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Originally Posted by bcollier
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This is a really great lively thread. Way too many good comments & views to quote & respond to directly. A few common feelings here: 1) We're long time (pre smartphone)handheld users. 2) We love this o/s or we wouldn't be here. 3) We're PO'd w/ MS, handset mfgr's & the telcoms for the major abandonment. . The question is: besides vent, (which is helpful) what can/are we going to do about it? Here's something I'd like to see: Sure, fold WinMo into Windows Embedded, but also, end what amounts to a reverse boycott of their own customer base. There is a sizeable market out here for this o/s (along w/ all the others including WinPhone) to be run on robust, feature packed hardware. I suggest we form an advocacy group or whatever would accurately describe us. Let's some how tie such a thread in w/ the other sites out there (to numerous to mention here). Let's demonstrate that there are real & marketable needs for WinMo and it's continued development still. - Thanks for the space.
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This is an good idea, but I just don't think it would really accomplish a whole lot, simply because MS is a big enough company that they can easily afford to not give a shit what their customers want. No matter how loud we yell, it will fall on deaf ears & they will do whatever THEY want. I thought about trying to organize a big petition or a protest about what they're doing to WM, but I decided to just make the switch to Android instead. If MS is gonna ignore their biggest fanbase in favor of trying to woo the drooling iPhone-loving masses, then f*ck 'em. Google & Linux will have my loyalty & accolades from now on, and I will sit back and watch MS fail horribly just like I did Palm. I'm so mad, in fact, that I'm thinking about installing Ubuntu on my laptop & doing away with MS completely. Not that it will actually hurt them in the slightest, but the feeling of "So there, take that!" will give me a small bit of Schadenfreude satisfaction.
And the dev community can only carry WM so far. I remember reading the same things all over the Treo forums when Palm announced the discontinuance of Garnet- "Don't worry, the dev community will keep Palm OS alive!"..... and they didn't. Most of the old Palm forums have been either taken down completely or were converted to all-Pre stuff. POS is all but a memory now, only used by Treo-toting businessmen here & there who have yet to cash in their upgrade and get a new phone. Sorry to be ants at a picnic, I've just got a lot of butt-hurt over this. I was really upset at losing Palm, and then as soon as I find another OS that I absolutely loved, it's getting taken away from me too. I feel like Bill Dauterive. If they descontinue Android next I'm just gonna lose it.
MS should have just stuck with the core OS and simply fixed all the stuff that's wrong with WM and brought it up to date by adding new features instead of rewriting the whole thing into an oversimplified, backpedaling, glorified Instinct OS. WP7 will be a laughable failure, mark my words.