“There’s no kind way to say it: Windows Phone 7 will be a failure,” Galen Gruman writes for InfoWorld. “Announced to much bravado in February as the platform that would breathe life into Microsoft’s mobile ambitions, Windows Phone 7 looked based on very early previews as if it might bring something new and exciting to the table. Back then, I noted that I was impressed by what I saw — with the caveat ‘so far.'”
“No caveats now: Windows Phone 7 is a waste of time and money,” Gruman writes. “It’s a platform that no carrier, device maker, developer, or user should bother with.”
“Microsoft should kill it before it ships and admit that it’s out of the mobile game for good. It is supposed to ship around Christmas 2010, but anyone who gets one will prefer a lump of coal,” Gruman writes. “I really mean that.”
“In Microsoft’s in-depth demo this week at the Mobile Beat conference, there’s no mistaking the big pig behind the gloss,” Gruman writes. “Seeing the UI in action across several tasks, not just in a highly controlled presentation, shows how awkward and unsophisticated it is — I had the same feeling you get when you got a movie based on a great trailer, only to discover that all the good stuff was in the trailer and the rest of the movie was a mess. A pig, in fact.”
Gruman writes, “The bottom line is this: Windows Phone 7 is a pale imitation of the 2007-era iPhone. It’s as if Microsoft decided in summer 2007 to copy the iPhone and has shut its developers in a bunker ever since, so they don’t realize that several years have passed, that the iPhone has advanced… Microsoft is stuck in 2007, with a smartphone OS whose feature checklist might match that era’s iPhone but whose fit and finish would look like a Pinto next to a Maserati.”
Oh, there’s more, much more (three pages worth) in the full article – very highly recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Ballmer’s days are numbered. When the ax finally falls, in the spirit of one clueless sales guy buffoon for another, may they promote Kevin Turner to CEO.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dirty Pierre le Punk” for the heads up.]
Windows Phone 8 anyone?
It’s good to be an Apple shareholder.
“contented sigh”
Par for the course, but the majority do not yet understand the pit M$ has kept them in.
Does anyone expect a different result and product coming from Microsoft?
Yeah, I didn’t think so…
When Ballmer goes, and Gates will come back to try lead a Job-like comeback under a hero’s return.
Paul the Octopus has clearly gone against this article.
http://windowsphonesecrets.com/2010/07/16/dont-bother-with-this-blog-post-disaster/
So, next up: ” We are working hard on our new mobile platform: Windows Phone “7 wonders of the World”, coming fall of 2011″.
Remember everyone, before venturing to a site called “windowsphonesecrets”, Think Before You Click!
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Look at IT guy’s post above. Mafia$oft opened up their wallets REAL QUICK this time.
Gates ain’t coming back to run this company.
“[A]wkward and unsophisticated”? In other words, just like every other Microsoft product.
Wowzers. I just read the article and thought he spelled it all out very well, but you should read the comments by the Micro$oft fanboys. They are lacerating the poor guy for merely speaking the truth, albeit with somewhat of an attitude. He concludes by saying that Micro$oft should simply get out of the mobile business entirely. His article backs him up.
Troy Barkman likes Windows Phone 7.
“Awkward and unsophisticated”? Sounds great. People will love it. That kind of thinking is how Microsoft achieved a 90+% Windows marketshare…
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A great quote from the article:
“No chance of a come-from-behind victory this time
Microsoft has not only just made an imperfect copy of an old iPhone, it has not kept up with the current mobile OS crop nor moved ahead of any of them. I can’t tell you how much Windows Phone 7 feels like the early 1990s’ Windows 3.1, a clunky attempt to copy that era’s Apple System 7.”
I suspect this will be another Microsoft Death Throw, just in time for Christmas.
It seems kind of sick to stand by and applaud as someone goes into convulsions as they die. But with crapware like Windows Phone 7, it’s really applauding the death of something much less than human: The death of a parasite.
I look at Microsoft’s strategy and I like it — I like it a lot!
BSOD in your pocket.
Even if Gatesy did come back, he could not succeed. You cannot hold an industry like telecom’s feet to the fire like you can corporate IT and channel partners. Those days will forever remain in the 20th century and will finally die with the birth of app computing devices like the iPone and iPad.
Zune Tang? Zune Tang? Paging Zune Tang!
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This is a perfect way for all of you who keep telling us to just return our iP4 if we can’t get it to make and maintain phone calls to understand the stupidity of your remarks. There aren’t any alternatives to the iP4 that Steve Jobs presented to us at WWDC.
We were promised the ‘best ever’ iPhone by Steve Jobs and he then proceeded to sell us a piece of hardware that was crippled by poor design.
I don’t want any other kind of phone – I want the one Steve promised.
Surely with all those PhD scientists and engineers working in the $100 million lab, they could make a phone that would reliably send, receive, and make phone calls.
To quote Jobs, bullshit on his claim that antennas cannot be designed to work.
Another lie and he will prove it when he rolls out on the next stage proudly grasping (any way he wants) the revolutionary iP5 and announces a wondrous breakthrough in Apple engineering that has somehow magically figured out how to make a phone that works.
Translation: Steve learned an invaluable lesson with the iP4 fiasco – he learned to listen to his world class engineers.
“Predictiong” sez: “When Ballmer goes, and Gates will come back to try lead a Job-like comeback under a hero’s return.”
Actually, the telling details is that this week Bill Gates cleaned out his office and entirely LEFT Microsoft behind. He is now completely done with it. Over. Checked out. GONE.
I’ve run into this phenomenon before, on two occasions in fact. I call it ‘The Narcissist End Game‘.
Here’s how it works: The leader of an organization is so insipidly narcissistic and insecure that they can’t bear the thought of leaving behind a system that will soon forget him as it forges onward into the future. Therefore, the narcissist sets up the organization’s demise by putting an incompetent in line as his successor. The narcissist then departs and lets the gears turn. The end result is the catastrophic failure of his once wonderful organization, with everyone saying:
“Oh, how we pine for the days when [insert narcissist here] was running the place! Oh how we miss him! If only he could return and save the day! Oh Oh Oh!”
Get it? Sick stuff. And it is very real.
@Predicting
Don`t think that`l happen, Bill`s no genius but he was smart enough to pull the chute in a timely manner. He did`nt leave because he was bored or wanted to become some humanitarian hero, or ride a white pony into the sunset, he left because he saw the writing on the wall. Like a professional athlete retiring at the top of their game so as to not suffer the humiliation of the ride down. He threw Ballmy the keys, wished him all the best and washed his hands of the whole mess. He won`t be back.
“Windows Phone 7 should have been Microsoft’s “man on the moon” project, but now it’s clear that the Windows Phone 7 was Redmond’s equivalent of the bungled Hurricane Katrina response effort.”
That about wraps this up in a nutshell! ROTFLMFAO
“When Windows Phone 7 dies, will they ask who the next of Kin is? Kin 1 or Kin 2?” Dr Seus
Good article, this was especially funny:
“If the iPhone is the platinum standard, Android is the gold standard, WebOS is the bronze standard, and Symbian and BlackBerry tie for tin. Windows Phone 7 is clay — a clay pigeon, in fact.”
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