Microsoft has released three papers designed to help mobile application developers from other platforms migrate their applications to Windows Mobile. The first and second papers involve migrating developers and applications from Symbian OS and the third paper is a guide for developers moving from Palm OS.
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You mean like the Sharp Linux devices that have gone absolutely nowhere in the market?
Funny, I always thought that applied to Windows SPVs seeing as I've never seen anyone buying one at all. How many people do you see using those things or buying them in mobile shops? None, that's how many. Additionally, it's quite difficult to see what phones actually use Linux or the more widespread Symbian these days unless you're told.
In terms of a market, practically all of the new mobile companies springing up in China these days are using Linux and a combination of something like Qtopia and it's a fast growing market. They ain't using Windows. In the western world the mobile market's growth has levelled out quite a bit, but I'd expect to see more Linux-based phones gradually coming through in the future. Not that you'd know as an end consumer really, as Linux/Symbian/Windows is a decision a manufacturer makes based on cost, availability and customisation, none of which Windows Mobile has in its favour. It might have a cost advantage in some cases, but that's simply because Microsoft pays millions to companies like Orange to produce SPVs until they say "Oh, alright then".
In terms of branding and acceptance by your average brand-conscious consumer Windows is simply not something they expect to, or want to, see on their new mobile. Windows is that thing they have at home that causes them no end of problems. If I were Microsoft I'd just hide the name.
It's funny how deluded Microsoft and a lot of their supporters are about how desktop dominance translates to automatic acceptance in the mobile world. People do not choose to use Windows on the desktop - computers, and certainly Windows, are simply something people put up with.
Those slow, bloated and huge pieces of crap that consumers don't seem to want?
Yer, consumers are flocking to Windows Mobile because they trust the Microsoft name and the Windows brand holds real sway with them because they're just so keen to show it off. Oh wait......
Your argument is nothing but a recycled piece of FUD, borrowed from some asinine Palm-zealot from the last century.
Right.....
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"Windows Mobile is a bloated power hog that ensures short battery life and troubles while Linux is fast and secure and is getting increasingly well suited for mobile devices"
Bloated power hog? You mean like the Sharp Linux devices that have gone absolutely nowhere in the market? You know the ones? Those slow, bloated and huge pieces of crap that consumers don't seem to want?
Your argument is nothing but a recycled piece of FUD, borrowed from some asinine Palm-zealot from the last century.