I hope this would be my last fustrating outrage towards Windows Mobile. After that, the product probably won’t improve and I would probably just give up ranting about it.
Windows. Mobile.
7.
Delayed. Til the second half of 2009. I really don’t get it. How are they supposed to try and increase their market share with the Android platform, Blackberries and iPhones ever increasing their own percentage of users? The last Windows Mobile update was 6.1, and what did that bring? Finger-friendly interface? No. Numbers you can actually put your whole finger on in the dialpad or calculator? No. A today screen that has bars big enough for your finger to tap on? No. Uncluttered menus? No. Being able to close a program instead of minimizing without going to start, settings, system, task manager? No.
Woah, that’s a lot of stuff done there. I can’t believe I didn’t get it the first day it was out! Oh… right… HTC didn’t release an update for my phone until a week before today. Even though it didn’t cost them a thing to get 6.1 into their hot little hands.
The reliance on third-party software to do something the OS should be able to do is massive. WinMo doesn’t even come with a registry editor.
And yet the third-party software has their own massive range and no quality control. There’s the good (SPB software) and the bad (too many to list). Without a standard system of distributing applications from one place, where ratings can be compared from program to program, the platform is set up for failure.
And now the next update won’t come until 1 year after Android gets a foothold or handhold into the market. How good can it get?
If Microsoft doesn’t do something drastic, soon, my next phone’s definitely not going to be a Windows Mobile, no matter how many Microsoft Word documents it can read.
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