Windows Mobile 7 delayed AGAIN!!!

[Young_breedent]

Originally Posted by hyakku

That's not going to help the consumer. If anything, it will only consume or infuriate them to find that they thought they were getting the latest technology only to have a crippled version. In addiition, no one wants to be using old technology. there are a plethora of phones that would run better with WM 5 still up there, but they have 6.1 installed. You assume that customers will be well informed about their choices, but people want what's going to look nice and work well.

As for the pricing issue, unless you are buying your phone unlocked you won't be paying that much, and consumers are obviously willing to spend $150-$300 on a phone (see the G1, Iphone, Pre) that inherently works and comes with a ton of bells and whistles.

Most consumers aren't actually that informed sorry. We are a slim few. They just want something that looks cool. And windows 6.5 hasn't even been officially released yet. So explain how you can call it crippled??? Right now windows has two different versions of windows mobile and people aren't complaining they get what works for them and they can afford. They have windows mobile standard for smartphones without a touch screen and then they have windows mobile professional for touch screens. This is the same concept except your actually getting more with 6.5 than you did with the non-touch screen version of windows out now. And windows mobile professional phone are never $150 when they are released. I was saying $500 for buying it without an upgrade which would be close to if not more then the price it would be. Even with an upgrade the phone is $249. So having a cheaper version, people who would prefer that $99 iphone might pick up that $129 windows 6.5 device instead. Who knows what the price will be for a windows mobile 7 device. It makes perfect sense seriously. Companies are all about making money and i think people forget that. They want to get as much market share as possible. By doing this they definitely will be headed in the right direction.