iPhone Development lure
There was some interesting post by Cristine Gonzalez over @ venturebeat.com. The first one goes by the title ” iPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developers “. They try to point out developers are missing out when they choose to ignore the other platform and concentrate on the iPhone.
Then the developers had their say as to why they choose iPhone development over Symbian, Windows Mobile and the other players. You can read some of the reactions over @ another post titled ” Mobile app developers fire back: Nokia sucks! ”
A lot rests with the new Marketplace for Windows Mobile, that will be shipped with WM6.5. I believe it will be a make or break turning point for the future of Windows Mobile. Apple has put a lot of work in to the iPhone and many of the drawbacks has been dealt with ( not yet but with the release of version 3.0 of their firmware ) but there are still some drawbacks like no background process, etc. As a user of both Windows Mobile and the iPhone, I feel that the iPhone is looking more and more attractive as the days goes by. What do you guys think ?
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iPhone = User friendly out of the box
WM = Enthusiast device
That’s how it always has been, and probably how it will remain. The only thing that could possibly change that is if MS gets it right with their new app store.
My big attraction to MW has always been; 1) vast library of familiar Windows programs/games ported over to a handheld, and 2) lots of opensource apps. When iPhone can offer me both of these, I’ll consider switching. But that seems unlikely with the coming launch of the WM app store, WM 6.5, and new CPU’s from Qualcomm, Marvell, Texas Instruments, and nVidia. So, hopefully things will get a lot better before the end of the year. If not, at least there are other options (platforms).