“Well, you didn’t see this coming, did you? Hotmail, which due to some feat of magic remains the world’s most popular webmail client, has exploded on Apple’s mobile products since the introduction of the latest firmware edition, iOS 5,” Alex Wilhelm reports for TNW.
“According to Microsoft, some 2 million Hotmail accounts have been linked to an iOS device since the 5th version was released, and some 100,000 are doing so daily,” Wilhelm reports. “Changes in iOS 5 made it much simpler to link a Hotmail account to an iOS gadget, and the response has been large thus far.”
Wilhelm opines, “But there is something vaugley dirty, you must feel, about Hotmail on an iPad. It’s a bit like bringing a 1999 Honda Accord to an open track day. It’s a bit out of place.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t pollute your iOS device(s).
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dan K.” and “krquet” for the heads up.]