MacDailyNews Take: People have long tried to out-Apple Apple. It has yet to be accomplished.
Mortiz continues, “Instead of one brilliant thing — an application or some flash of originality — Microsoft rolled out a hodgepodge of features that seem oddly familiar to anyone who’s used an iPhone or an Android device.”
MacDailyNews Take: And the reason they seem familiar to Android settlers just might have something to do infringement upon Apple’s patented intellectual property.
Mortiz continues, “A short test drive of the HTC Surround, which lands at AT&T on Nov. 8, proved Windows 7 to be easy and pleasing. Windows 7’s identifying feature is its home screen, which has tiles instead of icons.”
MacDailyNews Take: An icon by any other name is still a icon.
Mortiz continues, “Microsoft earned style points for making an easy, attractive user interface. The quality of the transitions (animations) as you move between tasks makes you feel like they put some effort into it. Very smooth and very Apple-like, you might say. But among the elements missing to a spectacular launch of Windows 7 was a drop-dead, show stopper feature that will help convince Apple and Android fans that there’s a whole new game in town.”
MacDailyNews Take: It seems rather generous to describe people who’ve settled for Android devices because their carrier couldn’t offer them the real thing as “fans.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft could have unveiled the perfect smartphone OS, that doesn’t omit Cut-Copy-Paste or Multitasking or Tethering and that is wholly original and doesn’t infringe on other companies’ intellectual property, and they would still be nearly 4 years late to the game. It’s superfluous to the marketplace. They can try to force their way in with $500 million in marketing and, if successful, damage the other iPhone wannabes like Android, but, like all of the other also-rans, they have not even come close to equalling iOS much less accomplished the tremendous feat of leapfrogging iOS, which is what Microsoft needed to do in order to make up for being so woefully late to the game.
@ mmm
That is their “design” – I know it is pretty ugly – only about a decade behind..
@ mmm
That is their “design” – I know it is pretty ugly – only about a decade behind..
Windows Phone 7: When having just a phucked up computer isn’t enough.
Windows Phone 7: When having just a phucked up computer isn’t enough.
@disposableidentity
“That’s the problem with Microsoft. Their products are all about superficial gloss, and people only buy their stuff because of all the marketing.”
I don’t think so. Most people buy their stuff because it is included in their cheap-as-possible netbook, desktop or phone. They don’t choose Windows, they choose the cheapest box in the shop.
Office is a bit different: everybody hates Word, but is forced to use it, because it’s the standard.
I think Microsoft would just do the same without marketing – that shows you how bad their marketing is.
@disposableidentity
“That’s the problem with Microsoft. Their products are all about superficial gloss, and people only buy their stuff because of all the marketing.”
I don’t think so. Most people buy their stuff because it is included in their cheap-as-possible netbook, desktop or phone. They don’t choose Windows, they choose the cheapest box in the shop.
Office is a bit different: everybody hates Word, but is forced to use it, because it’s the standard.
I think Microsoft would just do the same without marketing – that shows you how bad their marketing is.
@MDN you skate a dangerous line, accusing google of patent infringing apple when this has not been proved. Perhaps google should sue you.
@MDN you skate a dangerous line, accusing google of patent infringing apple when this has not been proved. Perhaps google should sue you.
Windows Phone 7: There’s a nap for that.
Windows Phone 7: There’s a nap for that.
Comment from: Brulek “@MDN you skate a dangerous line, accusing google of patent infringing apple when this has not been proved. Perhaps google should sue you.”
Brulek Your a Delusional wannabe, Get a education or just stay off the internet you idiot.
Why the Hell does ever small minded idiot want to sue someone when they don’t get they’re way or their favorite company isn’t exactly smelling like the rose they had thought they where.
Yea and i am talking about Googles B.S. also.
Brulek, Allot of us see through Google and what they are doing, so keep your white wash cover party for the automatons that have been sold by the B.S of Free for everyone.
Nothings Free Old Boy, Nothing.
