http://thewindowsphone.com/2008/12/windows-mobile-pull-socks/ The Windows Phone Community for news, reviews, mobile thoughts and opinions. Sat, 08 May 2010 11:32:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thewindowsphone.com/2008/12/windows-mobile-pull-socks/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Ray Luebbert Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:11:10 +0000 http://winmocool.davewoodbridge.com/?p=1676#comment-210 While I agree that WinMo has been dragging its feet, it has been due to the fact that an outside influence needed to catalyze the marketplace into recognizing many of these unfulfilled needs. However, this catalyst emerged over a year and a half ago in the form of the iPhone announcement. MS is not driving the technology forward, quite the reverse, consumer demand is trickling up to manufacturers who in turn request updates. MS has been a great dampener to progress. However, because the other options have been so much worse, it has been able to stay ahead, until now. With Android in the market place, open-source hounds can be appeased at the same time as technology sophomores are given easy access to a soon-to-be sleek app store. The technology inept can certainly go the Apple route, where all the choices are made for the consumer already. The app store: I don’t really favor it for myself, but I am heartily in support of what it represents. It means easier access to apps for novice users. That means better apps available for everyone. Cloud-computing: That’s why I use SkyFire. Other apps SHOULD be doing this, but few are. The OS could be too. Mostly this is not happening because MS hasn’t encouraged it. The touchscreen: I have an extreme loathing of everything Apple. However, the iPhone has a couple of key characteristics that I hope to see in the marketplace as a whole. Touch is good, multi touch is better; the gestures like pinch and spread make sense intuitively. As a result, the browser and photo viewer have a tremendous advantage when compared to these functions on other devices. MS doesn’t really have any functions that are designed for finger access. Everything is designed around the stylus, though a fingernail will do most of the time. The bottom line is that I have no love lost for MS, and would jump ship to a better option in a heartbeat. Right now there isn’t one, but soon? Perhaps. While I agree that WinMo has been dragging its feet, it has been due to the fact that an outside influence needed to catalyze the marketplace into recognizing many of these unfulfilled needs. However, this catalyst emerged over a year and a half ago in the form of the iPhone announcement. MS is not driving the technology forward, quite the reverse, consumer demand is trickling up to manufacturers who in turn request updates. MS has been a great dampener to progress. However, because the other options have been so much worse, it has been able to stay ahead, until now. With Android in the market place, open-source hounds can be appeased at the same time as technology sophomores are given easy access to a soon-to-be sleek app store. The technology inept can certainly go the Apple route, where all the choices are made for the consumer already.
The app store: I don’t really favor it for myself, but I am heartily in support of what it represents. It means easier access to apps for novice users. That means better apps available for everyone.
Cloud-computing: That’s why I use SkyFire. Other apps SHOULD be doing this, but few are. The OS could be too. Mostly this is not happening because MS hasn’t encouraged it.
The touchscreen: I have an extreme loathing of everything Apple. However, the iPhone has a couple of key characteristics that I hope to see in the marketplace as a whole. Touch is good, multi touch is better; the gestures like pinch and spread make sense intuitively. As a result, the browser and photo viewer have a tremendous advantage when compared to these functions on other devices. MS doesn’t really have any functions that are designed for finger access. Everything is designed around the stylus, though a fingernail will do most of the time.
The bottom line is that I have no love lost for MS, and would jump ship to a better option in a heartbeat. Right now there isn’t one, but soon? Perhaps.

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