I understand where you're coming from, but since Microsoft doesn't actually make their own phones I think it is important for their business to be as flexible as possible so the phone manufacturers can be innovate (e.g., HTC's TouchFlo3D, Samsung's TouchWiz, etc.). Microsoft's focus should be on integration of the mobile OS and applications with the desktop OS and applications. Their biggest problem right now is they paid too little attention to the condition of the mobile OS that the phone manufacturers had to get rid of the ugly. Too much of what we see now should be native to the OS in some way, shape, or form. Now that the phone manufacturer's are distinguishing their offerings by creating these unique interfaces, Microsoft is trying to figure out how to make sure people don't forget that it is actually their OS on the phone.
Saying they're going to restrict the number of phones that have licensed copies of the mobile OS is probably just a ploy to make it look like future versions of the OS are going to be somehow be really special -- trying to capture some of the buzz that has been Apple's, Google's, and not Palm's. What Microsoft is not going to do is cut off a profitable revenue stream.
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I understand where you're coming from, but since Microsoft doesn't actually make their own phones I think it is important for their business to be as flexible as possible so the phone manufacturers can be innovate (e.g., HTC's TouchFlo3D, Samsung's TouchWiz, etc.). Microsoft's focus should be on integration of the mobile OS and applications with the desktop OS and applications. Their biggest problem right now is they paid too little attention to the condition of the mobile OS that the phone manufacturers had to get rid of the ugly. Too much of what we see now should be native to the OS in some way, shape, or form. Now that the phone manufacturer's are distinguishing their offerings by creating these unique interfaces, Microsoft is trying to figure out how to make sure people don't forget that it is actually their OS on the phone.
Saying they're going to restrict the number of phones that have licensed copies of the mobile OS is probably just a ploy to make it look like future versions of the OS are going to be somehow be really special -- trying to capture some of the buzz that has been Apple's, Google's, and not Palm's. What Microsoft is not going to do is cut off a profitable revenue stream.