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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 22 February 2009 02:48 : \____
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/02/18/microsoft-htc-has-made-80-of-all-windows-mobile-phones/
>
> While playing up the fact that 50 phone makers around the world have
> licensed the company's Windows Mobile platform, Microsoft
> inadvertently let it slip out that a full 80% of all Windows Mobile
> phones ever made have actually come from a single maker: HTC.
>
> . . .
>
> Even more strikingly, HTC itself joined Google's Open Hardware
> Alliance as a founding member in 2007 to promote Android, which serves as
> a free and customizable drop-in replacement for Windows Mobile. It then
> released the first Android-based phone last fall, the T-Mobile G1. If HTC
> were happy with Windows Mobile, endorsing and promoting Android is a
> strange way to express that.
>
> . . .
>
> Microsoft also announced SkyMarket, its answer to the iPhone App Store,
> and My Phone, its alternative to Mobile Me cloud sync and push messaging.
> The company also presented plans to spark the moribund Windows Mobile
> business by rechristening its handsets as "Windows Phones" and
> forcing all licensees to add a Windows Start button to their devices,
> just as it did on the PC in 1995.
>
> . . .
>
> The core of Microsoft's new strategy, as Lees explained: "We
> moved our organization from being focused on business, and now it's
> more focused on the consumer." Further, in what might come as a
> shock to the company's licensees, and particularly HTC, Lees said
> 'The focus has been on the device and now it's shifting to the
> software on the device.' And how it will achieve this: "Every
> phone will have a [physical] button to get to the start menu. People will
> know they want a Windows Phone for both business and consumer
> services."
>
> Oh. My. God. A physical "Start" button. What a user-interface innovation!
> To jump-start "Windows Phones" sales.
>
> I hope they also have a physical Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
http://www.metronetiq.com/archives/ctrl-alt-del/ctrlaltdel.jpg
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