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Originally Posted by jmorton10
Although I love my TP's (I have three of them), there is NO WAY I would ever recommend the TP to anyone else. [emphasis added]
I tell people all the time that Windows phones are NOT for everybody. The average user that would absolutely LOVE an iphone would never put up with all the tweaks necessary to get a WM phone working correctly......
~John
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This is my feeling exactly. I tell my father (iPhone user) about how much I love my phone and he asks, "Should I be jealous? Do I need one?" -- and I have to explain that no matter what cool stuff I can do with my phone, he would stand about a snowflake's chance in Hades of getting a Touch Pro to work as well *for him* as the iPhone does.
Windows Mobile, in general, has been a total failure in terms of mainstream usability, but has been a huge success in terms of providing an open and nonrestrictive foundation for community support and development. It's a platform for technical-minded critical thinkers, people who can not only handle advanced device features and configurations, but crave such things -- and the iPhone is rather the opposite, a platform which encourages only *approved* software development and community modifications, for people that are naturally repelled by the need to learn advanced features and configurations, and just want simple, basic functionality.
Hopefully, future iterations of Windows Mobile will close the gap, and allow people who want simplicity to get off the iPhone crutch while still allowing the rest of us to get under the hood. I can dream, can't I?