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Originally Posted by gimme5
Very good comparison. Of course we'll have to wait and see.
I wonder if HTC could have their UI run as an app on startup.
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Agreed, HTC will customize within the framework. Which will likely mean they won't control the entire interface like they do now, but why would MS but all this money in 7 new UI, then let a hardware vendor bypass it. It would be irresponsible of MS to let HTC replace their new UI with the old Sense. The old Sense UI like SPB will have to evolve or die.
Either we we benefit from tighter OS integration and less need for 3rd party apps out of the box. That is why it'll appeal to many more people and piss off developers trying to sell apps that fixed problems in WinMo that will no longer exist on the new platform. As a consumer and tech it doesn't bother me.
At first I was irked by a lot of the changes like others but then I realized like everyone else was saying before this announcement, if they don't make big changes in 7, WinMo is dead. Now they made the changes necessary to win market share of all users and some of us tech geeks start to cry. Already forgetting about the needed big changes they were wishing for.
We can't have our cake and eat it to. Either they build a consumer focused OS and we customize it as much as possible so it continues or it dies as yesterday's technology.