2 Reasons Why Microsoft Phones are Better than Apple Phones

These are 2 reasons Microsoft doesn’t even advertise:

To give it a try, I changed to a Windows Phone several months ago. I did not like it. Sure, it was nice and worked pretty well for web browsing, email, and making phone calls. But I missed some apps that I used to use on the iPhone.

Over the months of using the Windows Phone, I still saw no compelling reason to stay with the Windows Phone. That was until I tried an iPhone again – this time an iPhone 5S.

I was more surprised than anyone that I liked the Windows Phone better. There is no comparison in voice quality, and here are 2 other huge differences.

1.      Copy and Paste are two of my very favorite functions in the world. I’m always moving paragraphs, using text from one app in another, etc. I especially use copy and paste when sending an email message. I’ll pull information from web sites, other email messages, etc. and paste them into the message.

With Apple, I’m always having to fight with the phone to get it to move the cursor to the place I want the cursor to be. Have you ever tried to use an iPhone to point to and select text in order to copy and paste?

Comparatively, Windows Phone makes selecting text a breeze. Not perfect, but the selection process is so much better.  That single feature is enough to get me to live in the Windows Phone world from now on until Apple can do a better job – or at least comes close.  I acknowledge that I have comparatively big fat fingers – my wife is much more adept at using the tiny touch screen – but she has no desire to ever select text much less copy and paste it.

2.      Less bullying on auto-correct.

I find that typing on tiny on-screen keyboards is more frustrating than opening one of those “open this end” bags in the produce department. Having help from some form of auto-correct is appreciated.

Sure, it is nice when auto-correct fixes the order of the letters “I” and “e,” it is not so nice when Apple changes the name of one of your best customers to something less than flattering. Whatever you do, do NOT hit the send key before you re-read the message that Apple’s worked on!

I don’t like it when the iPhone pushes its own recommendations upon you. You deserve better than that. It is as if Apple thinks they know better than you what you want to type.

I hadn’t realized how wonderful Windows Phone is at predicting what a user wants to type. Instead of forcing its guesses upon you, the Windows Phone gives you choices from which to choose.  Shockingly, Windows Phone remembers the words you’ve typed in the past, and in what order, so it actually helps you type those customer names that aren’t “that easy to spell.” It even helps enter entire sentences – one word at a time.

With Apple, when it is supposedly “correcting” your text, you have to click the little x to tell Apple to leave your word alone the way you typed it.  That’s a huge interruption especially when you are typing words that aren’t in the apple “dictionary.”

Not only do you have to type the words, you must keep telling Apple not to change the words to some inane nonsense that just confuses people who will read the message. But those “mis-replacements” make for funny articles in magazines!

With Windows Phone, you get to click to choose from a list of words that Windows anticipates you want to use next. The phone takes the rest of sentences in context and uses that to predict the words. It even pays attention to words and sentences that have been used before, and it uses those in the suggestions. “See you next week” can take 5 clicks instead of 17.  Shazam!

Apple’s and Window’s way of autocorrect may seem similar, but the first is like a bully and the second is like a friend.

Those two reasons are enough. That’s what Microsoft should advertise.

If nothing else, Microsoft’s features may force Apple to make improvements in selecting text and in a kinder auto-replace feature. When that happens, I might leap back to an iPhone again. After all, I still use my iPad now – but not as much.

Please post your comments & Keep your Network Safe,

Mike Foster

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