Mobile competition is heating up. Today Microsoft unveiled their updated Windows Mobile 6.5. The design completely revises the main interface of the platform, which now features a “honeycomb” home screen design, and zune-like menus.
Microsoft also revealed their “Skymarket” – their own version of the App Store. The OS update also includes both Flash and Silverlight plugins and an updated version of IE, that now functions as a much better HTML based web browser.
All this serves to stiffen the mobile competition, for Apple.
I really don’t think it does anything to Apple. Coming from a Windows Mobile OS before the iPhone, I was continually frustrated with the fact that third party apps would not work with my phone because I did not have the right hardware. IMHO, Windows Mobile OS is on too many phones with too many different hardware configs to make an AppStore a viable option.
Heck, the issues I had with ringtones alone was enough for me to chuck the old phone at the wall numerous times.
Great CNet article: https://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10165067-27.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5