Comments on: Windows Phone 7 development principles revealed

By: @expectafight

@expectafight — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:25:50 +0000

arg, i think this is going to be the last time i post this thought until something definitive gets announced…DO NOT JUDGE THE OS YET, THERE ISN'T ENOUGH INFO. WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE GOING TO GET WITH THIS OS JUST YET. RUMORS, SHORT-SIDED OPINIONS AND HASTY THREATS TO JUMP TO NEW MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEMS ARE RIDICULOUSLY HOLLOW STATEMENTS RIGHT NOW. GRIEF!!

By: peterfares

peterfares — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:16:02 +0000

They aren't taking only the good things though. What this article says shows that. They are going to leave out a lot of features. It also seems like it is going to be closed down like the iPhone. I'm just happy that Android is mature enough for me. I'm really liking that HTC Desire headed to AT&T but I wish they would get one with a nice keyboard.

By: Craig S

Craig S — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:13:22 +0000

It still does a lot differently. It looks different from the iPhone to me. However, those like yourself who keep saying that people are buying Windows Mobile so they can hack it together, confuse me. First of all, fewer and fewer people are buying WinMo. If the target market was left to be tweaker geeks, the market share would drop to single digits.

By: TheAxMan

TheAxMan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:44:24 +0000

You guys might be missing the big picture here:

1) This is just the first release — and I'm sure MS has been scrambling to get it out of the door. They're probably saying that for the *first release* it's better to not have any half-baked APIs in there that create a support nightmare. Very similar to Apple taking 1 year to release an SDK, *after* releasing the iPhone.

2) The things WinMo classic does differently results in a totally dwindling market share and very little OEM and carrier support. Continuing down that path almost certainly means the end of Windows Mobile.

By: Seven mss

Seven mss — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:57:28 +0000

They are changing the group of people they make the OS for. Off course there are some sad people (many of them on pocketnow, wmpu and sites like this) that were one of the few that liked Windows Mobile as it was. But microsoft is trying to make EVERYBODY like the new OS. This will off course make them more money.

And everybody keeps saying they are following Apple and the iPhone. Can you blame them? Like it or not, the iPhone is a HUGE success. And it does have many good features, I have used and still do use them once in a while.

As long as they take all the GOOD things from each OS, they are going to have a winner. People are getting bored of the iPhone and if the fourth generation will not have any big changes, they might go to a WP7S device.

By: Jos Dewey

Jos Dewey — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:36:19 +0000

I love how the guy quoted threw in the word 'ecosystem' for good measure, typical idiot ass kissing to the Apple crowd in hopes they might switch camps.

By: @Jug6ernaut

@Jug6ernaut — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:45:39 +0000

i completely agree, wp7s at least in my book as of right now is an epic fail android here i come(so very sadly)

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:44:39 +0000

Whatever happens, I hope they don't put very hard security on it (like the Xbox 360). Unauthorized code on the 360 is just now taking off, and it is still limited to consoles that haven't updated in months and even then not all of them.
Basically, if they don't officially support letting you do what you want, I hope they at least don't make it impossible to "jailbreak."

By: ROhit

ROhit — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:11:59 +0000

I think that is what they meant. They will release the product and everything which will get released will be great. Other features will follow as updates.
I prefer this to half baked products.

By: jay

jay — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:11:21 +0000

Apple controls everything about their device. Microsoft says here is the OS run it on a phone with these hardware features, and it will run perfectly, because we have things in the os that will use this hardware. This isn't any different than the requirements you see on Windows 7.