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Originally Posted by Fritzly
The use of "some" seems a little bit optimistic to me, especially when Carriers will raise data fees thanks to these "all stored in the cloud" and now "All synced through the cloud only" mantras. And yes so far MS is not charging anything for the services but tomorrow?
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You, and several others, are talking as though desktop sync for media doesn't exist; as though you're expected to sync all your photos/music/videos via the cloud. That's not the case: you'll connect your WP7 phone to the Zune desktop software, and transfer music, videos, and photos back and forth. I can't think of anything media-wise that would need to go via the cloud.
PIM stuff - calender, contacts, email - is all cloud based now, yes, but compared to media synching PIM stuff is bandwidth light. I really don't understand the problem here.
And, based on discussions with Microsoft and a lot of other MVPs, the average smartphone owner rarely, if ever, takes the memory card out (and I count myself in that group). I think there's only a small % of users that would actively want to take the memory card in and out. Here in this forum, that % is much higher, so it seems like a bigger problem than it is. But, unfortunately for you guys, Microsoft has chosen to target this phone at the broader market.
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Originally Posted by Fritzly
...one of the first golden rules I learned about computers was to always keep OS and programs separated form data.
All my computers are set in this way; C:\ OS and Programs, D:\Data, E:\OS Image and Data backup. Of course I also have backup on removable storage. Keep everything together is a perfect receipt for trouble.
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I used to the same thing back with Windows XP - but that was years ago. There's zero reason to continue with the same approach now - if you have a hard drive failure, all your careful partitioning is going to be moot. Data and OS isolation was the smart thing to do when your OS would become corrupted at the drop of a hat - Windows XP was great at that - but both Vista and Windows 7 are much more robust.
Anyway, this is getting rather off topic, but I think the reality is that some people don't like change, don't want to change, and will refuse to change their ways while the rest of the world moves on. I see that in this thread, but no one is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to buy a WP7 phone.
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