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Originally posted by Bartdog:

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Originally posted by dmm5157:
BTW Bart, There was a little controversy going around about that "Smoked by a Windows Phone" promotion. Guess some doing the promotion started changing the rules in the middle or even after the competition was over.

Looks like Microsoft made good on it now though.

http://skattertech.com/2012/03/i-won-the-windows-phone-challenge-but-lost-just-because/

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Did you read it? The difference was that the Android had the lock disabled and the wp didn't.

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Not sure I follow. I read the story I linked to. I'm not sure what the lock is in reference to, unless you mean the thousands of comments below (I don't have time for that, most of it is bickering).

excitedly thought I won out of pure luck. However, I was quickly told that I lost. I asked for a reason and was told Windows Phone won because “it displays the weather right there.” That was rather unclear. I showed her my device which also was showing off the same information with two side-by-side weather widgets on the center home screen. After pressing for a better reason, I was told that Windows Phone won “just because.”

After trying to push for a real answer since I clearly won the contest by their rules, another Microsoft Store employee (possibly a manager) came by after noticing me asking more questions. Thinking on his feet, he quickly gave a ridiculous out-of-thin-air reason that I need to display the weather of different cities in different states and that “my phone could not do that”.

I calmly and politely tried pointing out that I was absolutely never told about having to show off two different states, but at this point I realized there was no point in even attempting to argue since the Microsoft Store employees clearly had no intention of even potentially discussing the possibility of considering me the winner.

Edit: I see the top responses right now are suggesting maybe it's because the lock screen was disable. Disabling the lock screen is a native feature of Android (it's always been a feature since I've had one on my original HTC Hero), so I don't see how you can disallow that. If that was the gripe (I'm not sure it is), then you could disallow any advantage Android has over WP7 and of course win every contest. But isn't the point to compare advantages of the OS? In that case, being able to disable the lock screen gives an edge to Android in regards to speed. That's how I see it at least.

The whole reason I posted the story was just because I found it humorous. MS Made good on snafu, but I think most people can see through the whole marketing plan.

This post was edited on 3/30 11:35 AM by dmm5157