Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Reaching for Apple, Falling Short
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Frankly, Windows Mobile 6 is a mess. Common features require an infinitude of
>| taps and clicks, and the ones you need most are buried in menus. Apparently
>| the Windows Mobile 6 team learned absolutely nothing from Windows Mobile 1,
>| 2, 3, 4 and 5.
> `----
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/technology/personaltech/08pogue.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
>
> That's why Microsoft still has a market share of 4-6% while Linux is far beyond
> and growing extremely fast. Mobile devices are the future (and along with
> them -- GNU/Linux).
>
Microsoft have no actual track record of innovation - they do not know
how to do it. There is nothing that they can acquire to help them here,
since symbian is untouchable, linux is public, and apple own OSX.
The Microsoft model offers no way forward for them.
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