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Windows Mobile 6.5: "There's No Excuse for This"

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Oct 2009 20:21 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf

Before the iPhone, we were content with stylus-based interfaces that worked well - mostly - for what you needed to do. Then came the iPhone. From a pure feature perspective, it was (and is) lacking, but it more than makes up for it by being a polished product that's easy to use. The iPhone shook the entire industry up, and while newcomers have done relatively well (webOS, Android) Windows Mobile is now so far left behind you can barely see it any more. Windows Mobile 6.5 is supposed to be the first step towards modernising Windows Mobile - but it fails miserably.

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RE[2]: Miserable trade-off

by AdamW on Tue 6th Oct 2009 23:08 UTC in reply to "RE: Miserable trade-off"

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2005-07-06

"Microsoft and Apple had two very different paths, and I think we all know which won in the marketplace. "

Indeed we do - Nokia.

(But the difference between Microsoft and Apple is much less than, I suspect, you would be thinking, and WM beat out iPhone as recently as Q4 2008).

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/08/21/canalys-iphone-outsold-all...

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RE[3]: Miserable trade-off

by tony on Tue 6th Oct 2009 23:34 in reply to "RE[2]: Miserable trade-off"

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2005-07-06

World-wide, Nokia reigns supreme, especially in Europe. But in the US, I can't remember the last time I saw someone with a Nokia-based smartphone. The lead that the iPhone has over MS (world-wide and US) seems to be increasing. Microsoft is clearly on the defensive, with vendors scrambling to paste interfaces onto Windows Mobile to make it look more iPhone-like, and scramble to get a marketplace like Apple's app store.

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RE[4]: Miserable trade-off

by melgross on Wed 7th Oct 2009 05:50 in reply to "RE[3]: Miserable trade-off"

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2005-08-12

It's true that Nokia smartphones still have the largest marketshare worldwide.

But, it's down to 38% last count. It WAS, at one time, 60%.

Anyone wanna bet that same time next year, Nokia's marketshare will be even lower, and both Rim's and Apple's will be a good bit higher?

Meanwhile Win Mobile is down to 9%, WebOs doesn't register, and the Pre is selling very poorly.

Android looks to be the possible up and comer here.

I think that three years from now, Apple, Google, Nokia and RIM will have most of the marketshare, and Win Mobile and WebOs will be small players, if Palm is still around. Though it will possibly get bought.

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