Android versus WinMo - a personal experience

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Originally Posted by gTen

I do not disagree Microsoft's presence, mostly in the business world but the use of Exchange makes me sad. Syncing is part of making all technology work together and those need to have standards and be open source for it to have competition and variety.

Also viewing is free but editing costs $$$..but that aside from the microsoft is not the only one setting standards for documents..many formats exist including PDF, ODF and etc which are commonly used.

There is compatibility with use of 3rd party apps but in general I believe people should migrate off solutions that do not allow flexibility. If Microsoft wants to sell exchange they should open up activesync. But Microsoft tries to get both which is bad for consumers and businesses.

I do not think MS is really the issue. Take a look at the Pre. The way exchange is fully integrated into the device is beautiful; tasks, email, calendars, and contacts all sync very nicely into the native UI. In addition, Palm's layering of contacts, emails, calendars, etc from multiple accounts is revolutionary. I think Android could have incorporated something a little better into the native UI.