Oh come on, nobody is fooled, it's just more lipstick on the pig. The user experience for the general consumer (not us tech geeks who want to spend hours playing with settings) is just miles ahead on the iphone and more minor changes to the front end isn't going to fix the problems that the GUI has. Let me give you a really really minor example, you have to use register hacks to change the softkeys on the today screen, that's just plain stupid.
The only benefit that WM has at the moment is for many business users and certain apps and backoffice integration and that advantage
WM7 is going to have to be something pretty special if MS want to stay in this game.
(Before I get accused of being an iphone fanboy - I use a i780 and was used a number of s60 devices before that and POS before that).
#1, its REGISTRY, not register, and you don't have to do that on WinMo devices anymore, there are quite a few freeware programs for doing that nowadays.
#2, WinMo has MANY benefits for the power user and the regular Joe alike. Open installation of applications? You bet. iPhone, S60 devices? Nope. Freeware? Hell no on the iPhone, anything worth a damn costs money, and pretty good on S60 devices. Customization? WinMo KILLS the other platforms in terms of customization. Straight out of the box you can change colors, fonts, where things are, how they work, how they launch etc etc etc.
Your arguements hold no water my uninformed friend.
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Oh come on, nobody is fooled, it's just more lipstick on the pig. The user experience for the general consumer (not us tech geeks who want to spend hours playing with settings) is just miles ahead on the iphone and more minor changes to the front end isn't going to fix the problems that the GUI has. Let me give you a really really minor example, you have to use register hacks to change the softkeys on the today screen, that's just plain stupid.
The only benefit that WM has at the moment is for many business users and certain apps and backoffice integration and that advantage
WM7 is going to have to be something pretty special if MS want to stay in this game.
(Before I get accused of being an iphone fanboy - I use a i780 and was used a number of s60 devices before that and POS before that).
#1, its REGISTRY, not register, and you don't have to do that on WinMo devices anymore, there are quite a few freeware programs for doing that nowadays.
#2, WinMo has MANY benefits for the power user and the regular Joe alike. Open installation of applications? You bet. iPhone, S60 devices? Nope. Freeware? Hell no on the iPhone, anything worth a damn costs money, and pretty good on S60 devices. Customization? WinMo KILLS the other platforms in terms of customization. Straight out of the box you can change colors, fonts, where things are, how they work, how they launch etc etc etc.
Your arguements hold no water my uninformed friend.