Is Windows Mobile Vanishing?

[p-slim]

Originally Posted by Q_Q

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.

you are wrong. one of the top 10 apps for the nexus is the wifi tethering app. that being one of the top 10 apps out of 20,000+ apps, the average consumer is stepping their wifi game up. mobile tethering is a big deal now.

[one80oneday]

What's the answer? Dual boot! I think WM will try a Zune Phone that might be somewhat popular but none of us would be interested and it will eventually vanish. I'd just like to a device like HD2 that could dual boot android and WM that way I can choose what I want to run. I don't see myself buying an android device anytime soon.

[quickstang]

Originally Posted by Q_Q

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.

Funny you state that. Last week, my girlfriend got a BB 8530. I actually think it looks quite nice, and works quite well. No EVDO on Sprint like my TP2, but... i'm sure the Tour 2 will be out soon, so who cares. Anyway, I was playing with her phone and mentioned tethering, and she goes.... HUH? I said you can connect your phone to your computer to browse the web. I tested out that program WMWifirouter and got it to work on my laptop and was browsing pretty nicely. I was like WOO HOO. Totally didn't even think about that option, and found it very nice. Even looked at my bill, and nothing changed. Only on for a few minutes, but it was fine.

Anyway, my girl still said...HUH.

I said let me put it in NON GEEK terms. You can use the data on your phone to get the internet on your computer when.... AND IT WENT OVER HER HEAD.

Anyway, I gave up, and the important thing was I knew what it was. She was also like... Dont you touch my phone cause you always seem to mess yours up changing and installing all sorts of stuff.

Only happened once when I installed that SRSWOW deal and it totally screwed the phone. I fixed it. But she never wants me to touch her phone.

I look at crackberry and all the cool stuff, and tell her she needs to get X app and try this and that, and she says... I LIKE MY PHONE THE WAY IT IS.

She plans on doing absolutely nothing with it but the normal txt, and surfing the web. BLOG WHAT? TWITTER WHAT? RSS WHAT? Yeah, not her. Probably e-mail and berry messenger and facebook, but that's about it.

If you work at a Best Buy and love all this stuff and have a girl with no idea, you know what I go through.

[Q_Q]

Originally Posted by drrohit81

i dont use"slingbox,"...

Then you don't know how to enjoy the wonders of mobile timeshifting

Originally Posted by drrohit81

I dont cook "cabs" hoping my phone will run better....

Cause you can't or you rather pay for it

Originally Posted by drrohit81

I dont want to "reset "every 3-4days...

But you readily do it everyday @ work or home on your PC or its has to be done everytime you have to reset your network or security/update patches made your PC.

Originally Posted by drrohit81

I dont want to "wait" for my browser to load up.

cause you are in a fringe EVDO area? Cause my stock OPERA is lighting quick more so than my PC's Firefox or IE or Chrome.

Originally Posted by drrohit81

I dont want to do"registry tweaks"

Ignorance is bliss

Originally Posted by drrohit81

I dont need to install "apps" without permission from the "big-brother" when half of them dont do what they are meant for.

But apple & google will fail to tell you the security holes they have on their push email systems:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/...,0&source=fssr

Originally Posted by drrohit81

I am not even going into" if Tp2 Os feels and look better"

I'm not going to call your Mom ugly. Aesthetics.

Originally Posted by drrohit81

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

Simple naive analysis.

[Q_Q]

Originally Posted by p-slim

you are wrong. one of the top 10 apps for the nexus is the wifi tethering app. that being one of the top 10 apps out of 20,000+ apps, the average consumer is stepping their wifi game up. mobile tethering is a big deal now.

My Mom & Brother in Law are avg customers.
They don't do mobile tethering.
They find a wifi hot spot with their netbooks.

That said, I am a gear head & I don't mobile tether either. I recognize it's for ppl who want to diversify their broadband options on the go.

Not discounting its rise or potential. But not saying 95% of the general public knows or use it also.
Case in point the>> drrohit81.
Of course that is a below avg example but you get the point.

[Technoob]

Originally Posted by Q_Q

Then you don't know how to enjoy the wonders of mobile timeshifting

Cause you can't or you rather pay for it

But you readily do it everyday @ work or home on your PC or its has to be done everytime you have to reset your network or security/update patches made your PC.

cause you are in a fringe EVDO area? Cause my stock OPERA is lighting quick more so than my PC's Firefox or IE or Chrome.

Ignorance is bliss

But apple & google will fail to tell you the security holes they have on their push email systems:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/...,0&source=fssr


I'm not going to call your Mom ugly. Aesthetics.


Simple naive analysis.

Live under the stone in your deep well with WM!


Enjoy while it lasts(by the awesome way WM is marketing it it doesn't look its going to be long around)
Why just Wm fan-boys swallow that the time has come for pushing the plug out for WM!
Anyways...this forum is big time WM so i was expecting these types of geeky responses!

In BTW: What are you cooking!

[butler360]

I don't know how much weight a prediction like this carries but maybe this will help at least show WM is not going to "vanish."

http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=12476

[Drewidian]

See here... Windows mobile predicted to grow faster than blackberry and Palm. Will still have more marketshare than Iphone.

http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=12484

Dagnabit butler360 you beat me by 30 seconds.

[Paragon]

You guys all talk marketshare as it relates to the Smartphone market and how poorly MS is doing, as well as not appreciating the value of enterprise (business) sales. Windows Mobile was around long before it was used on phones, and still is...big time. A very large percentage of the devices that you see couriers, route sales, and the likes using are Windows Mobile. Not to mention almost all of the Telzon type guns you see people using in all the bigbox stores on a daily basis, that run with WiFi instead of cellular networks. There are millions of these devices in use, and those numbers do not show up. MS is far from dead. It has an extremely large and solid base. You and I just don't see the biggest portion of their business. Throw in Windows CE, the core OS for Windows Mobile, it is everywhere. It is most cars today. It is used in everything from toasters to gas pumps. Consumer sales have never been huge for them, however it does look like they are going to pay much more attention to in the future.

Dave

[quickstang]

@Paragon... And the wireless Telzons also have touch screens. at least the ones i've used before. It's like a mini windows on a gun with a laser. LMAO