“Windows Mobile has nothing to fear from either the iPhone or Google Android, says Microsoft’s John Curran,” Paul Douglas reports for TechRadar.
“TechRadar asked the Windows business lead for Microsoft UK how he saw Windows Mobile, Android and the iPhone divvying up market share in three years’ time,” Douglas reports. “‘Well I would have to say that number one would be, not surprisingly, Microsoft,’ says Curran. ‘We’ve got over 50 partners… from a hardware perspective we’re really well positioned.’”
Douglas reports, “Placing Android and Apple in order in the remaining three rivals is ‘a tough call,’ he continues. ‘One’s an emerging one, the other is a very limited form factor. One has relatively limited hardware support and limited distribution; the other is just one form factor from one company with limited choices of operators. So they both at this point feel fairly restrictive compared to all the great options consumers would have with a Windows Mobile phone.’”
MacDailyNews Take: Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 20 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. She wrote for the “Microsoft Watch” blog for Ziff Davis and currently writes for ZDNet’s “All About Microsoft” blog. Foley once wondered if Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard would drive some switchers to Windows Vista. We kid you not. Foley also once wrote a whole column about how, to her, Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard looks like Microsoft’s Windows Vista (while totally ignoring that Windows Vista tries (and fails) to look and act like Mac OS X. Any version. Starting with the Mac OS X beta which was released 8 years ago last month. That’s over 6 years prior to Vista’s glorious debut and even month before the release of Windows XP. In other words, she’s a Microsoft sycophant through and through. So, just for kicks, let’s see what Mary Jo Foley thinks of Windows Mobile: “I’ve avoided it like the plague. Every time I get a new cellphone, everyone always warns me not to get Windows Mobile. The thing’s awful.”
Douglas continues, “If you look at the exciting new phones that are coming out here in the UK, we’ve got some great consumer phones, whether it’s the HTC Diamond, the Samsung Omnia, the Sony Ericsson Experia X1… these are great, exciting phones that have all of the features consumers are looking for, plus they bring in the experiences people would expect with Windows.”"
MacDailyNews Take:
• WSJ’s Mossberg Solution: HTC can’t disguise Windows Mobile flaws – September 04, 2008
• vnunet: Samsung’s wannabe Omnia just cannot match Apple’s revolutionary iPhone – September 18, 2008
• Future Sony Ericsson phones may eschew Microsoft’s Windows Mobile – September 15, 2008
• Sony Ericsson to axe 2,000 jobs – July 18, 2008
• Sony Ericsson warns: moderating demand of its mid-to-high-end phones negatively affecting income – June 27, 2008
• Sony Ericsson warns of falling phone sales – March 19, 2008
• Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1 tries to look like Apple’s iPhone for a reason – February 12, 2008
Douglas’ full article is here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Joe Architect" for the heads up.]
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