Comments on: Windows Mobile 6.5 shows clever burst of originality. Haha no.

By: Why Microsoft Will Slaughter Its Windows Mobile, PC Partners — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:25:12 +0000

[...] Windows Mobile 6.5 shows clever burst of originality. Haha no. Microsoft’s Zune, Vista, and Windows Mobile 7 Strategy vs the iPhone Did Microsoft kill Android at Mobile World Congress 2009? Microsoft’s Basic Vaporware Strategy. That Windows Mobile roadmap sounds more like a scenic route for Microsoft, which has rapidly lost mobile platform market share (just a few years ago, it could claim a 24% share of smartphones, now it’s down to around 9%) and has been embarrassed by the rapid rise of the last three generations of iPhone. [...]

By: The big 3.0: How iPhone will shift peripheral devices — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:16:19 +0000

[...] Windows Mobile 6.5 shows clever burst of originality. Haha no. Did Microsoft kill Android at Mobile World Congress 2009? When Diversity is Not a Strength. Google’s Android seeks to be a clone of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, and will suffer the same problems as it attempts to pave over all the component diversity that has complicated developers’ efforts to build mobile software that works well on more than a few models. [...]

By: The Case of the Top Secret, Missing Windows Mobile Phone — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:33:31 +0000

[...] Windows Mobile 6.5 shows clever burst of originality. Haha no Newton Lessons for Apple’s New Platform The Egregious Incompetence of Palm The Spectacular Failure of WinCE and Windows Mobile Pay no attention to the OS behind the curtain Without having anything really new to expose, apart from an apparent “global opt out” program on its remote wipe feature, is the missing Windows Mobile 6.5 phone only a threat in that it might expose how little progress Microsoft has made in its efforts to catch up to the iPhone? [...]

By: Did Microsoft kill Android at Mobile World Congress 2009? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:25:36 +0000

[...] Windows Mobile 6.5 shows clever burst of originality. Haha no. [...]

By: iPhone dominates Mobile World Congress 2009 without Apple — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:31:23 +0000

[...] as the introduction of new devices planned to run it, including new models from LG, also required comparisons with the features already present in the iPhone [...]

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:09:50 +0000

I have around 260 apps as well. Looking forward to a better way of managing them.

By: darwiniandude

darwiniandude — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:23:45 +0000

I have ~ 260 in iTunes, and constantly have to choose which to remove from the iPhone to make space for a new purchase. Here’s hoping the 148 app limit is fixed quicksmart!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:46:45 +0000

That’s a good point too Ken. Any one of my friends has more than an entire page of DL’ed apps. Most of us have at least two pages of DL’ed apps, and 16 apps fit on a page. I mostly have free ones.

By: KenC

KenC — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:41:49 +0000

I strongly disagree with TravelingScott and Daniel that 500M+ downloads includes updates. Doing back-of-the-envelope calculations show that it wouldn’t make sense if it included updates. Just think anecdotally of your own experience. I have about 100 apps, and they have been updated many times. Probably 3 to 5 updates each, with some being updated over a dozen times. If you divide 500M by 3 to 5 you get 100M to 166M individual app downloads. Divide that by about 21M iPhones and iPod touches, that’s my estimate, and you get only 5 to 8 apps each. Seems way low to me. Then again, I’ve got about 100!

By: darwiniandude

darwiniandude — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:18:45 +0000

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Great article, as always.

As for the start button, they’re obsessed with it because it’s the one (debatably) easy to use feature that was well received for the most part, that Microsoft invented themselves. One giant button, with everything from launching apps, changing settings, turning off your computer.
Start, Shutdown; so intuitive!