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Originally Posted by ehanhan
From A right to Z, eh?
To say Windows Mobile is in trouble implies it is on the verge of failure
Ballmer said they dropped the ball with the release of 6.5 which they did.
Do those things add up to a windowsmobile failure? Far from it.
Most people *I included sometimes* forget the business end of this business (lol) Sales to business account for high margin high volume sales and its not like businesses with WM devices are switching to Android anytime soon.
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I think this is the most accurate post concerning windows mobile. If you google the engadget interview with Peter Chou (HTC president) from 2007, you'll notice that he feels the iPhone and android platform cater to a different market segment than windows mobile. Chou's position is that they'll continue supporting and enhancing WinMobo for the business sector, and use android to compete with the iPhone. Look at the situation now, Touch Pro 2 is the best selling business phone behind the iPhone, and android is in the market catered to iPhone users.
However, sooner or later, those two markets are going to collide, which they are starting to do now, and then it'll be a showdown of higher end processors, memory, screen, functionality and a more mature Android, Symbian, iPhone OS, WebOS (hopefully they're still around) and WinMobile. Windows Mobile is in a good position to cross over from the business side to the iPhone type of social segment if they get things right, but Windows Mobile 7 is going to have to be really good. However, they need to start realizing that they own the business segment and need to continue enhancing that to stay in front of Android. Because sooner or later, Android is going to cross over to the business segment. Someone else earlier pointed to winmo 6.5 having certain advantages in the business side still, even after they dropped the ball.