Comments on: Is WM the Next Palm? http://www.mobilitysite.com/2008/07/is-wm-the-next-palm/ Mobile News, Reviews, and Views. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:14:34 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: c1oudrs http://www.mobilitysite.com/2008/07/is-wm-the-next-palm/comment-page-1/#comment-6831 c1oudrs Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:56:55 +0000 http://mobilitysite.com/2008/07/is-wm-the-next-palm/#comment-6831 Nahh. I'm not a coder so take what I saywith a grain of salt. But I think windows mobile is the way it is because of short-sightedness on the part of microsoft. Realize their money for a long time was in their computer end especially their pc software end. windows mobile was a niche market. Then psychologically decisions and mindsets build on one another. "Not real pcs" kind of thingg. Before you know it the iphones, and the androids show up because of the vacuum in demand. So in a way its thee same as palm. However, in a way its different. I dont see it as a problem of 3rd party programmers struggling to support windows mobile as much as incompetence on the part of microsoft management. Microsoft management in my opinion allowed windowsmobile to remain crippled (as opposed to 'full fledged' XP) because it was in their short term interest to do so. So now microsoft is bei ng outpaced by technology and competition and it remains to be seen how well they can overcome their own mindset. They have the resources that palm didnt have. But microsoft has almost beaten itself at the marketplace. If it continues to beat itself microsoft will lose. Nahh. I’m not a coder so take what I saywith a grain of salt. But I think windows mobile is the way it is because of short-sightedness on the part of microsoft. Realize their money for a long time was in their computer end especially their pc software end. windows mobile was a niche market. Then psychologically decisions and mindsets build on one another. “Not real pcs” kind of thingg. Before you know it the iphones, and the androids show up because of the vacuum in demand. So in a way its thee same as palm. However, in a way its different. I dont see it as a problem of 3rd party programmers struggling to support windows mobile as much as incompetence on the part of microsoft management. Microsoft management in my opinion allowed windowsmobile to remain crippled (as opposed to ‘full fledged’ XP) because it was in their short term interest to do so. So now microsoft is bei ng outpaced by technology and competition and it remains to be seen how well they can overcome their own mindset. They have the resources that palm didnt have. But microsoft has almost beaten itself at the marketplace. If it continues to beat itself microsoft will lose.

]]> By: Rishad http://www.mobilitysite.com/2008/07/is-wm-the-next-palm/comment-page-1/#comment-6828 Rishad Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:59:30 +0000 http://mobilitysite.com/2008/07/is-wm-the-next-palm/#comment-6828 Microsoft really dropped the ball with WM. They had such a good user base and so much potential. But year after year they've been releasing the same old OS only with some minor and visual changes. Seems to me like they never did allocate proper budget/development to make WM better. I still think WM can make it through. But they have to recognize the potential of mobile devices and have to come up with something good.. something significantly better than the current WM platform. Microsoft really dropped the ball with WM. They had such a good user base and so much potential. But year after year they’ve been releasing the same old OS only with some minor and visual changes. Seems to me like they never did allocate proper budget/development to make WM better.

I still think WM can make it through. But they have to recognize the potential of mobile devices and have to come up with something good.. something significantly better than the current WM platform.

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