Windows Mobile's slippery slope

Windows Mobile's slippery slope

iPhone and Android lead a challenge that could kill off Windows Mobile

i've got a feeling that '8' won't be bad, 8 will be the comeback with all that is being done with the xbox and zune, add nvidia's 570x (xbox live and multiplayer games on phone?) increase in gpu capability and the z-cam as the next big-thing and multi-touch as right now and you've got a winner.

I guess that Windows 8 will also be far more integrated, and people won't mind settling for the W8 phone.

my2yen

phenom said:

i've got a feeling that '8' won't be bad, 8 will be the comeback with all that is being done with the xbox and zune, add nvidia's 570x (xbox live and multiplayer games on phone?) increase in gpu capability and the z-cam as the next big-thing and multi-touch as right now and you've got a winner.

I guess that Windows 8 will also be far more integrated, and people won't mind settling for the W8 phone.

my2yen

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I hope you are right. My first Windows phone was the K-Jam and I absolutely liked that phone. Then got the Omnia 900, but did not like the phone. Gave it to my daughter after a month and went back to my K-Jam.
To be honest, I haven't used any of the systems mentioned in the OP, but I like the compatibility with pc's and Microsoft products in particular.

I have just picked up a win mobile phone after having an android for the past year and the frustrations of win mobile / great things about android become apparent... potential there but it's been neglected too long.

Microsoft really had been it's own worst enemy in the mobile market. From bad management decisions to blatant disregard for the impact of mobile technology to terrible repeated delays to underwhelming half-releases.

What Apple really showed everyone with the iPhone was that mobile tech was dragging it's heels, WinMo/Java/Symbian all at fault. High-end phones were geek gadgets for the tech-savvy trying to win the hardware-spec battle, and Apple made them available and usable for Joe Average. Not that Apple is without its faults too.

The funny thing is that one of WinMo's biggest problems is also one of its biggest possible future strengths. People are simply not so brand/OS locked-in on their phones as they are on the desktop. So now while WinMo sucks, people will drop it, but if/when M$ releases a kick-ass version of WinMo, users will switch.

Though their "window" of opportunity is quickly running out...

Yea Microsoft has been sleeping at the wheel. By the looks of it, Win Mobile 7 might not actually be a huge difference from 6.5. Looks like they are following the same tactic is with Win Xp -> Vista -> 7 , where if you really get down to it, nothing really changed in Windows. It is a little more shiny and some security features [which the end user usually do not appreciate anyway] , but you still got the start menu, control panel, run the same software in the same way. You can't pull that "rebuilt the core for better performance" crap in the mobile market while still shoving the same "user experience". You might get away with that in Windows because it is pretty much a solid and enjoyable experience, not so in the mobile market.

Win Mobile was good in the stylus days, but if you look at Win Mobile 5 and at 6.5, you really have to wonder what have Microsoft been doing all this time? There's -zero- innovation and they just churned out minor version for the sake of churning something out. So i'm not convinced Win 7 was meant to be anything else but another "minor" version with some shinyness to it.

I'd say Microsoft is caught with their pants down, if they release WinMo 7 as a minor upgrade they're dead (same clunky experience meant for stylus phones of yesteryear). Microsoft was also so slow with versions, that users not going to wait for a WinMo 8 anymore, they are going to move on until it actually release and Microsoft will lose their entire market share. They will have to re-enter the market from scratch.

Plus what makes the Iphone OS so big is all the development going on, people creating apps at the speed of light. Microsoft is losing that as well, by the time they release v8 , there will be no one left coding on their platform...