Microsoft PR outlaws iPhone talk A Microsoft manager created a bit of a fuss by advising a journalist not to mention the iPhone at a Microsoft event in Germany, betraying frayed nerves in the MS camp. The journalist was apparently guilty of expressing his opinion that no mobile phone was easier to use than an iPhone. We might disagree with that opinion*, but …
"one can imagine Microsoft is pretty bored of hearing comparisons to the iPhone by now"
Let's all be honest - most of us are bored with the constant iPhone comparisons now, even iPhone owners are bored with it. The main reason for this is because every media outlet, whether paid for by Apple or not, seem to squee at the mention of the iPhone, and make unnecessary comparisons.
Having said that, microsoft really shouldn't just be putting their fingers in their collective ears and shouting "LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA"... they could learn a couple of things from the likes of the iPhone and newer android ui's (like htc's and moto's blur).... just as many manufacturers have *learnt things from microsoft.
* I can see the jokes based on that statement but I'm being sincere here, please no fanboy remarks for or against either of them!! :)
"What will Microsoft cobble together to make itself appear busy while trying to finish Windows Mobile 7?"
"What's the latest in that line of mobile OSs that has lost 28% of its market share in the last year?"
"Name any product that suggests that monopolies make companies lazy"
"What do you think you'd get if you took all the good bits of the iPhone, WebOS, Android and Maemo and sort of made them rubbish?"
"Which is least deserving: rabies, Tuesdays, BBC3 or Windows Mobile 6.5?"
There is frustration in the lower ranks that every time MS come up with something "new", that it's that same old 3rd rate, poorly engineered crap that they are then told to go and sell as "Microsoft gets it right this time", when everyone knows this is almost certainly never going to happen.
They should probably stop trying to copy Apple - it's a fools game. Let Apple be Apple and go in another direction. Copying others says "I have nothing original to offer you so I thought I'd offer you a 3rd rate copy of someone else's idea".
From what I heard it was actually a Samsung manager - it was certainly a Microsoft / Samsung event so its worth checking. Still I suppose verifying that would get in the way of the lulz. WM6.5 is a pretty bad response to Android and the iPhone though, whoever you work for it must be hard work defending WM6.5 against competition like that.
I have never really used Apple products and not really a massive fan. I am however a techie and will only use the best tech I can find when I am looking to buy something. I was a WM phone user as the iPhone 2G and 3G were not up to scratch as a phone. They were great for anything else but with no MMS and the like made it fail as a phone.
As soon as 3.0 came out and the 3GS I switched over to the iPhone as it was the best phone out there and really does beat WM as an OS for a phone.
In a business sense this ignoring of your (and everyone else’s) main competition is suicide...how can you compete when you ignore competition.
My brother is getting quite senior in MSFT, and the further up he's gone, the more pressure he's had to eat the dogfood and use a WM phone. He will grudgingly use one now, but only since WM5. Before that he flat-out refused on the grounds the OS wasn't fit for purpose.
What does your imagination have to do with anything?
As for the topic at hand, Windows Mobile if effectively dead, MS should put it out of it's misery. They could start again, I suppose, but MS have proved so many times that they can't compete with anyone else, on a level playing field at least, they might as well not bother.
The Iphone? not the kind of thing I'd pay for, or stick in the back pocket on a hiking trip.....
And MS anything, if I could insert it in my rectum and shoot the moon, that is about as good as MS and it's perpetual crapware gets.
So while generally clueless about all of this, I will admit to loving to put shit on Microsoft for all the decades of BAD operating systems and software and all the ha$$les they have caused me.....
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