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.
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.
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That’s the problem with Microsoft. Their products are all about superficial gloss, and people only buy their stuff because of all the marketing.
On the other hand Apple just makes good solid products that don’t get caught up in trying to be flashy. Their ads focus on how Apple products help people instead of being all design-y and clever.
The shoe is finally on the other foot : )
That’s the problem with Microsoft. Their products are all about superficial gloss, and people only buy their stuff because of all the marketing.
On the other hand Apple just makes good solid products that don’t get caught up in trying to be flashy. Their ads focus on how Apple products help people instead of being all design-y and clever.
The shoe is finally on the other foot : )
Now Epson finally has a competitor with today’s new indistinguishable WinPhone product line. Let’s see, the 5250, the P-275, the R-100,…___you fill in the blank with a number and a letter.
But still, some Americans are smart enough to be dumb enough to choose from the one of many to choose from…gonna give the Zune a huge run for its money in numbers sold.
Now Epson finally has a competitor with today’s new indistinguishable WinPhone product line. Let’s see, the 5250, the P-275, the R-100,…___you fill in the blank with a number and a letter.
But still, some Americans are smart enough to be dumb enough to choose from the one of many to choose from…gonna give the Zune a huge run for its money in numbers sold.
And come November 8 there will be exactly how many Windows 7 phone apps available to download?
And come November 8 there will be exactly how many Windows 7 phone apps available to download?
“An icon by any other name is still a icon.”
Widgets/Gadgets: completely different!
Spotlight/Searchlight: completely different!
Lol
“An icon by any other name is still a icon.”
Widgets/Gadgets: completely different!
Spotlight/Searchlight: completely different!
Lol
With all that video playing in the foreground/ background, the battery life will be poor at best.
With all that video playing in the foreground/ background, the battery life will be poor at best.
I think Microsoft is following the trajectory of IBM. Eventually they will get some creative person to come up with some really creative stuff, but it will be too little too late, and they won’t be able to overcome their stodgy public image. Or maybe they won’t have a public image, since their visibility is sinking.
The best thing Microsoft can do at this point is focus on their strengths in the enterprise, and shed the consumer market, for which they have no talent whatsoever.
Real competition for Apple will come, but not from Microsoft. It will come from companies that don’t exist yet. Eventually someone other than Apple will come up with good ideas, but we’ll have to wait a bit. Probably beyond my lifetime!
I think Microsoft is following the trajectory of IBM. Eventually they will get some creative person to come up with some really creative stuff, but it will be too little too late, and they won’t be able to overcome their stodgy public image. Or maybe they won’t have a public image, since their visibility is sinking.
The best thing Microsoft can do at this point is focus on their strengths in the enterprise, and shed the consumer market, for which they have no talent whatsoever.
Real competition for Apple will come, but not from Microsoft. It will come from companies that don’t exist yet. Eventually someone other than Apple will come up with good ideas, but we’ll have to wait a bit. Probably beyond my lifetime!
@DavidEGo
I know what a foreground is, and I know what a background is, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what a foregroundbackground would look like. I guess I’ll have to make sure I get to Best Buy between the introduction and the withdrawal of the Windows phones so I can see what a foregroundbackground looks like.
Imagine, if I get the flu that week, I won’t get to see them at all.
Interesting innovation, whatever it is.
@DavidEGo
I know what a foreground is, and I know what a background is, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what a foregroundbackground would look like. I guess I’ll have to make sure I get to Best Buy between the introduction and the withdrawal of the Windows phones so I can see what a foregroundbackground looks like.
Imagine, if I get the flu that week, I won’t get to see them at all.
Interesting innovation, whatever it is.
Those screens look like Fisher Price designed them.. I would never pull that out in a business meeting..
Those screens look like Fisher Price designed them.. I would never pull that out in a business meeting..
@harvey
Did you overlook the forward slash separating the two focal planes in David’s comment?
I thought you did. Don’t you feel dumb, smartass.
@harvey
Did you overlook the forward slash separating the two focal planes in David’s comment?
I thought you did. Don’t you feel dumb, smartass.
I’m gleefully waiting for the next mad race to the bottom with win mob manufactuers scrambling to cut the most corners to produce the cheapest phone on the block. Win mob users will soon be tripping the light plastastic just like in the good ol’ netbook days.
I’m gleefully waiting for the next mad race to the bottom with win mob manufactuers scrambling to cut the most corners to produce the cheapest phone on the block. Win mob users will soon be tripping the light plastastic just like in the good ol’ netbook days.
Is it me or is the screen too small… the titles seem to be get cropped?
Is it me or is the screen too small… the titles seem to be get cropped?