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Originally Posted by caywen
WinMo developers are still jumping ship to iPhone and Android in droves. I see this happening for 2 reasons:
- Developing an app that runs on most WinMo devices is Hell. Supporting how many different screen resolutions, supporting both touch and non-touch, D-pad, trackball/pad, and huge variance in CPU/Memory speeds all equate to an immense amount of extra work for many developers.
- Win32 on WinMo is ass. .NET on WinMo just isn't functional enough, yet. The tools are OK but the emulator is incredibly slow compared to the iPhone and Android simulators.
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Why is everyone bugging M$ for yet another WM? What must an OS basicly do? Let 3rd party apps run as good as possible. In that respect WM6 is good enough (I'd prefer it to be a bit faster but I'm not waiting for "better look" or more features). The rest is upto the App-developpers. THEY must create the killer-app, the OS is only the base. In fact I couldn't care less which OS my smartphone runs, as long as it does what I want.
In my own case I like it to have a choice of navigation software on my smartphone since I use it regularly for that purpose. It doesn't matter which OS runs beneath it or at least I don't care about it. As long as I find that particular program that I like. In this case the APP is important NOT the OS beneath it. The same is true for browsing, email or playing music. If iTunes was ported to WM6 then it wouldn't matter whether you'd use an iphone or a WM-player.
Also what's with these developpers these days? If it isn't easy enough then THEY consider the OS not good. For instance most o/t the OS takes care of the resolution, cpu or UI. If you're program properly writ ten then it shouldn't matter if you use VGA or WVGA or QVGA or whatever. In fact WinMo isn't optimised at all for the current crop of ARM-cpu's to provide the most marketpenetration. And why would care about "memory speed"... doh?! The API for touch and non-touch is provided by M$ so what's up? Too lazy perhaps? You can't read the provided documentation? Can you read at all?
From an end-user perspective I'm glad that M$ tones itself a bit down with regards to OS-releases. This way the platform can mature, the bugs could get ironed out. That some Apps stink, that's not M$ fault.
The only reason why iPhone get this (initial) success is because it's an overhyped product. By the time the end-users experience the disadvantages of iPhone they will revert back to their blackberry/Nokia/WM-phone.
There's only one point of concern for me. M$ must make work to get more performance out of the OS. I toyed with an android-phone a while back and found it a bit less sluggish than WM. The same is true for iPhone (iPhone GS feels really snappy compared to anything else).
So for me. I don't want WM7 if it's slower then WM6. I want WM6.1 turbo-edition :-)
Just my ramblings
Cheers
EPDM