It's good to hear more and more phone makers are seeing the light and are dumping WinMo as their platform. Motorola is switching to Android just like Sony Ericcson and Samsung excreted WinMo away from their business. Even better, HTC, the company who built 80% of all WinMo phones, has officially announced plans to ship half of its phones next year using Android.
In addition, thanks to the fantastic phones made by RIM, Palm and Apple, more and more nails get hammered into WinMo's coffin and its inability to compete in the market. Microsoft's project Pink will then kill off WinMo's remaining partners just like they did with their PlayForSure partners. Unavoidably, when Pink reveals the WindowsPhone, it will end up in the same black hole as the Zune players. Lastly, opening MS stores in an attempt to push these 2 products will be rejected by customers and will do nothing to improve their stance or marketability.
WinMo's suffered enough, let's let it die in peace.
I think I'd wait until Windows Mobile 7 comes out to declare it dead or not. Way too early to call that right now. Plus, you don't know what Motorola's doing (if they're dumping WinMo or not), Sony Ericsson hasn't said they'll get rid of WinMo (and if I recall, they only made one), and Samsung is still coming out with WinMo phones (I believe). Also HTC is probably indicating that they'll make more phones overall, and not less WinMo phones.
I don't like WinMo as it is right now, but I think version 7 will change my mind.
You know, I constantly get sick and tired of people telling WinMo to "die" and "vanish from the face off the Earth". WiNMo 6.x may not be something extordinary, but it gets the job done. And when WinMo 7 comes out, it'll be like the Windows 7 for WinMo phones. Kind of like how 6 was like Vista for them.
"it'll be like the Windows 7 for WinMo phones. Kind of like how 6 was like Vista for them"
So basically, a cosmetic enhancement with a little bit of speed added onto it. Remember: Vista = 6.0 (actual Microsoft internal version number) Win 7 = 6.1 (actual Microsoft internal version number)
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It's good to hear more and more phone makers are seeing the light and are dumping WinMo as their platform. Motorola is switching to Android just like Sony Ericcson and Samsung excreted WinMo away from their business. Even better, HTC, the company who built 80% of all WinMo phones, has officially announced plans to ship half of its phones next year using Android.
In addition, thanks to the fantastic phones made by RIM, Palm and Apple, more and more nails get hammered into WinMo's coffin and its inability to compete in the market. Microsoft's project Pink will then kill off WinMo's remaining partners just like they did with their PlayForSure partners. Unavoidably, when Pink reveals the WindowsPhone, it will end up in the same black hole as the Zune players. Lastly, opening MS stores in an attempt to push these 2 products will be rejected by customers and will do nothing to improve their stance or marketability.
WinMo's suffered enough, let's let it die in peace.
I think I'd wait until Windows Mobile 7 comes out to declare it dead or not. Way too early to call that right now. Plus, you don't know what Motorola's doing (if they're dumping WinMo or not), Sony Ericsson hasn't said they'll get rid of WinMo (and if I recall, they only made one), and Samsung is still coming out with WinMo phones (I believe). Also HTC is probably indicating that they'll make more phones overall, and not less WinMo phones.
I don't like WinMo as it is right now, but I think version 7 will change my mind.
You know, I constantly get sick and tired of people telling WinMo to "die" and "vanish from the face off the Earth". WiNMo 6.x may not be something extordinary, but it gets the job done. And when WinMo 7 comes out, it'll be like the Windows 7 for WinMo phones. Kind of like how 6 was like Vista for them.
"it'll be like the Windows 7 for WinMo phones. Kind of like how 6 was like Vista for them"
So basically, a cosmetic enhancement with a little bit of speed added onto it. Remember:
Vista = 6.0 (actual Microsoft internal version number)
Win 7 = 6.1 (actual Microsoft internal version number)