Is Windows Mobile Vanishing?

[iknight8]

as one user already posted!!!
lets just not talk abt which is best becuz one is best today might not be tomorrow thats how the market works and it all comes down to preference!!!!
WinMo, Iphone, Andriod are all great OS for mobile computing! although i love WinMo... so lets just stop arguing and b happy wit wat we have and b in peace lol

[djqwikcut]

I actually like my WM TP2 better then the iphone or android... I like how easy it was to get 6.5 installed and all the mods and it is really fast... I dont like that on the iPhone when the battery dies you are stuck as you cant replace it.. but I have 3 batteries for my Tp2

[Technoob]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

The average consuimer? LOL, the average consumer doesn't spend several hundred dollars on a smartphone either.

I would bet my life that if you take all of the people who own smartphones and ask if they would like to tether, watch a slingbox, multitask, and install whatever app you want without having to get approval from big brother- the vast majority of them will definitely want to do at least one of those things. Even you jail broke your phone to give you the ability to do some of those things, so don't pretend that nobody cares about it. Again- Windows Mobile does it all out of the box with no flashing (or jail breaking) required.

And yes, I know you multitask. You already said that. Too bad you had to jump through hoops jail breaking your phone in order to get that functionality. And too bad apple could kill that functionality at any m,oment- and likely will in their next update (as all of their updates in the past have done), causing you to go through it all over again assuming the community finds a way to jail break it again (which they probably will).

I'm not embarrasing myself man. I already know the deal with the iPhone.

i dont use"slingbox,"...
I dont cook "cabs" hoping my phone will run better....
I dont want to "reset "every 3-4days...
I dont want to "wait" for my browser to load up.
I dont want to do"registry tweaks"
I dont need to install "apps" without permission from the "big-brother" when half of them dont do what they are meant for.
I am not even going into" if Tp2 Os feels and look better"


I will simply like to state that Touch Pro2 is an awesome device on a garbage, outdated Os!

[BlackDynamite]

Originally Posted by drrohit81

i dont use"slingbox,"...
I dont cook "cabs" hoping my phone will run better....
I dont want to "reset "every 3-4days...
I dont want to "wait" for my browser to load up.
I dont want to do"registry tweaks"
I dont need to install "apps" without permission from the "big-brother" when half of them dont do what they are meant for.
I am not even going into" if Tp2 Os feels and look better"


I will simply like to state that Touch Pro2 is an awesome device on a garbage, outdated Os!

I haven't reset my phone in months. My ROM is solid, fast, and stable.
I don't "cook cabs" hoping the phone will run better either. Like I said, my ROM is fast and stable.
You have to wait for the browser to load on every platform. This isn't Star Trek, lol. It might load a couple seconds faster or whatever, but you're waiting on any device.
You don't have to do registry tweaks. It's nice to have that option though if you want to. For example- I tweaked the registry to change my SMS windows input size. I didn't have to, but it was nice that I could if I wanted to.
What do you mean apps don't do what they are meant for? You mean like how the sling player app got rejected by Apple and they had to take the 3G out of it to get it approved? Yeah, I would say a sling player app that doesn't work over the internet most definitely doesn't do what it was meant to.
And go ahead and get into the interface if you want. My SPB Mobile Shell interface is way better than the iPhone interface. It feels better and it looks better. Why? Because I cutomized it exactly how I wanted it. I wasn't forced to adapt to one that didn't quite work for me. I set it up designed from the ground up to make my style (or workflow) go smoother and easier. And that can NEVER happen on an iPhone.

[Technoob]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

I haven't reset my phone in months. My ROM is solid, fast, and stable.
I don't "cook cabs" hoping the phone will run better either. Like I said, my ROM is fast and stable.
You have to wait for the browser to load on every platform. This isn't Star Trek, lol. It might load a couple seconds faster or whatever, but you're waiting on any device.
You don't have to do registry tweaks. It's nice to have that option though if you want to. For example- I tweaked the registry to change my SMS windows input size. I didn't have to, but it was nice that I could if I wanted to.
What do you mean apps don't do what they are meant for? You mean like how the sling player app got rejected by Apple and they had to take the 3G out of it to get it approved? Yeah, I would say a sling player app that doesn't work over the internet most definitely doesn't do what it was meant to.
And go ahead and get into the interface if you want. My SPB Mobile Shell interface is way better than the iPhone interface. It feels better and it looks better. Why? Because I cutomized it exactly how I wanted it. I wasn't forced to adapt to one that didn't quite work for me. I set it up designed from the ground up to make my style (or workflow) go smoother and easier. And that can NEVER happen on an iPhone.

Ok nice...
Enjoy your WM platform...
To each his own.
but think about it why is WM losing it real bad if it has such awesome features that you just described!
It Not USER-FRIENDLY!
I think that is what defines a successful OS plateform(which Apple and android have!)

Though i agree i would have thrown TP2 out of window..if it was not for SBP shell... it rocks man!

[brownhornet]

Thank goodness someone else here has common sense

[BlackDynamite]

Originally Posted by drrohit81

Ok nice...
Enjoy your WM platform...
To each his own.
but think about it why is WM losing it real bad if it has such awesome features that you just described!
It Not USER-FRIENDLY!
I think that is what defines a successful OS plateform(which Apple and android have!)