Dont Like It, So Sue Me
Comment from: Brulek “@MDN you skate a dangerous line, accusing google of patent infringing apple when this has not been proved. Perhaps google should sue you.”
Brulek Your a Delusional wannabe, Get a education or just stay off the internet you idiot.
Why the Hell does ever small minded idiot want to sue someone when they don’t get they’re way or their favorite company isn’t exactly smelling like the rose they had thought they where.
Yea and i am talking about Googles B.S. also.
Brulek, Allot of us see through Google and what they are doing, so keep your white wash cover party for the automatons that have been sold by the B.S of Free for everyone.
Nothings Free Old Boy, Nothing.
Dont Like It, So Sue Me
@ W.T.Effyall
Good one!
@ W.T.Effyall
Good one!
Let’s be clear. There was no “hodgepodge of features” or even any real smartphones until the iPhone came along. The only thing that seems familiar to me is everyone repeating the same “copy Apple” dance that they started many years ago and kicked into high gear in the late 1990s. Remember when the CRT iMac started the bright colors fad?
I have no doubt that many companies are infringing upon Apple’s patent portfolio. It is also possible that Apple is infringing upon a few patents, and a few of them might even be valid patents.
Let’s be clear. There was no “hodgepodge of features” or even any real smartphones until the iPhone came along. The only thing that seems familiar to me is everyone repeating the same “copy Apple” dance that they started many years ago and kicked into high gear in the late 1990s. Remember when the CRT iMac started the bright colors fad?
I have no doubt that many companies are infringing upon Apple’s patent portfolio. It is also possible that Apple is infringing upon a few patents, and a few of them might even be valid patents.
MS will do/spend whatever it takes to make Windows Phone 7 viable. They have no choice.
MS will do/spend whatever it takes to make Windows Phone 7 viable. They have no choice.
Windows Phone 7: “Designed to get you IN and OUT and back to life.”
The Cure:
Masters and Johnson Technique
Windows Phone 7: “Designed to get you IN and OUT and back to life.”
The Cure:
Masters and Johnson Technique
” Iphone killer # 778 ”
Just like how Zune was gonna topple iPod !!
What an UGLY device …… LOL !!!!!
” Iphone killer # 778 ”
Just like how Zune was gonna topple iPod !!
What an UGLY device …… LOL !!!!!
What makes anyone think this will go great. Didnt the KIN phones look very simmelar to this in the UI? also lets see it looks allot like zune and the ZUNE HD has not caught on and still has only 48 apps after a year.
Also found this
According to Microsoft:
“Both KIN and Windows Phone 7 share common OS components, software and services. We will seek to align around a single platform for both products as well as consistent hardware specifications.”
Microsoft said that the underlying fundamentals of Kin and Windows Phone 7 will be held together by similar core technologies. Both Kin and Windows Phone 7 run the same Silverlight platform.
HMM so we have a failed product and a product that has not really gone anywhere since its inception over a year ago and now they are basing this entire new mobile lineup on the same interface.
Yea keep at it MS just keep wasting money
What makes anyone think this will go great. Didnt the KIN phones look very simmelar to this in the UI? also lets see it looks allot like zune and the ZUNE HD has not caught on and still has only 48 apps after a year.
Also found this
According to Microsoft:
“Both KIN and Windows Phone 7 share common OS components, software and services. We will seek to align around a single platform for both products as well as consistent hardware specifications.”
Microsoft said that the underlying fundamentals of Kin and Windows Phone 7 will be held together by similar core technologies. Both Kin and Windows Phone 7 run the same Silverlight platform.
HMM so we have a failed product and a product that has not really gone anywhere since its inception over a year ago and now they are basing this entire new mobile lineup on the same interface.
Yea keep at it MS just keep wasting money
Android… will go down soon too… In any case, i am looking at VZ call options or T (AT&T) option puts… puts seem to be easier knowing that AT&T losing the iPhone is an eventuality and another market bomb must be on the way. But a far out VZ call is also possible.