Comments on: Microsoft's Mobile Strategy: Irrelevance

By: Windows 7 tricks

Windows 7 tricks — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:01:46 +0000

You guys seem to only recognize visual innovations, however, there are innovations happening in many levels.

By: jmaz

jmaz — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:31:05 +0000

While it is time to rejoice for those young market analysts and anti-anything Microsoft bloggers from sites such as engadget.com, gizmodo.com, and mobilitytoday.com, it is a mistake to count Microsoft out. These bloggers are doing all they can to make sure that Windows Mobile dies. They are as openly bias as can be and as outrageous as possible with their claims. They scoff at and find great joy in this kind of reviews about WM. The level of anti-WM hysteria that they have whipped up is quite palpable. But, they are as oblivious to the type of corporate entity that Microsoft is as had been those that came before them with the same death wish for Microsoft and its wares.
First, Microsoft is not a trend or cute style setting company like Apple. Second, it is not a speculative company as is Google. It is a company that has made its name by following trends and making it possible for people to compute. That is what they excel at, following tech trends. They had to quickly turn their corporate vehicle around to follow the trends and technological changes that came with the GUI, the changes that came with the Multimedia PC, the changes that came with the Internet, the changes that came with a host of other new technological ideas. And now, here we are again they have been caught with their pants down. While Ballmer has concentrated on filling the deep pockets of Microsoft shareholders and investors, change has hit them on the face again with the new mobile wireless revolution. Microsoft is a reactive corporate entity. They don’t learn from their mistakes. They use their resources to correct their mistakes while they take place.
In the minds of these young, idealist anti-softies there is coming a world that will only be inhabited by handsets porting the Google Android portable OS. They forget that there are other players. They forget that when over ninety percent of the people around the world stare at their computer screens to do any computing what they see is Microsoft. Handset makers know and realize this.
I guess that to these idealist anti-softies it is out of the question that Microsoft won’t see anew and mine this connection while submitting to the new tech trends. They reason that since Apple took from Open Source, bragged about the power of what they took, claimed that it was theirs and gave nothing back to Open Source that handset makers will follow the same formula. The Android dance will eventually simmer down and that is why handset makers such as HTC, Samsung, and LG are not ready to pull the cord yet on WM. They know that cheer leading for one side or the other or unrestrained hysteria does not a solid, lasting market build. They stand pat until they hear the fat lady sing or croak.

By: How HTC Became a Smartphone Hero – GigaOM

How HTC Became a Smartphone Hero – GigaOM — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:36:45 +0000

[...] Wisely, it plans to ramp up its Android efforts and focus less on Windows Mobile, which is becoming less relevant by the day even as the smartphone space heats up. Lesson: Bet on deep-pocketed winners less hampered by their [...]

By: Can A Former Microsoft Exec Help Save GM?

Can A Former Microsoft Exec Help Save GM? — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:09:09 +0000

[...] Ultimately, Liddell may be most effective at GM if he can help the automaker surmount the challenges with which Microsoft is still struggling. The two firms are behemoths trying to adapt to increasingly competitive and fast-paced industries, as well as changing consumer interests. Apple’s Mac OS threatens Microsoft’s core operating system business and longtime hold on 90 percent of the market. And after giving its web and mobile efforts a back seat to the PC platform, Microsoft has trailed innovative and competitive breakthroughs from companies like Google and Apple. [...]

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マイクロソフトの CM はお門違い « maclalala:link — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:33:11 +0000

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By: Microsoft Mobile’s Worst Week Ever

Microsoft Mobile’s Worst Week Ever — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:43:24 +0000

[...] we are concerned, we have been consistent in our opinion that Android (and not iPhone) is going to basically eat into Windows Mobile’s market share and make it irrelevant. Of course, Microsoft fans think [...]

By: è arrivato il Windows-Phone | hack & Tips

è arrivato il Windows-Phone | hack & Tips — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:21:35 +0000

[...] triangolazione delle celle telefoniche). Secondo gli analisti – e tra questi lo stimatissimo Om Malik – addirittura WM 6.5 è una perdita di tempo e di mercato, anche perché le vere novità tecniche [...]

By: Arrivano i Windows Phone « Paoblog’s Weblog

Arrivano i Windows Phone « Paoblog’s Weblog — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:51:16 +0000

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By: Two Windows Mobile versions: Yay or Nay? | GottaBeMobile.com

Two Windows Mobile versions: Yay or Nay? | GottaBeMobile.com — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:14:58 +0000

[...] has ranged from various levels of condemnation to pragmatism and support. I’m siding with the pragmatists on this. As Matt [...]

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Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:38:22 +0000

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By: Cheese

Cheese — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:57:56 +0000

Wow, only a few days after Gigaom splashes mud at microsoft (apologies for the understatement), here comes some real news. From engadget of all despicable places.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/microsoft-delivers-oneapp-app-framework-for-featurephones/

Makes me think if Gigaom’s blog-world domination strategy is: Jump to conclusions …or is it “beat microsoft” ?

By: Hello. I’m a Windows Phone | artificial ignorance

Hello. I’m a Windows Phone | artificial ignorance — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:01:46 +0000

[...] Blackberry and Nokia have strong footholds with their loyal audiences and Palm is resurging. Om is writing us off because of discussions he’s had with a manufacturer. But Microsoft is not one to sit back and [...]

By: trent

trent — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:36:22 +0000

Absolutely not, Pink is supposed to be an end to end solution and not just back end. Different experience, marketing, business model etc from WinMo. MS is spending a lot on project pink. $500M spent just on Danger and they have a whole group that is working on it.

By: HeardItAllBefore

HeardItAllBefore — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:04:15 +0000

“By Q4 2010, web apps are likely to be the predominant way to develop functionality for smartphones”

Not so much. You know this strategy didn’t exactly work for the original iPhone. It’s not like developers were wild about only being able to build web apps before the SDK was released. Now look at the success of the App Store.

“especially when HTML5, BONDI, etc. are widely supported”

Yeah. That’s not going to be by Q4 2010 though, is it?

“This will make the underlying OS virtually irrelevant”

Nonsense. Have you actually been paying any attention to what’s been happening in the mobile space the last three years? It’s all about the OS, baby.

By: Marketcircle Blog » Congrats RIM, but the iPhone is the more potent weapon in the smartphone wars

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:51:48 +0000

[...] you play catch up, you flail. Look no further than RIM’s Storm and if recent rumors are true, Microsoft’s dual mobile OS strategy. You are trying to follow a fast moving speed boat (and compared to others, Apple is moving fast). [...]

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