Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 too little, too late

Re:Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 too little, too late by DjDarkman on Monday October 25, 2010 @06:21AM (#1829230)

I found the UI unappealing and the heavy use of rotation effects amateurish.

Is this the best they can do? Draw rectangles...

Vertical list of applications??? Microsoft what have you been smoking?

And sorry but I just can't shake the feeling that the UI looks like some half-baked demo.

Microsoft should have just copied the iPhone and Android, they would have had a lot more success.

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Re:Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 too little, too late by karterk on Monday October 25, 2010 @06:23AM (#1829233)

If they had done that, I am sure you would have commented here saying it looks like a cheap imitation. Have you actually used the phone?

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Re:Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 too little, too late by bad_user on Monday October 25, 2010 @06:37AM (#1829253)

That's my problem with Microsoft software ... they get hyped months or years in advance with nobody actually using the damn product.

And when a product is hyped, you've got to expect a backslash when it doesn't support basic functionality people got accustomed to.

I also think that if third-party integration like Twitter will be less than what Facebook got ... WinMo 7 is basically screwed.

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Re:Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 too little, too late by steverb on Monday October 25, 2010 @07:19AM (#1829331)

My understanding is that any app can register itself for any of the hubs, so I don't see any technical reason why a twitter app can't go in the people hub.

No clue whose over-sight it is that the twitter app isn't already there.

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Re:Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 too little, too late by rbanffy on Monday October 25, 2010 @07:58AM (#1829414)

> they get hyped months or years in advance

Remember how cool was WinFS?

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Re:Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 too little, too late by DjDarkman on Monday October 25, 2010 @08:42AM (#1829532)

There are stuff that these OS-es got right, and there is no known better way. Not doing the same just for the sake of not being called a copycat is a stupid thing to do. The perfect counter argument for these is: "that's what people were used to"

This all only holds up if there is no known better way.

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Re:Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 too little, too late by netcan on Monday October 25, 2010 @08:46AM (#1829541)

Cheap imitation used to be an MS strength. A $200equivalent of the iphone V1 would be welcome.

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Re:Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 too little, too late by PanMan on Monday October 25, 2010 @09:19AM (#1829650)

I think it's actually quite cool that Microsoft invented a new UI, instead of copying iPhone/Android. I haven't played with it yet, so I haven't seen the result, but I like that they are trying to do something new, instead of copying others.

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