“Stories of a top secret Windows Mobile phone being stolen have started making the rounds, suggesting that Microsoft is worried that its latest technology contained on the phone might be appropriated by its competitors, particularly Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for RoughlyDrafted.
Eran wonders, “Is it a case of incompetence, marketing, or inventive journalism?”
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MacDailyNews Take: All three. Incompetence on Microsoft’s part for being hopelessly outclassed by Apple’s original iPhone and for announcing, many months in advance, the release of a stopgap Windows Mobile 6.5, when even a Windows Mobile 7.0 released last year wouldn’t have helped delay the bloodbath that Apple has drawn for them. Marketing for either trumping up this supposedly “stolen” phone (as if somebody wanted it) or for using the move of the world’s stupidest cellphone thief to pretend that anybody cares about Windows Mobile 6.5. And inventive journalism because there are plenty of media outlets out there with hacks who claim to be journalists who are reporting this as it was intended by Microsoft’s ham-handed marketing shills instead of as the manufactured farce that it is.
