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Well I think that MS should ask their OEM's to stop make lookalikes and start making WM devices.
The first devices, up untill WM2003 was 2:3 form factor screens with 4 hardware buttons and a 5 way navigation button underneath, and maybe a 5th button on the side for recordings or what ever. Then came the Blackberry wannabe era, where all new WM machines needed to have square screens and a small QWERTY keyboard underneath, and today they all have to be Iphone wannabe lookalikes.
The added hardware keyboards are not the issue for programers, but the many layouts of hardware buttons and lack of them, plus non programable ones is a big issue, as is the many form factors of the screens (QVGA, WQVGA, VGA, WVGA, Square, Rectangular........) and different graphics accelerators.
Let's figure out what a WM PDA should look like, and stick to it, you can still make lots of variations to the design, even if there is only one type of screen (please let it be VGA) and one button layout (the old one please, maybe with the Record button replaced by a scroll wheel). But that would leave the Smartphones out and require going back to two versions of WM, and we can't do that now, can we :?
On the other hand, we could ask: Is there a problem for WM, or is it Apple who are walking the Plam line now?
Palm designed both hard and software, and decided what went where, making the Palm Pilots work so flawless, which was why they had that edge over WM for a long time (4 years is a looong time in hight tech business), isn't that exactly what Apple is doing now? We decides what is good for you, and what you need, if you want to have a say about it, go somewhere else????
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