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Originally Posted by Jim Chapman
Yes I am a former user of ereader on WinMo - and one of my guiding principles for designing Freda was "I want to make something that has the least possible resemblance to ereader"  |
As guiding principles go, that's not bad.
I used to hate on WinMo a lot back when it was just them and Palm--and as it turns out, I wasn't wrong to. Although I don't regret my TP2 purchase one bit, I'm amazed this OS still kicking (although its demise is newly reported every month, it's still surprisingly strong in the marketplace). I'm doubly amazed that WinMo never "borrowed" any Palm simplicity. MS has never been above ripping off competitors who have good ideas. But I'm completely astounded that at the winmo6 version developers find the file explorer functionality so useless as to not bother with it. That could be a meaningful development advantage and it's exactly what you'd expect to have access to if you were familiar with XP/Vista/7.
Ballmer has promised to get WinMo back on track, but how the crap is it still in this condition? Imagine how dominant they could be if not for, apparently, decades of neglect. Imagine how much more screwed they'd be if Palm hadn't done their own far more thorough Garnet/Cobalt death spiral, and if HTC, spb etc weren't covering up their fugly.
And I'm a Windows Mobile fan. I wonder how their enemies talk about them.
