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Have Microsoft missed the mark with Windows Mobile 6.5?
When it comes to Windows Mobile it is a love hate relationship. I love it because it offers so much and promises wonderful things but then I hate it because what it delivers is ALWAYS not what they offer or anywhere near what they promised. I have used the very first version of the smartphone the SPV, then it’s black and sexier cousin the C500, then the PDA type M600 and finally my current phone the HTC Touch. Now, you maybe wondering why do I keep buying them, but in fairness all of them (except the HTC Touch) came with the company I worked for. But I digress.
Engadget.com has an interesting article listing ten reasons why WM 6.5 is not what it’s cracked up to be. CLICK HERE to read the post.
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about 2 years ago
Of all the smart-phone makers caught with their pants down since the iPhone was first demo’d in Jan07, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile (v5 at the time) I think will be the one to catch up the slowest. Currently at v6.1, 6.5 won’t be available on real devices ‘on the ground’ probably until Q4-09, and as has been commentated by the usual suspects, probably won’t do anywhere near enough to counter The iPhone Problem. Windows Mobile 7 is slated for 2010. Yeahwhatever.
Marc Andresson’s recent interview where he stated ‘Apple beamed in the iPhone from 5 years into the future…’ is quite true, and Microsoft I think will be the hardest hit as time goes on. How did Apple do it? By sacrificing several major features (which they’re only now catching up on with the imminent v3) in preference to creating the revolutionary iPhone UI that created the WOW Factor which drove the incredible sales (for a new-comer to the phone market), followed by the utterly remarkable 25000apps+800000app-downloads in only 9 months of the AppStore/iPhoneDevKit.
about 2 years ago
Microsoft’s solution has always been to increase processing power to make up for inefficient code. That is a reasonable solution but with one massive drawback, power! The Iphone’s battery life isn’t it’s main party trick, but it’s code is efficient and, on the most part, reliable. But the secret to Apple is it’s logical User Inteface. It JUST WORKS. Apple has done this with all it’s products; created great links from the user to the technology.
Microsoft is the underdog here because they have no clear direction. I used to work for Microsoft and believe me when I say there were just too many egos, too much red tape, too much money but very few original ideas.