Saturday, January 29, 2011

Is Windows Phone 7 Revolutionary or a Bust?, Page 2 of 2 - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com

Is Windows Phone 7 Revolutionary or a Bust?, Page 2 of 2 - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com

Here's how not to write an article. This guy owns an iPhone, raves about it's apps and yet claims to know jack about a new OS let alone have incite into it's future. Here's a clue I'm a non-android, non-iPhone user who has a need for a smart phone (btw I am waiting for a Verizon version, contrary to you guesstimate). And by the way I have used WM 5/6.5 and despite the awful user interface loved developing apps because it leveraged one of the most popular, and not the only, development framework in the world. In fact that same code was easily ported to Windows Phone 7 ( or WP7 since the name doesn't roll off the tongue). End rant.

Seriously, we know WP7 doesn't have cut and paste, it was mentioned well before your article. Soon, sometime in February, an update will come to offer the missing feature. In case you can't count, HR guy, in less time then it was implemented on iOS. I guess that means bust rather than, faster implementation...

Friday, January 28, 2011

Windows Phone 7 Momentum Begins to Slow - Mobiledia

See the following:

Windows Phone 7 Momentum Begins to Slow - Mobiledia


Clearly MS has a slow start, however, there are many of us waiting for phones to be made available on big red, Verizon. I suspect this will happens sometime after the first update goes live, which is due out next month, hopefully.

I believe many of these articles are jumping the gun on calling WP7 sales slow, waning, etc. And comparing them to Android and the iPhone is even more ridiculous due to there large head start.

I plan on waiting for a while before I even consider something different. As my development efforts are entirely non-professional, i.e. I don't get paid, I have no affinity to iPhone or Android but rather to .NET which means I can port my business logic to the desktop and web if I choose to do so.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Microsoft Pri0 | CES 2011: Verizon and Sprint will carry Windows Phone 7 by June 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper

Although this is great news I wish both Verizon and Sprint would actually try a little harder to bring a WP7 phone to their network. I have been waiting a while but I guess I can wait some more.


Microsoft Pri0 | CES 2011: Verizon and Sprint will carry Windows Phone 7 by June 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper