MacDailyNews Take: Make that “Mac-class,” Sascha.
Segan continues, “The App Store is, far and away, the best way to find and buy applications for a mobile device. By centralizing application discovery and putting it on every phone and in every copy of iTunes, Apple has made mobile apps easier to find and use than ever before.”
“Even if you’re not planning to add any apps (and why not?) there are still reasons to upgrade. The most important, for many business people, is Microsoft Exchange syncing. The iPhone syncs over the air, two ways, with Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2 or later servers. We tried it with an Exchange 2007 server, and it gave us push email quickly and efficiently. You can turn on mail, calendar, and contact syncing separately,” Segan reports.
“In terms of the smart phone operating system marketplace, the iPhone is still a niche player. Microsoft’s Windows Mobile remains our Editors’ Choice because it’s available on a much wider range of devices, and has an even wider range of software and capabilities than iPhone 2.0 does. Nonetheless, the iPhone 2.0 upgrade is a must-get for any iPhone owner, who can download it for free, or even iPod Touch users, who must pay the reasonable fee of $10. The new apps in the App Store will make you look at both devices a whole new way,” Segan reports.
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Niche. They love the word “niche.” It’s all they have left. Using it makes them feel better about choosing inferior crap in order to save a nickel upfront.
With more and more people switching away from Microsoft garbage (desktop, notebook, and mobile devices), PC Magazine faces the very real prospect of becoming the equivalent of Typewriter Magazine. Our guess is that they recognize their perilous situation all too well. It’s lucky for them that they love the word “niche” so much.
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile is feces compared to iPhone’s OS X 2.0. That’s simply a statement of fact. Steve Ballmer couldn’t get his 85-year-old uncle to line up with him in Redmond for one of those slabs of crap, much less generate hundreds of thousands of people lining up and camping out in countries around the globe!
Now, if being a so-called “niche player,” bars one from gaining PC Magazine’s vaunted “Editor’s Choice” award, then why does Firefox warrant PC Magazine’s “Editors’ Choice”, but Internet Explorer does not? Or, for that matter, why does Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard get an “Editors’ Choice” designation from PC Magazine while Windows Vista goes lacking?
Logic can be such a bitch, huh, Sasch?
If PC Magazine is going to come up with lame-ass excuses for not awarding their “Editors’ Choice,” they ought to at least employ some consistency, lest they render their “award” completely meaningless.
People are retarded, MDN.
And they are EVERYHWERE.
w00t!
“an even wider range of software and capabilities than iPhone 2.0 does”
These guys pants are on fire…lightning is gonna strike.
Awww poor fellah. Someone needs a hug. Quick call Ballmer, specially when he’s all sweaty and overexcited.
We can take this review with a grain of salt. I hear PC World’s sister magazine, $$ World still has Franny May & Freddie Mac as their Editors’ Choice for top Mortgage Lenders.
So much for that.
Hmmmmm
“”In terms of the smart phone operating system marketplace, the iPhone is still a niche player. Microsoft’s Windows Mobile remains our Editors’ Choice because it’s available on a much wider range of devices, and has an even wider range of software and capabilities than iPhone 2.0 does”
While I “can” put a saddle on a wide range of animals (elephant, sheep, alligator, llama, etc) our preferred animal is a horse (apple ?)
And as for a wider range of software and capabilities…. Hmmmmm maybe. But me and most of the world have never heard of software for windows mobile phones that we can load and use. Bill must be keeping that stuff secret.
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Even if the folks at PC Mag don’t like the iPhone, naming Windows Mobile as Editor’s Choice is a joke…the Blackberry is far superior to Windows Mobile
What would expect from PC Magazine?
Oh and while I’m at it, why does MDN need to compare iPhone and Windows Mobile to determine Windows Mobile is feces? Why not just compare Windows Mobile to Bird $hit?
The answer will stay the same.
Look, if windows mobile didnt have more stuff available currently for it then the iPhone 2.0 did at launch then there would be a huge problem.
iPhone has just hit warp speed and its going to blow by everyone else in no time flat.
Google’s Android will be on a wide range of hardware. Should be interesting to see if the editor changes his choice from Windows Mobile, to Google’s Android.
