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Windows Mobile Threatens to Take Over The World
Though I don't have any hard numbers to back this up, my general feeling from talking to potential smartphone buyers is that Windows Mobile is going to flood this market and drown us. Here are a few brief reasons:
- M$ LOVES to bully, threaten, and undercut to force products into the marketplace through large providers (think the power they weild over Dell; if Dell even thinks about offering a Linux solution on their servers M$ could pull the rug out from under them). It should not be surprising, then, that so many mobile phones are appearing out of nowhere with Windows mobile, and that even the Treo phone is being released with Windows mobile BEFORE the new Palm version.
- Many people coming to smartphones may not already have a Palm and therefore have no opinion about what it can do. When they hear "Windows mobile" their first thought is: "Oh, I can use Outlook and IE", which is true. But more dangerous than that is that they may feel that this is their only choice which is devastating not just to Palm, but the consumer who blindly falls for this
Any good businesspeople out there that can give our friends at Palm a hand?
Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on July 14, 2006 2:38 PM