MacDailyNews Take: People have long tried to out-Apple Apple. It has yet to be accomplished.
Mortiz continues, “Instead of one brilliant thing — an application or some flash of originality — Microsoft rolled out a hodgepodge of features that seem oddly familiar to anyone who’s used an iPhone or an Android device.”
MacDailyNews Take: And the reason they seem familiar to Android settlers just might have something to do infringement upon Apple’s patented intellectual property.
Mortiz continues, “A short test drive of the HTC Surround, which lands at AT&T on Nov. 8, proved Windows 7 to be easy and pleasing. Windows 7’s identifying feature is its home screen, which has tiles instead of icons.”
MacDailyNews Take: An icon by any other name is still a icon.
Mortiz continues, “Microsoft earned style points for making an easy, attractive user interface. The quality of the transitions (animations) as you move between tasks makes you feel like they put some effort into it. Very smooth and very Apple-like, you might say. But among the elements missing to a spectacular launch of Windows 7 was a drop-dead, show stopper feature that will help convince Apple and Android fans that there’s a whole new game in town.”
MacDailyNews Take: It seems rather generous to describe people who’ve settled for Android devices because their carrier couldn’t offer them the real thing as “fans.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft could have unveiled the perfect smartphone OS, that doesn’t omit Cut-Copy-Paste or Multitasking or Tethering and that is wholly original and doesn’t infringe on other companies’ intellectual property, and they would still be nearly 4 years late to the game. It’s superfluous to the marketplace. They can try to force their way in with $500 million in marketing and, if successful, damage the other iPhone wannabes like Android, but, like all of the other also-rans, they have not even come close to equalling iOS much less accomplished the tremendous feat of leapfrogging iOS, which is what Microsoft needed to do in order to make up for being so woefully late to the game.
It doesn’t even have exchange active sync capability and reasonable security measures like device encryption, remote wipe capabilities, etc.
Business with eat the new Windows phone 07 phones up, NOT.
It doesn’t even have exchange active sync capability and reasonable security measures like device encryption, remote wipe capabilities, etc.
Business with eat the new Windows phone 07 phones up, NOT.
I like the updated UI compared to my boring IPhone4 UI which has barely changed since the original IPhone.
After another year of updates, I think Win Phone will be my next choice unless Apple decides to give it’s customers a more interesting UI than just icons.
I like the updated UI compared to my boring IPhone4 UI which has barely changed since the original IPhone.
After another year of updates, I think Win Phone will be my next choice unless Apple decides to give it’s customers a more interesting UI than just icons.
Scott Moritz, clueless as usual.
Scott Moritz, clueless as usual.
Apple hasn’t even succeeded in giving all their fans access to the phone unless they move to ATT. I like the iPhone interface and can’t wait for them to come to T-Mobile.
Apple hasn’t even succeeded in giving all their fans access to the phone unless they move to ATT. I like the iPhone interface and can’t wait for them to come to T-Mobile.
And it won’t succed in business because it doesnt have a keyboard.
And it won’t succed in business because it doesnt have a keyboard.
Microsoft’s attempts to do better in consumer electronics is about as interesting as when I fell asleep in 7th-grade Social Studies and woke up to find a little puddle of spittle on the desk.
Microsoft’s attempts to do better in consumer electronics is about as interesting as when I fell asleep in 7th-grade Social Studies and woke up to find a little puddle of spittle on the desk.
the winphomo interface is quite interesting: by having the tile metaphor swiping in two dimensions you are given the feeling of wandering around an endless bland corporate carpet. On the deserted floor of an office block in the business district of a failing city.
the winphomo interface is quite interesting: by having the tile metaphor swiping in two dimensions you are given the feeling of wandering around an endless bland corporate carpet. On the deserted floor of an office block in the business district of a failing city.
@Paul Thurrot
You’re the clueless one. You’ve forgotten how to spell your own name!
Microsoft would be better served using that five-hundred million to give away twenty-million phones with a two-year contract.
Get a free phone with every free phone!
Win Phone 7
WE GET YOU!
COMING and GOING!
@Paul Thurrot
You’re the clueless one. You’ve forgotten how to spell your own name!
Microsoft would be better served using that five-hundred million to give away twenty-million phones with a two-year contract.
Get a free phone with every free phone!
Win Phone 7
WE GET YOU!
COMING and GOING!
@RP3 – I think the default interface is great. Although the app badges are great indicators, Apple does need to do something cool with pop-up notifications.
@RP3 – I think the default interface is great. Although the app badges are great indicators, Apple does need to do something cool with pop-up notifications.
Yet another MS failure.
At this point, is anyone really surprised?
‘As long as it takes!’… *hic*
Yet another MS failure.
At this point, is anyone really surprised?
‘As long as it takes!’… *hic*
Microsoft has never come up with a “drop dead show stopper feature” in their entire existence. If it weren’t for Apple’s innovative examples, we would all still be typing endless lines of green code on a black screen and we would call it computing.
If an Apple-hating, ms toady like Moritz is disappointed with winmob7, it must truly be a catastrophe.
Microsoft has never come up with a “drop dead show stopper feature” in their entire existence. If it weren’t for Apple’s innovative examples, we would all still be typing endless lines of green code on a black screen and we would call it computing.
If an Apple-hating, ms toady like Moritz is disappointed with winmob7, it must truly be a catastrophe.
Yawn. I’ll huff and puff and blow your house down …
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Yawn. I’ll huff and puff and blow your house down …
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hey, WP 7 will wind up doing ok in the commodity smartphone market vs. Android. Android grew fast by killing the obsolete Windows Mobile 6.x and Symbian 2, not Apple or RIM. Now both are finally back in the game with updated OS’s. and once Nokia starts using WP 7 (Elop is certain to make a deal), it will sell well around the world too.
the smartphone market is breaking up into chunks, and no single OS will ever get more than 30% of it. there is no need to standardized OS’s like there was back in the 1990’s – the web/cloud solved all that a different way.