Acer is the latest smartphone handset maker to shift its resources from Windows Mobile to Android. And with competing OSes grabbing marketshare and attention daily, an observer couldn't be faulted for assuming that Microsoft's mobile OS initiative is in terminal decline. But it's quite possible that the mobile computing market is growing so fast that there will be room for all these players, and more.
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Palm is not exactly "returning to its own OS". This makes it sound like Palm dabbled in WinMo and then decided to go back to the classic Palm OS. Instead, the classic Palm OS was dying on the vine, so they started selling WinMo devices. Finally, the much awaited (like 6+ years!) WebOS came out. Palm rightly saw the WebOS as its future, and is dropping the clunky WinMo for the WebOS Palm Pre line. Maybe it's semantics, but I felt clarification was in order.
PalmOS --> WinMO --> PalmOS -- a regression
PalmOS --> WinMO --> WebOS -- a progression
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when it was just palm vs microsoft, microsoft had a chance at monopoly by targeting PalmOS's weaknesses. Even still it's surprising how Palm was able to hold out for so long.
It's a lot harder now with iphone, RIM, etc.
Netscape also used to dominate the browser space and Microsoft was able to focus on them and wipe them out. The lesson is to not give Microsoft a single target for them to focus on.
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Yes, it's English, so if I can write it as one word, and you can read it as one word, then it's one word. You can write it as one word, two words, or a hyphenated word, and over time, a sort of consensus will emerge, and consensus of usage will determine correctness. It's not French, where your usage is judged by a committee. :-)
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2006-04-22
Amazing how poorly their mobile development has been, considering they should have had a leg up in the competition. PDA's and Windows Mobile, along with the accompanying software have been around for years. There are literally thousands of programs for the mobile platform, what is missing is an OS that fits in 2009/10 and not 2001. I got a free Ipaq back in 2003 which I hardly ever used, but now can reflect on the fact there is no difference between that and the new HTC smartphone I have. The only thing Windows mobile has going for it is a wealth of available software, but as for the OS itself it needs to go the way of the dodo.
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Apparently Microsoft directed its resources to .Net development. C# and .Net are widely successful in the desktop and ASP area but alas have limited use in mobile applications.
It usually boils down to personalities. My guess is that there just wasn't a sufficiently respected heavy weight in Microsoft management that could push for mobile development.
