“Despite racking up a big list of top-tier phone set manufacturers in its Android Open Handset Alliance, Google’s mobile operating system was nearly non-existant among OHA members’ announcements at the GSMA Mobile World Congress,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for RoughlyDrafted. “Is Microsoft to blame?”
“Android is clearly a threat to Microsoft’s plans for Windows Mobile,” Dilger writes. “After all, how does one sell an aging mobile operating system lacking the multitouch sizzle of the iPhone and the addictive messaging savvy of the BlackBerry in a world where Google is butting in with a free, open source alternative that allows manufactures to freely customize it as they like?”
Dilger writes, “Nobody expects Microsoft to encourage hardware makers to use Google’s Android over its own Windows Mobile. However, one might expect that OHA members who are already committed to Android would actually express some support for the operating system more than a year after joining the group.”
“The only thing Windows Mobile is good for is distracting IT shops already tied to Windows from discovering a functional mobile web platform that could be saving them time and money,” Dilger writes. “That’s not going to keep Microsoft alive in the consumer market, where users expect things to work, not just give a flashy demo or keep them busy browsing through TechNet. And that’s why Microsoft’s mobile efforts are dying in a far more lethal sense than its temporary blows to keep Android out of the spotlight.”
There’s much, much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Chuckles the Microsoft CEO” for the heads up.]
