Is Windows Mobile Vanishing?

[BlackDynamite]

WIndows Mobile is not dying, lol.

You SERO users need to understand that you're a drop in the bucket. If Spritn kicked everyone off of SERO it wouldn't even make a dent in the number of Windows Mobile users.

Seriously man, even in the USA that number is not big enough to be relevant. Sprint is a dying company, and the SERO users are a very small minority of their total customers.

And worldwide- are you kidding me? Sprint's SERO customers are nothing compared to all the people getting free HD2's on contract overseas.

Don't forget- on Verizon the Touch Pro 2 was sold out for like a month (or even longer) when it was first released. Peopl do actually like the Touch Pro 2. It's a great device. And this is coming from a guy who isn't on a SERO plan.

When Windows Mobile 7 is released, it will do well if they advertise it. It will do crappy if they don't.

Has anyone seen that Sprint commercial where they say something like "These people are using Sprint's 3 best smartphones..." and they go on to mention the Moment, some Blackberry, and the Pixi? No mention of the Touch Pro 2.

It's like Sprint (and other carriers) have totally abandoned the Windows Mobile platform. I think part of the reason for this is because of how easy it is to tether on Windows Mobile, and how many apps there are that use data. All of the carriers hate tethering, and Windows Mobile has it built in by default. SO the carriers have special ROMs made for them that have it removed. But anyone who cares about tethering and spends that kind of money on a device just comes here or xda and gets tethering enabled.

Carriers don't like this. They want to charge $30-$40 per month for tethering (see the Palm devices on Verizon). And since Microsoft wouldn't cave, the carriers black balled Microsoft.

Hopefully Microsoft stands their ground and continues to make tethering easy in future devices.