching away from either their Androids or their iPhones would make them just miserable because they rely – on a daily basis – on the very apps that are missing from Windows Phone. I can live quite happily without some of the big-name, popular apps right now, but I know many simply could not. ![]() I concede that Windows Phone needs some serious help in the app department, but when I say that, I’m speaking on behalf of the many mobile users out there and not really for me, personally. I often chat with my techie friends about the state of Windows Phone and I am often asked why I am still so staunchly ‘for’ it, despite the platform having some serious problems right now. ![]() From Andy's article on his OneStopTech blog: ![]()
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