Though i agree i would have thrown TP2 out of window..if it was not for SBP shell... it rocks man!

The reasons Windows Mobile is losing market share are:
#1: Marketing. When is the last time you saw a Windows Mobile commercial? There are probably 1000 iPhone commercials for every 1 Windows Mobile commercial on tv (at least in the USA).

#2: Pricing. The iPhone is only $200. Everyone knows this. The Touch Pro 2 costs around $350. You can get it for $200 on Verizon, and Verizon stayed sold out for over a month when they first released it. And this was with no advertising whatsoever, and no stores even had a demo unit to show customers.

#3: Data pricing. When the first iPhone was released, the data plan was cheaper than on any other smartphone. It costs the same now, but they got everyone onto contracts with that cheaper data plan (and contracts are required on all new iPhone plans on AT&T).

#4: AT&T's aggressive sales. I actually had AT&T up until a couple months ago when I switched to Sprint. I used to get bill inserts all the time offering me an iPhone for $25 if I would sign a contract extension. And this was before I was even eligible for upgrade pricing on any other phone. I doubt I am the only one who got these inserts, and I am pretty sure they resulted in plenty of iPhone sales.

NONE of that stuff ever happened on ANY Windows Mobile device (at least in the USA). And whn you look at it- just any ONE of them would probably be anough to help iPhone sales. But ALL of them combined are surely enough to have a huge impact on sales.

I won't even get into all the idiots just buying iPhones because it's now the "cool" phone to have (it's the new RAZR). But it became the "cool" phone because of the 4 reasons I listed.

It's hillarious how many idiots said stupid things like "I don't care about copy and paste anyway. I don't need it." And then when they got copy and paste, they acted like their phone was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I suspect that same thing will happen when the iPhone is able to watch a slingbox using the internet.

[Q_Q]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

It's hillarious how many idiots said stupid things like "I don't care about copy and paste anyway. I don't need it." And then when they got copy and paste, they acted like their phone was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I suspect that same thing will happen when the iPhone is able to watch a slingbox using the internet.

OMG!! This is so true! My poseur brother in law who knows nothing about 'working the tech' & is basically a gas & go doctor type said that very thing!

LOL!

There is a reason it's called smartphones vs. iBringPhoneIntoGeekBarToGetHelpOnHowToUse.

btw, he's the protypical nitwit who buys a Mac for the flat keyboard, white form factor & big LCD jsut to surf on the web.

So glad my sister is the smart one...she actually runs the house including the tech support in that relationship! LOL=D>

[Q_Q]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

And FYI i've already said I can multi-task, AND I can tether so please just give it up.

I don't think an avg consumer knows how or care to do this either.

That said, there is a comfort to knowing that the world is safe & easy in the little 4x4 square matrix that Apple or whoever else has given to their consumers.

[p-slim]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

The reasons Windows Mobile is losing market share are:
#1: Marketing. When is the last time you saw a Windows Mobile commercial? There are probably 1000 iPhone commercials for every 1 Windows Mobile commercial on tv (at least in the USA).

#2: Pricing. The iPhone is only $200. Everyone knows this. The Touch Pro 2 costs around $350. You can get it for $200 on Verizon, and Verizon stayed sold out for over a month when they first released it. And this was with no advertising whatsoever, and no stores even had a demo unit to show customers.

#3: Data pricing. When the first iPhone was released, the data plan was cheaper than on any other smartphone. It costs the same now, but they got everyone onto contracts with that cheaper data plan (and contracts are required on all new iPhone plans on AT&T).

#4: AT&T's aggressive sales. I actually had AT&T up until a couple months ago when I switched to Sprint. I used to get bill inserts all the time offering me an iPhone for $25 if I would sign a contract extension. And this was before I was even eligible for upgrade pricing on any other phone. I doubt I am the only one who got these inserts, and I am pretty sure they resulted in plenty of iPhone sales.

NONE of that stuff ever happened on ANY Windows Mobile device (at least in the USA). And whn you look at it- just any ONE of them would probably be anough to help iPhone sales. But ALL of them combined are surely enough to have a huge impact on sales.

I won't even get into all the idiots just buying iPhones because it's now the "cool" phone to have (it's the new RAZR). But it became the "cool" phone because of the 4 reasons I listed.

It's hillarious how many idiots said stupid things like "I don't care about copy and paste anyway. I don't need it." And then when they got copy and paste, they acted like their phone was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I suspect that same thing will happen when the iPhone is able to watch a slingbox using the internet.

you keep forgetting one major thing, when you sell alot of handsets you have more flexibility. apple can sell the iphone for that cheap because they know if they manufacture enough phones they will all get sold so they will profit. the iphone didn't start out that cheap but then as it became a comidity and all the apps blew up and they had backers from every single company, its not a problem to lower phone prices. If windows lowered their prices and started advertising the amount of money they would spend would need to be made back up in phone sells, which probably wouldn't happen. If you have much demand then lowering your prices isn't that hard.