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Originally Posted by SteveHoward999
Guess you missed my point. Windows Mobile has been here for years. most folk have never heard of it. Most folk have no idea what can be done with a Windows Mobile Device. Most have no idea what features and functionality they are missing if they buy an iPhone.
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Indeed. In the context of your response to dommasters, your point appeared to be to dismiss the iPhone as something that does what previous devices have been doing for years, but with better marketing. The iPhone is certainly more than that (this is the first product with a capacitance-based, multi-touch interface and arguably the first smartphone with both an effective interface and decent multimedia options).
As I wrote before, the iPhone is missing a lot of features, but it handles most key consumer needs. And the point is that what it does, it does very well. Most users will give up their (crappy) cell-phone video in exchange for an interface and web browser that aren't frustrating.
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Originally Posted by SteveHoward999
But **everyone** knows what an iPhone does.
So why is Microsoft so ashamed of WM?
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Had Microsoft announced the iPhone with an equally jaw-dropping interface, it would also get a lot of hype. Possibly not quite as much as Apple's iPhone because Apple is "hip" (though Xbox 360 has been a boon for Microsoft here), but it would still be huge.
Case in point, Microsoft's Surface got a lot of mainstream press and attention because it's a very slick product. Despite it not being announced as a consumer level product (and despite it being similar to a
demo shown last year), there was a lot of hype. If the average user could get a Surface computer, it'd be the next big thing, even without having the benefit of Steve Jobs' reality distortion field :mrgreen:
As far as WM goes, Microsoft doesn't make the hardware themselves and they don't advertise the same way Apple does. And let's be honest... WM isn't a stellar product. It's feature-rich, but plagued by a mediocre interface and many frustrating problems that Microsoft has not addressed.
On the plus side, if the iPhone does well, maybe it'll prompt Microsoft to fix WM's issues. Anyway, this has gotten off topic.