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Re: How Microsoft blew it with Windows Mobile

I dont think the game is over yet. Microsoft needs to dump a boatload of money into the development tools, branding of a whole new Microsoft Mobile OS, and not give up. They continuously release new builds as a "hey look what I can do" sort of thing, but the real market share is gonna be in "eye candy" and usability + speed. They need to appeal to the iphone "less technically savvy" people, just like android is trying and iPhone already has. Microsoft has the power, I just dont know what they're waiting for. They need to make the MS Mobile platform "cool". Even with WM7 coming, I still dont think it's gonna shake too many iphone users away. Part of the problem with games etc, is writing them and debugging them for the WM OS is so damn difficult and buggy, with all kinds of constraints all over the place. The development tools just are not there yet for powerful gaming apps. I'm a developer, I have tried to write for WM. Too much work. Apples C iphone SDK is so easy to use. But yet I cant write jack for Mac's. They need to just start allowing ATOM processors in our phones. Not just ARM instruction sets. That would really cripple apple's iphone. Or allow full x86 Windows OS's to be run on an ARM processor. Smaller versions of course.
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