Comments on: Nokia and others to launch “iPhone-like” devices next year?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:59:29 +0000

I’m not an Apple fan but I gotta admit, I used an old version of Windows Mobile and it was pretty crappy. I personally liked all the complicated stuff, since it allowed me to get rid of all the customisation my operator had preinstalled onto it and I got a regular PDA with a phone built in. They really should have tucked this stuff away though so that people who didn’t know how to use it cold just ignore it.

Then again, Apple only had to build their UI for a single phone and they pumped pretty much the entire budget into it. Apart from the lovely looks and interface the iPhone’s a two/three year-old device.

By: sickofwm

sickofwm — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:12:13 +0000

your other statement that its power is in its “customizable expandability” is total nonsense – the usefulness and hence, power, of any system is its ability to accomplish its intended task most efficiently, effectively (cost and time wise), and elegantly – WM does none of these well – it’s huge, slow, and ill adapted for handsets – if Ballmer and Gates used it for any time at all, they’d fire the entire team – but since MSFT doesn’t know good software when they see it, those 2 would be unable to tell how badly it sucks – “what do you mean, it takes 4 key presses to delete something – that’s better than 6″

just read Ballmer’s response to the mom who complained to him about Vista for her daughter’s PC and you’ll see exactly what I mean (this has been verified as an accurate exchange)

“While on stage at a Gartner’s ITxpo conference today, Ballmer got an ear-full from the mother of a 13-year-old girl who said after installing Vista on her daughter’s computer she decided only two days later to switch back to XP because Vista was so difficult. Ballmer defended Vista saying: ‘Your daughter saw a lot of value’; to which the mother replied: ‘She’s 13.’ Ballmer said that Vista is bigger than XP, and ‘for some people that’s an issue, and it’s not going to get smaller in any significant way in SP1. But machines are constantly getting bigger, and [it's] probably important to remember that as well.’ Says the mother: ‘Good, I’ll let you come in and install it for me.’”

By: sickofwm

sickofwm — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:05:20 +0000

you say it’s a “damn good platform” – having used 3 different devices that were WM-based, I can categorically state that it is anything but “damn good” – it is bloated, frequently requires reboots (far more than other handheld OS’es) requires, requires far more key presses to accomplish almost any function – it has a registry for heaven’s sake, something of dubious value in a PC much less a handheld – it uses memory poorly – I can go on but I challenge you to prove it is “damn good” in the fac eof tall the contrary evidence – it’s on version 6 to boot and it still sucks – explain that!

By: Will Park

Will Park — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:46:00 +0000

Windows Mobile is far from perfect, but its a damn good platform. The power is in the customizable expandability. All platforms have their downsides, but they all have their different merits. To blindly discount a platform out of loyaly to a singular brand is ignorant

By: dusanb

dusanb — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:09:29 +0000

Well my friend more people use Windows Mobile based devices than iPhone. I guess it works for them. However, I do agree Windows Mobile is everything but a solid system, though it’s quite expandable.

By: sickofwm

sickofwm — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:48:07 +0000

if the new devices are Windows mobile-based, how on earth can they compare to the iPhone – WM is apiece of crap – have you tried it? apparently not -