[thefreeaccount2]

It's a tough world for WM developers. They have to rewrite their applications for the new semi-finger-friendly WM6.5 UI, knowing that they'll have to rewrite them again soon since "finger friendly, for real, seriously now" WM7 is just around the corner.

And then there are the handicapped children in the basement...the non-touchscreen WM phones, somehow still oozing from the womb even in this age of the $199 iphone. What are you to do about them? Two versions of the same program? One ugly hack that is functional for both but desirable for neither? Not to mention the infinite permutations of processor speed, available memory, screen size/resolution, and miscellaneous features such as the accelerometer and compass.

WM development will continue to lag until there is a "final solution" to the problem of hardware diversity.