The spirit of the competition is that you take your phone in its normal state ... and do some relatively common activities to see how your phone compares to doing it on a WP7 phone.
It very much is an individual competition. Regardless, the fact he had to configure his phone in a way he would not normally use really defeats the purpose of the message here. Though yes, it obviously shows some of the flaws in setting up these kind of events.
So, what if you go up to do the challenge, and the task they give you
ISN'T something you would personally normally do? You get
"smoked" and walk away a loser. My point is, even if you set the normal Nexus lockscreen, and have a couple weather widgets set, like they do with their live tiles, then the competition boils down to who can swipe the unlock on their phone faster. Hardly a shining example of OS superiority, regardless of who wins.
If the task was to
SET two weather widgets/tiles, then we're getting somewhere. Like some of the other tests. Take a picture, and tweet it out. Find a location and get directions there. Those are everyday tasks, that you could compete with someone with. Challenging someone to check the weather in two locations, when they already had the live tiles setup ahead of time, is pretty shady. The fact that they got beat with
THIS challenge is kind of funny really.
I wonder if I can challenge with my Windows Mobile 6.5 phone.
Windows Phone smoked Windows Phone.
Phoneception.
That would be like dividing by zero, and would probably cause an earth-swallowing black hole. Let's not try that.
Yeah no doubt, but I wonder if he argumented at all in the store or if he went straight to his blog to let the world know he was right.
Oh, for sure. The whole PR fallout from this is pretty lame. I'm glad they quickly fixed things, and put it behind them.
