Android vs Windows Phone - Do People Really Want Competition?

Hello everyone!

It's been two days without posting... so here I am with a little Monday rant.

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When I traveled to Moscow last year, a lot of people told me it was a very dangerous city, where I would certainly be mugged and beaten up as soon as I would leave the hotel.

Well, that was a complete lie. I think people are watching too much TV.

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Anyway, because I had so many people annoying me about safety before I traveled, I got a cheap Android Phone and I thought of leaving my main phone - the Windows Phone - at the hotel. That proved to be totally unnecessary...

The first issues with Android started as soon as I turned on both phones at the hotel.

As you can see, there is a time difference of two hours between both phones, despite being in the same conditions. Both phones had:

• A working Portuguese SIM Card;
• A working WiFi Connection provided by the hotel;
• GPS Location turned on and working;
• Time Definitions set to Automatic.

Despite all of this, the stupid Android couldn't realise that the local time in Moscow was 2 hours ahead of Portugal. I waited for about 6 hours until the Android finally understood what Windows Phone had known all along: I had traveled to Moscow! Doh! 😅

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I honestly don't know why Windows Phone had no success or love... as an Operating System it works a thousand times better than Android.

• With Windows Phone, I don't have to keep clearing my cache or the RAM memory every two hours. The Operating System works flawlessly out of the box - no need to root, unlock, crack or do anything to it;

• The Microsoft Store is perfectly integrated with the Operating System and it simply works. In Android, there are some apps I cannot buy from the playstore because "Unexpected Error";

• Windows Phone saves all the photos, images and gifs to the same place, whereas Android saves the images in 20 or 30 different places and makes me dig for them, when I want to find some image I downloaded in the past;

• Windows Phone comes with a Full GPS, with Offline Maps included. I don't need to have Internet to be able to use it. Without a working Internet connection, Google Maps is as useless as a brick.

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In a world where everyone is always complaining about corporations having too much power and too much control over citizens, it's strange how 99% the crowd will end up buying the same thing and adopting the exact same consumer habits as their neighbours.

^{Source: Twitter}

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Tell me again, what do we need competition for, if everyone simply ignores it when it exists?

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Camera	Panasonic Lumix DC-TZ90
Location	Moscow - Russia
	Edited with GIMP

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