I bought the Icon because of this article (All-new Windows Phone experience: Lumia Cyan update - Conversations : now part of Microsoft) & the promise of Windows 8.1. My Contract was ending 8/8/14 & was looking to trade in my Android phone. I really did like my HTC Incredible 4g LTE but was enticed with Cortana & the Windows 8 platform. My wife has the iPhone 5 but I am not an Apple guy but I did like Siri. Cortana just sounded so much cooler.
It has been a month & no update to their "flagship" windows phone but instead release an HTC with 8.1 pre-installed. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
T-Mobile & AT&T has offered to pay my ETF; I am thinking about switching.
Verizon, what say you?!
Bait-and-switch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pretty clear to me.
Using google search and Wikipedia does not make you intelligent or correct in this situation. You may be correct about the original definition/baseline meaning of the phrase but that does not limit it in how it can be used. Bait and switch can be applied to almost anything, the tactic can be used across all boards.
Here's an example:
say you are internet dating and you are led to believe you have met an intelligent young woman, you are set up for a date Friday night. There's your bait.
Friday night rolls around and you go to meet up at the restaurant for your date, oh crap not really a woman but a man who led you to believe he is a young woman. And there's your switch.
Lets try to keep this guys topic on track.
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This is typical marketing. VZW NEVER releases an update at the same time they are releasing a new phone with that very update. They want people to upgrade phones to get the new OS. Its one of the reasons I left Android, I didn't think they would pull the same crap with Windows Phones because Microsoft (and Lumia) released the update to all services for all phones. Kinda like IPhone does. Except that Verizon phones are specific to Verizon so they have to add their gobledy-gook and make sure the update works with the gobledy-gook they already tagged the phones with.
So..I'd say after they hit their sales target with the new M8, THEN they will release the update.
Oh and an added note: We got the new M8 as a new phone for my SO. It is NOT the phone the Icon is. If you're thinking of switching from Icon to the HTC M8 to get the new OS, don't do it. Lumia has call filtering that HTC and other WP phones does not offer, just for one. The camera quality is nothing near the Icon and I don't think the screen is as nice either.
I've been using Windows Phone since April 2011 and updates have always been problematic on all carriers. I'm in the process of switching from AT&T to Verizon for network reasons, but I'm staying with Windows Phone. Windows Phone 7's update rollout was extremely slow, if memory serves it took months to get the update to all devices. Windows Phone 8's update rollout has been a little better in comparison. The "Black" update came out fairly quickly on AT&T's phones. "Cyan" and WP 8.1's rollout is more similar to WP7's rollout with staggered releases on most networks. On AT&T, the most recent phones are getting it first with older devices going last, including the flagship Lumia 920. This is a problem because many of the platform's biggest fans bought the first WP8 devices and they are essentially left out until almost every other device has it.
The update to the Lumia Icon will come eventually. Alternatively, you can also use their Developer Preview to get 8.1.
Bottom line: Verizon is way late getting Cyan out to all their WP8 customers. And their communication to their customers is poor on this one.
But c'mon folks, a lot of you are acting like Verizon has committed high treason. They're late with an update. So what? Happens all the time, with all the carriers. Cyan is not addressing critical flaws - everybody's phone is working just fine right now with Lumia Black. So chill, and stop the hyperventilating, claims of fraud, and calls for a blue ribbon Congressional panel to investigate! You'll get it when you get it. And it will NOT be because somebody got the FCC to step in.
Personally I would like to see the FCC force the equal treatment of updates across all hardware lines. If Apple gets to push their updates as soon as they are ready then Google and Microsoft should get the same treatment. If it is found, and I personally believe this is true, that a company is with holding or delaying an update to sell new phones with that update included then I would hope the FCC would fine the tar out of the company to the tune of 25% of the gross profits for the entire company for the time period they delayed the update. Since I doubt the current FCC will do that I am not going to hold my breath. Since I have seen how the US AG takes care of us consumers in relation to the Banks, I know not to even dream the FCC will do much if anything.
Apple doesn't push updates as soon as they are ready. They WAIT for all devices to be ready before pushing them out. Get an iDevice and join ADC($99) and you'll see what happens.
The difference between Apple and other manufacturers. Apple waits to update all their devices at the same time while other manufacturers choose to update as soon as they are finished per device.
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