

The list of things that Windows Phone 7 can't do grows







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RE: Not Good Enough
By Gholam on 9/26/2010 2:46:02 AM , Rating: 1
Copy/paste - Easy enough to add. The iPhone didnt have it for ages and people still managed fine. Sure it will be added.

Question is, when? It took Apple years to add it, how long will it take Microsoft?

Multitasking - It does multitask the important core apps and not everything needs it.

How about letting the users decide who needs it and who doesn't? But we'll come back to it.

Native code support is absent (for now) - Dont care its not an open os and they give you plenty of development tools.

There's quite a bit of stuff that can't be done in Silverlight/XNA due to platform limitations.

Tethering - Again most are locked from the carrier but unlocked through applications.

...and on WP7, without native support, impossible to implement due to platform limitations that have nothing to do with carriers.

No Skype (or any VoIP) - These are generally carrier reasons like iPhone denied it because AT&T wanted you to use your minutes. Take up the issue with the carrier. iPhone would prefer to sell devices and care less where you get your service from.

Again, nothing to do with carriers. Silverlight doesn't do sockets, so VOIP is impossible.

Very limited VPN support - Can be resolved in an app but thsts more of a corporate request.

No it can't; as there is no multitasking or sockets. Even if you could make a VPN client for WP7, it'd be useless, as you wouldn't be able to actually do anything while it's active, or you'd break the connection.


I'm a current WM6.1 user, and was looking forward to switching to WP7 when it comes out, but the long list of missing features - lack of tethering being the proverbial straw - has pushed me into the Android camp. Looks like I'll be getting a Milestone 2 or a Desire Z, whichever first becomes available in my country.

