Comments on: Big Whoop http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/12/big-whoop.html Chris Rue's Headquarters for Truth, Justice & Mid-Market IT Mon, 17 May 2010 17:43:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Vlad Mazek http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/12/big-whoop.html/comment-page-1#comment-12032 Vlad Mazek Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:33:07 +0000 http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/12/big-whoop.html#comment-12032 Microsoft and it's OEM henchmen don't seem to realize one very simple, fundamental truth: Windows Mobile runs on CONSUMER DEVICES. They are trying to portray it like a business tool as in Microsoft Office on the go. It is not. They try to run it like Windows where they just provide the core and everyone develops what they need on top of it. It is not. My Blackjack is running Windows Mobile 6 and it is the last Microsoft smartphone I get. Windows Mobile struggles with the very basic issues of stability, performance and appeal which may have been enough to compete with Symbian but it is not nearly enough to compete with the latest devices from Blackberry, Apple, or Nokia. -Vlad Microsoft and it’s OEM henchmen don’t seem to realize one very simple, fundamental truth:

Windows Mobile runs on CONSUMER DEVICES.

They are trying to portray it like a business tool as in Microsoft Office on the go. It is not. They try to run it like Windows where they just provide the core and everyone develops what they need on top of it. It is not.

My Blackjack is running Windows Mobile 6 and it is the last Microsoft smartphone I get. Windows Mobile struggles with the very basic issues of stability, performance and appeal which may have been enough to compete with Symbian but it is not nearly enough to compete with the latest devices from Blackberry, Apple, or Nokia.

-Vlad

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