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RE: Well
By bety on 12/11/2010 1:10:11 AM , Rating: 1 is COMPLETELY fair to compare two CURRENTLY competing don't get a pass because you started late!! That's ridiculous!! It's not OK to release tech years behind and justify it by claiming you just started!! You have to be an incredibly MS fanatic to accept that.

As to the "whining"...which is really completely legitimate criticism of a product, lacking in key features which it's competitors have (completely unacceptable if you are hoping to break into a market with strong established players), sure, it will stop complaints about those two missing features. It doesn't make the current criticism any less valid. It was still an embarrassing and completely laughable omission on MS's part. Personally, I was more shocked by the lack of of the key reasons I moved to a smart phone. I just can't believe that flaw!

RE: Well
By inighthawki on 12/11/2010 1:57:36 AM , Rating: 4
quote: don't get a pass because you started late!!

Of course you do, how is this not an important factor? Sure it is not going to help MS by releasing a product with an inferior feature set, and if those features are necessary, don't choose the phone! But how can you for a single moment BLAME that lack of features on starting the project YEARS after Apple? It's not like they intentionally gave Apple a head start then failed, they just started development much later, at which point what is really important to compare is not what features exist at any specific time, but what features you need and when other features are coming. and the fact that MS is rolling out updates pretty damn quickly to correct problems from release (months compared to Apple's years) I don;t think we can really blame them for anything.

And take it from someone who really dislikes Apple, but if they released their own version of something like .NET soon, I would certainly not expect it to be on par with Microsoft's .NET platform, and how could it be when MS has been working on it for over ten years now?


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