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Squilliam on 15 February 2010
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Grimes said:
Squilliam said:

They can afford to wait. They can soak in the positive feedback from Windows 7 and that alone will get this product off to a good start, assuming it doesn't suck that is.

I don't think so. Developers are making apps now. They aren't going to wait. Apple will have an install base of over 70 million. Google will have an install base in the tens of millions. Apple and Google aren't going to be standing still either. While MS is still working out the first generation bugs, Google and Apple with be on their third and fourth generations. Apple and Google are SERIOUS competitors. You have to be a lot better, not just slightly better to beat them. I just don't see this as being a lot better.

This is a well known phenomenom. I know all of this. Windows Mobile 8 is probably already being developed, just as the Apple and Google next generation apps are as well. The thing is, Google is stretched pretty thin between their different endeavours so you can't expect something out of left field in 6 months from them and Apple now has the problem that they are stuck with a large incumbant userbase and therefore cannot adjust the course as quickly as a completely blank sheet design that Windows Mobile 7 effectively is, the same problem that Microsoft had with Windows Mobile 2-6.



Tease.