![]() In addition, Microsoft is taking some important steps to close the app gap. You can access your RSS feeds with the excellent NextGen Reader app (although the developer is currently on personal hiatus), and Microsoft’s own News app and Flipboard have that category covered. ![]() Media consumption is a bit limited, with decent enough Netflix and Microsoft Movies and TV apps, but neither Amazon Video nor Google Play Video apps. You can game on a Windows phone as well, even if the most popular iOS titles aren’t always available. For the most part, you can get your work done on a Windows phone. Microsoft’s Wunderlist is an excellent task manager that runs on every platform known to humankind. The Mail and Calendar app is decent enough, albeit lacking in some important features (e.g., creating folders). Productivity apps are covered with Office Mobile, naturally. Of the major social media platforms, in fact, only Snapchat is entirely missing in action (by Snapchat’s choice, of course). Instagram and Pinterest are covered as well, with third-party options of varying quality. Social media is partly covered, for example, with a usable (but not terribly great) Microsoft-written Facebook app and plenty of decent Twitter apps. No matter how good Windows 10 Mobile becomes (it’s still in pretty rough shape at the moment), the platform will suffer until the app gap is closed.Įven so, there are actually only a handful of areas where it’s simply impossible to use a Windows phone. There are simply far more apps available in every category on the other two major platforms, and in many cases the equivalent apps are simply better. The so-called “ app gap” that separates Windows-based smartphones from their iOS and Android counterparts is very real.
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