This post was published 1 year 9 months 20 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Something that I feel strongly that Apple did right with the iPhone is that they demanded the carrier adhere to their rules. I mean, Apple is getting paid for services that AT&T usually pockets 100% of. That is insane. I think that MIcrosoft has a tad to learn from this.
So, what I think is that Microsoft needs to release their Windows Mobile OS with a strict set of guidelines on what can be done by the OEMs and Carriers to the core OS. What happens when carriers get in there and start adding and removing stuff? Sometimes good things, sometimes disaster that ultimately falls back on Microsoft and not the carrier even though it was done by the carrier. I am not saying Windows Mobile is perfect by any means, I just think that bad hardware and/or bad updates are making it look worse.
I personally think that the carriers have gotten too powerful and it will never fly if Microsoft was to bow up to the them, but it’s wishful thinking. The iPhone works great because it’s basicly unaltered. There is not much you can currently do to the iPhone to alter the operation that Apple intended. The exact opposite can be said about Windows Mobile. This is both good and bad for consumers. Good in that we can customize the hell out of our devices and bad that the carriers can strip out needed apps to line their pockets.
What do you think?

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