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By Aloonatic on 3/11/2011 3:21:39 AM , Rating: 2
I don't know what debate you think I'm having, but all I started off saying was that WP7 isn't MS's first go at a mobile OS.

1- Why do you say that I have a distaste of MS? Just because I dared to point out what I did? Read my other comments, learn, sit back down and... :o)

2- You seem to have missed the point that I was making, and seem to be unable to comprehend the difference between a grand mother and mother in law, which is a little worrying. What I am saying, and could have said more clearly, is that high level smart phones, which MS seem to be exclusively aiming at, are pretty close to maturity. I suppose they don't have a great deal of choice in this, being so ate to the game however.

The smart phone that my mother-in-law has, however, is a HTC wildfire. Much of the growth in the smart phone will market now be in this cheaper and less powerful device area, IMO. Just as not all mobile phones a few years ago were top of the range camera phones, an awful lot were cheap and cheerful efforts.

3- Not sure why you say that I am spraying everywhere? I've been pretty specific, and just replied to what others have said since You'll notice that I started off with a simple point, only for others to tack issues on. Also, I've not written anyone off. Seriously, why so touchy about any criticism or non fanboy like supporting comment of blind, unquestioning support?

I'm also curious about MS ever being seen as the under-dog in any market that they enter. They might be the new boys, perhaps, but I doubt that anyone sees them entering a market as a little company that might not stand a chance against the big companies out there that are larger than them, like.... Erm, yeah, Palm were much bigger than MS? They don't always succeed tho. Even though many people here love zune, I have never met anyone who has used one in the real world. MS might have made the greatest product in the world with the zune, but zune has hardly become synonymous mobile MP3 players.

So, just as it's foolish to write them off as catastrophic folly (which I never did, and I agree with you, it would be stupid to write them off) it's also catastrophic folly to assume that they will definitely be #1 in the market.

4- If you weren't accusing me, then why put that statement in a comment that was clearly aimed at me?

Finally, I'm glad that you can see that I am factually correct. And you might also notice that in my very first sentence in all this I said that it depends on your point of view about what a first iteration is. You (clearly an MS fan seeing as you seem to take any criticism so personally) might like to think that this is effectively a first effort by MS, and yes, they have restarted their efforts, but to judger them on the same level as other companies who have not been making mobile OSes for years and years as MS have done is not correct, IMHO.

Again, as I have said in other comments, I hope that WP7 is great. I wont rule it out when it comes to contract renewal time, by any means.

