As a Major Incident Manager for one of the largest software companies in the world, I will tell you that you are absolutely wrong. Experience as a Sys Admin does not give you the kind of perspective needed to judge these events.

I am, and your last sentence is why I responded. You can’t simply look at overall market share to determine trends.

See: http://www.caferio.com/

This is why I live in Salt Lake City.

You have to consider the rest of the world. Trends aren’t always set here.

no one really cares about Windows Phone.

I’m one of the guys who has dabbled in your area, the hardware area, and now is in incident management. It’s my job to take my experience from all these areas, and work with you folk to build in redundancies to prevent the softpocalypse (while also handling major incidents).

I wouldn’t say that. I’ve seen just as many arrogant, self-righteous Android users tossing stones at Microsoft without the slightest clue of how it all works.

Push the vendor to actually fix the issue. Suggesting that people just wipe everything and start over is an insanely stupid idea.

Something tells me this isn’t a natural bulge...

THANK YOU!

That is an absurd suggestion.

Then you’re lying.

That’s a really broad and totally inaccurate statement. Every smartphone has different hardware, firmware, and software. There is no common point across all smartphones.

Yeah, I was going to say that’s not how it usually goes.

My aunt went to school with her. This makes more sense than you know, being a Utahn and all...

The part that drives me nuts is that, beyond all the cheap (but somewhat attractive) styling on the outside, its like they hit the snooze button on the inside!

Not unless they stop with all the plastic cladding on the interior.

This is my punishment for accidentally clicking Jezebel, instead of Jalopnik.

You know, there are a lot of people out there who enjoy stuff like this. A LOT.