Yes, I'm VERY interested in all things Windows 10, but perhaps most of all, mobile.
I'm not one who's committed to just one platform or another, and in fact, I'm actively endeavoring to be as deeply immersed in all three of the major platforms as I can. I hope within the next year or so to have an iPhone, a Nexus AND a Lumia/Surface. Right now I only have the iPhone6+ (in fact, it's what this is typed on). The Nexus 6p, I plan to get at tax time, and the Lumia950XL or future Surface phone I plan to get whenever Microsoft and Verizon can start playing nice (I had originally planned to get the Lumia alongside the Nexus this tax time, but after everything went down with Big Red, I've modified my plans to go for the Pixel C instead.) I figure they'd all just take turns sharing custody of my Verizon sim.
My mobile pedigree is in Apple secondarily (two phones historically including this one as well as my current iPadAir2) and Android primarily (four phones historically including one Nexus and three 3rd party, an HP Touchpad tablet hacked to run cyanogen cm12 Lollipop, an OUYA, a Roku, and a JiDe Remix mini that I just unboxed last night).
In terms of how I personally feel concerning Apple vs Android, while at the end of the day I like them both, and feel they are both totally worthy platforms for powering these amazing tools / toys we carry with us everywhere, ultimately (to use the "left brain/right brain" distinction), my left brain favors Apple, and my right brain favors Android. I could elaborate, but I think that makes the point pretty well.
Historically on desktop computing, I'm almost evenly split between PC and Mac, with most of the time that I've owned computers having both a Mac and a PC in the house at the same time (as I do right now). Overall, though, I've always preferred Mac.....
.....so it's with that backstory in place that we get to the dawn of the Windows Insider program. As a Mac and Android user at the time, taking an old HP laptop my wife had just replaced, and a little Lumia 520 I bought very shortly after, when they were only going for $20, I started the insider journey basically as a curiosity, a novelty - with something of a smirk on my face....
...and over the course of that time, I became passionately sold on the idea, and strategy, and approach, and "vision" of Windows 10!!!! I'm a real fan and true believer now! I absolutely love Windows 10 desktop, so much so that I think for the first time EVER I may actually find myself preferring Windows over Mac. I really like Tablet Mode, though I know some people don't. Bit more important, I love that there is a tablet mode in the first place! Perhaps the biggest draws for me, even bigger that 10 desktop itself are the "Universal Windows Platform" (UWP), "Windows as a Service" (WaaS), and Continuum.
Windows has a HEEEEEUUUUUGE hill to climb out of if its going to be competitive in the mobile market. Let's just get that right out there. But with a totally unified ecosystem even reaching to the XBox - and beyond, with universal apps, and a fluid, shape-shifting environment via Continuum, I think they have -----BY FAR----- the most interesting, promising, compelling, and progressive "vision" of them all! Nobody even comes close! Now, whether MS will be able to capitalize on it or whether it's all too late remains to be seen. But in terms of the vision itself, there's nothing like it, and without Phone, the vision doesn't really make a ton of sense, so I don't see W10M going away any time soon - and very much want to get in on the action myself!!
Now, to plug Windows into the "left brain/right brain" distinction I had used for Apple and Android earlier, I'd say Windows, with its ultra-compelling vision, and all the [eventual] potential that brings comes in first in my right brain (even above Android). However, with the huge app gap, a piddly 2.7% market share and all the other hurdles it has to overcome to even stand a chance long term, I'd have to say it definitely comes in dead last in the left brain.
BUT, I have become something of a cheerleader and advocate for Windows in a way unlike I am for Android, and especially Apple....at least as much as I can be for one a) who is typing this on an Apple, b) who is installing Apps on the world's first Android-powered "true PC" upstairs.
One other analogy I'll marshal: I'm huge into retro gaming, particularly the 4th gen (aka the 16-bit console wars) I once wrote an 8- part series on it in a now defunct online video game magazine totaling roughly 60 pages. My most basic point was to take the popular perceived hierarchy which reads "SNES/SFC is best, TG16/PCE is worst, and Genesis/Megadrive is in the middle" and make the case for why that hierarchy should be flattened to [for all intents and purposes] an effective three-way tie/draw/stalemate (you take your pick). But while I maintain that they're all basically level, over the years of trying to defend and elevate TG16, it's become more precious to me and I've become something of a cheerleader for it, while I'm more ready to downplay the SNES as I feel that pop gamer society has it technically overrated, and sometimes find myself being almost antagonistic to a system that at the end of the day I love and esteem and value just as much as the other.
Well, it's more or less he same with the big three in mobile. The analogy should be real easy to see: In my estimation, under this rubric, iPhone, great, though overrated is the SNES, while the amazing, scrappy underdog Windows phone that is so underrated is the TG16, and Android being the only one that is more or less fairly assessed (or perhaps just a little underrated) is the only 16-bit video game console to be more or less fairly assessed (and again, perhaps a tad underrated) - the Genesis.
In fact, I'm so sold on this analogy that should I realize my goal of having all three phones at once, I'm gonna use custom ringtone/notification sounds on all three, and all the sounds on the iPhone will be from the SNES, on the Nexus from the Genesis, and on the Lumia/Surface from the TG16.
Anyway, all that just to say this: Yes, I'm VERY enthusiastic about Turbografx16.....er......Windows Phone, and plan to have one as soon as carrier entanglements have disentangled.
Cheers!
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