You know what else is the editor’s choice?
• Being insane
• Denial
• Delusions
• Steaming Hot Crap
• Blue Screens
• Retaining employment under the name “PC. . . . “.
• Camping out for a week for an HTC, even though . . . . . you know what I mean
Dickwaad!
Finally someone with the guts to tell the truth. Thank you Sascha for courageously setting the record straight. All of those glowing reviews of I-Phone 2.0 from illiterate astroturfers were making me sick. Truth is the puny market share I-Phone is about to be trounced by mighty Windows Mobile. On phones with real buttons that work in the enterprise. Suck it, MAC dorks, nobody is interested in your Windows Mobile wannabe phones. Anybody can wait in line. Is anyone actually buying these pieces of crap?
Your potential. Our passion.™
oh . . . . I forgot
Also on the editor’s choice list
• phones with 1.5″X1.5″ screens and buttons
(Yeah i’ve been loving using my razr between selling my 2.5 and buying my 3g. Makes me feel at home)
MDN destroyed his argument by finding those other Editors’ Choice awards.
Sascha Segan is usually cool but he’s a dick for that one.
Duh. iPhone is considered a Smart Phone which is a nitch market. Editors choice should be for the phone that is best in the catagory, not which platform is available on the most phones.
slippery thig comparing Windows Mobile to iPhone…one is software one is a device. A nice psychological marketing scenario that SJ has set up….like MAC vs PC. People aren’t going to go shopping for Windows Mobile, they are shopping for phones.
Windows Mobile is NOT “feces”….
It’s FAECES… faecal matter… Poo… plop… shite… excrement!
Now I will shut my potty mouth
And who wouldn’t want Mobile Viruses?
Eric Willard is a moron.
Billy Gates is a moron.
PC Mag Editor is a moron.
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Note that their only detriment with the iPhone OS is that it only runs on the iPhone. A silly statement, to review the OS separate from the device. Together they are the best mobile platform out there, period. Windows Mobile might be more portable currently, but that doesn’t make it better.
I never understand these people that get so worked up about these things like ZuneTag, what are you a shareholder or something. If you dont like it dont buy it. Imagine somebody getting this worked up over a DVD player, pick-up truck or lawn mower. Buy what you like and save the tirades for the psychiatrist’s office.
In any case these are the facts
Q1 2008 Smartphone Marketshare:
Palm: 13.4%
Apple: 19.2%
RIM: 44.5%
Other (includes Windows Mobile, Symbian, etc): 22.9%
iPhone is great for those who need it!
Go for it. But price wise take a look at this.
$30 one time payment for a phone and less than $20 a month for minutes if you use them and as you use them.
Use your laptop for nearly everything the iPhone does and more.
No monthly payments, no destroyed credit if you miss a payment.
Wouldn’t a iPhone of this nature be prefect for nearly everyone?
1: A cheap flip iPhone
2: Present version
3: Deluxe version with larger screen, computer functions and more storage/memory/performance.
4: All on pay as you use minutes, from iTunes. Charge it up and go!
DREAM ON!! Apple could rule the mobile market with this approach.
PS had lunch with a Microsoft employee today, asked how they liked Monkey Boy being in charge…that nickname was news to them. Apparently Ballmer has always been a sweaty hyperboy, we just didn’t get to see it until they made him ringleader of the circus.
General Motors (GM) is Editors Choice for the best cars in the world. They make the most cars, therefore, they have the best cars.
Finally someone with the guts to tell the a bold face lie. Thank you Sascha for courageously showing everyone that fear is running high and the cover from the storm is quickly being ripped away. All of those glowing reviews of Windows Mobile from illiterate astroturfers were making me sick. Truth is the puny market share Windows Mobile is about to be trounced by mighty iPhone and its revoluntionary app. store. On phones with real flexibilty in GUI minus the little plastic buttons that break and now the iPhone works in the enterprise-BEWARE RIM. Suck it, PC dorks, nobody is interested in your iPhone wannabe phones. Anybody can wait in line trying to find software for a Windows Mobile. Is anyone actually buying these pieces of crap?
Your potential. Our Blunder.™
writen on my new iPhone. Awesome
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