Posts by EdPearce55

Google ditches the bits in the bottom of the box

Re: Personalisation of mobe devices doesn't make iGoogle irrelevant on the desktop

Windows 8 tiles, my friend.

LG: We're not walking away from Windows Phone

Re: Wow.

The worst thing is the tribalism. People are actually judging each other - and themselves - based on the phone they use. Or the OS on the phone they use.

I'm beginning to worry about the human race.

Windows Phone 7 'not fit for big biz ... unlike Android, iOS'

"If you want shiny you'll get an iPhone" - not necessarily.

"if you want cheap you'll get an Android" - not necessarily.

"if you have valuable data or work for the Gov, you'll stick with Blackberry" - you're in the wrong decade 0laf.

Here's what I dislike about arguments like these:

1 The refusal to allow a new product to mature. WP7 is new - of course the app store is small, the customer base is small and the OS isn't feature-perfect. MS is going through a transition with its OSes (and must fight hard to maintain customer and developer bases while doing so), and no-one should expect MS to be #1 in the market while that's happening. But there are so many commentards who trash MS for not putting out a brand new phone OS that seriously threatens e.g. ICS or iOS overnight. Can't be done people. Not in the short-term. But MS will play the long game and have no intention of seriously challenging Apple today.

2 The assumption that the market is now fixed / static. You read so many posts on forums like these implying that the market is basically decided - Apple at the top-end, Android mid-to-low, BB / MS / others taking a small share. Markets aren't fixed! Apple will not be at the top for ever. Android will not be the teenagers first choice for ever. Do people really think (some do) that MS might as well give up in the mobile OS space, because Apple and Google have it all sewn up? Long live competition. Without WP7, BB et al. there's a danger of quasi-monopolies and they are never good.

(I use iPhone 4 and Lumia 800)