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.
The point to take note of here is that Windows Mobile is HIS EDITOR’S CHOICE. Apparently he had a different view but was not allowed to express it in a PC magazine.
Poor, sad little “The Great Apple Fanboy Massacre”;
I was sipping drinks Wednesday with a pair of really nice Norwegians (who happened to have the latest HTC Diamond with them), and after 1/2 hour of side by side comparisons, BOTH decided to purchase iPhones.
Why?
It a nutshell, Windows Mobile.
The Diamond certainly is a pretty phone, but its performance is SO BAD that they felt embarrassed by it.
Anyways…
Keep trolling, it’s getting funnier by the day
I had one of those Windows Mobile devices.
It got to where it took 5 minutes. To boot my phone.
When the iPhone went public I bought one and never looked back, except occasionally at the stupid tax I paid on the stupid thing.
This is the bottom line: Microsoft is irrelevant.
It doesn’t matter whether you are an Apple or Microsoft lover or hater but for anyone to claim that Windows Mobile is superior to the iPhone is just plain delirious and in need of serious mental health care such as hospitalization. I’m completely serious.
Joe
As someone once said, “Stupidity has a nasty habit of getting its way.”
Looks like it is some of “good taste” to poor some FUD by tiny little doses here and there within articles… Well, that might slow down the switching… but only a little.
Well, PC Magazine HAS to say something negative about an Apple product, because their loyal readers (mostly Winduzh fans) have given them crap in the forums/comments for much praising of many Apple products.
So once in awhile, when they can get away with it, they have to do some Apple bashing or the bitchin’ just to prove to “The Windies” that they are still a PC magazine.
Yo, you people are so mao mao….
I mean PC mag people prefered OS X over vista, Firefox over IE but because they prefered Windows mobile over Iphone you are ready to line them up and stone them to death…
I am getting an iphone shortly but I am sorry to say you are all beyond human words. I would love (actually pay hard cash) to watch Jobs throw you a bone and see the show…WOUF anybody?