Poll : What OS is Windows Mobile’s Biggest Enemy?
Posted by Chris Leckness on 10/13/08 in Mobilitysite Polls
Well, the easy answer is all of them. With all the new innovation going on in the mobile industry, Windows Mobile is seeing some big competition in all segments of mobility. Apple is pushing the consumer market hard, RIM is pushing enterprise as they always have, and Android is coming down the trail looking pretty nice. We all know and agree that Windows Mobile needs some new life. It needs to work on a better way to implement updates. It needs some GUI upgrades, but the phone manufacturers are doing a good job on that.
So, out of the major operating systems powering the hottest phones today, which one is the biggest threat for Windows Mobile. Which one could fire a deadly shot into the Windows Mobile Camp?
Loading …I know that I have been quite impressed with the iPhone, the Android OS is pretty fast running, but I absolutely despise the Blackberry experience. You thought WinMo had a lot of menus.
I realize that Windows Mobile is going to be ok, I am pulling for them. I also love that these new, fancy operating systems seem to have lit a fire under Microsoft’s tails.
Out of all the new phones that are “not” powered by Windows Mobile, I like the G1 and the iPhone equally. The iPhone gets a point for getting Exchange Server support, something the G1 can’t do right now. The G1 gets the edge on the keyboard, the iPhone onscreen keyboard isn’t bad, but I prefer a full qwerty “keyboard”. Of course, it goes without saying that I don’t like the G1’s looks overall.
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Windows OS is Windows worst enemy, if it could just get out of it’s own way, nothing could compete. The problem is though, in order to make it usable for the computer illiterate masses, every thing has to be dumbed down.
The question is wrong. It should be:
What OS is Symbian’s Biggest Enemy?
The answer (to the correct question) is probably Symbian, as the answer to the wrong question is Windows Mobile…
Symbian and WM are the two OS’es with most in common. Symbian goes open source next summer, who knows what WM will do next summer. RIM and Palm are both utterly outdated, they are futureless. iPhone OS is a closed cult. Android is spyware on steroids.
I don’t think anything of this matters. As long as Nokia exists, there will be Symbian. As long as HTC exists, there will be WM. iPhone OS? who cares, Symbian and WM in particular have catched up with the fancyness of iPhone OS by now, and will steam ahead leaving iPhone in the shadows. Android is strange. It is made for the masses, but needs top of the line hardware to work, this is not a good combination for anything but a niche. The question is what will Samsung and LG do? The answer is probably all of this (WM, Symbian and Android).
I wouldn’t ask about “enemies”, because Microsoft hates Google, so Android would be the obvious answer there.
If you ask what the biggest competition is, though, I’d say Android or RIM. Android because it’s free and open, RIM because it has the infrastructure and a lot of users.
Palm is pretty much dead, despite the success of the Centro, unless their new OS comes out quickly and totally rocks.
Apple is cool, but probably too limited because of the one company philosophy. (Yes, RIM has that problem, too, but they entered the market long enough back to get marketshare and infrastructure.)
Symbian is in the lead worldwide, but not doing very well in the U.S. Plus, as they’re already in the lead, they don’t have to play catch up.
Steve
so, lots of good answers already…. let me add this thought: winmo’s biggest enemy is that it lives inside a very large microsoft portfolio that microsoft sees it as just another business line, rather than the the opportunity to be something revolutionary.
to the larger microsoft business, as long as there is increasing winmo year over year shipped unit growth there isn’t really much of a problem, and no feeling of urgency to address little things like the interface and such.
microsoft is actually quite lucky that they started the winmo platform so many years ago, as this has given the company such a headstart that it will take android and apple a year or so still to catch up.
we don’t raelly know if microsoft has gotten the wake-up call. perhaps ms is beavering away with a renewed sence of urgency unsterstanding it needs to reinvigorate its development innovation.
or perhaps not. :-)
Microsoft is Windows Mobile’s biggest enemy. They are making the same mistake that Palm made - they are either stupidly not recognizing that they are about to lose a lot of market share fast, or they simply do not see the market as all that important to them.
The fact that they are waiting a full year until another update is and indication of one or the other, or perhaps both - incompetence and/or indifference.
Here is a key difference between iPhone and WinMo - my wife, who is not all that technical, needs to be reminded how to use my WM phone to do anything - even make a phone call! (On her standard phone she is used to opening her contact list and making a selection from there - she looks at my keyboard and sees a computer keyboard without seeing the embedded phone keypad, and cannot figure out how to bring up a list of contacts, which is trivial with her Razr.) She picks up an iphone and can use it immediately.
Microsoft should be very scared of everybody on that list. Well, of RIM, iPhone and Android for sure, Symbian everywhere but in the US for some odd reason. Palm is worse than Microsoft.