Comments on: Why I’m investing in Windows Phone and skipping Android

By: Ghislaine Gormally

Ghislaine Gormally — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:59:31 +0000

Good luck everybody! – I will come back again. Are you on facebook or twitter? Will like to follow you.
Thanks

By: Alex Leverington

Alex Leverington — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:02:34 +0000

Let’s not forget, Apple didn’t have an SDK to begin with. Developers pleaded for it. I’m sure we’ll find Android adapting as well.As far as phone hardware, I’ve found some phones are much better than others. This is a real drag for Google but, Anrdoid phones are still better than many of the alternatives.

By: Jocelyn

Jocelyn — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:54:17 +0000

Max,No matter if Windows phone is more developers friendly than Android, I think there are both good platforms with different business potentials.Actually, I appreciate your intro dealing with the fact that developers need to do the choice to develop on one platform and have to make money.The 2010 mobile development is not a “one platform development choice”. The cross platform development aspect is the most sexy thing for mobile developers.I work for a french company providing a tool for Flex developers, called ELIPS Studio, which allows to code your app in Flex and build into native code for different platforms like Iphone, Android, Windows Mobile or Symbian.Our beta users are happy with the possibility to maximize the ROI of their work in targeting 4 platforms, app stores with one development.The aim for a developer being to monetize as much as possible his work.

By: Craig Baker

Craig Baker — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:47:24 +0000

Max, I enjoy your posts, but I find you way of base with your comments on Android. It’s a great platform and the rate of improvement of the devices and OS is impressive.

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:59:27 +0000

Max,Wow, looks like you hit some nerves here…It has always been clear to me as a developer, that Microsoft wants to give me the best tools to help me succeed.

By: fastchicken

fastchicken — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:17:29 +0000

Anyone else notice Palm’s stock price drop off a cliff today? equivalent of apple dropping $50 in one day…. or google down by $125…Sorry, tried a Pre. Thought it was _awful_ UX.

By: iPadForums

iPadForums — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:59:36 +0000

Microsoft is only paying lip service right now because they are hungry. If the platform actually takes off, good luck getting to talk to the dev team, they’ll be too worried about the big fish to talk to the small fish.

By: Dan McGinn-Combs

Dan McGinn-Combs — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:20:38 +0000

Sheesh! What interesting tripe. As a long time user of Windows Mobile phones I bought a Palm Pre last August. The reason? It has a damned good, interesting, standards based development model and support for developers. And then I found out that WebOS was dynamite operating system. I only wish Android was as good.

By: Anders

Anders — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:16:46 +0000

What about Palm? They created a completely new take on things and have good developer support. Did you look at their platform?

By: charly

charly — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:42:32 +0000

Hey Max, you know you are wrong on some points here right? Goole is the most innovative Company out there, that been said, microsoft phones are not phones for the casual user, they are not phones peoples can brag with, they are phones, that the casual blackberry user use to buy, they are not cool and never are they going to be cool, it’s just a brand image, microsoft is not cool, microsoft is serious and they make stuff you have to buy , they make stuff you need for your work, so the casual user will associate the name microsoft with word, excel, windows, and the last thing it’d like to associate with his phone is Microsoft. iPhoen is cool, peoples associate iphones, and apple with coolness, I’m cool, I have an iphone….but, you better stick on Android, google innovation pace is unbeatable, they’re just too good….now, well, users surely don’t care if a software is open source, but they care about how their phones work, how it looks, how cool it is, and guess who cares about that too:….exactly, the phones manufacturers(sonyericsson, LG, samsung, Nokia…….etc), have you seen the new Sonyericsson android phone? trash your iphone! go pick it……now regarding the users, the market to conquer is the market of peoples using those phones today, average nokia, sonyericsson, etc… users, guess wich Brand they will stick with if they find out: hey, Nokia just has a phone that can do anything an iphone does, and I can use it as I want, and I was always loving my nokia till day….yup, you got it. The way to go: Android. If you want to make money with Windows mobile softwares, build some softwares and make them very very expensive, the target market of microsoft phones users has the money to buy it, but you won’t make a bunch load of money there, those guy don’t download 0,99 cents apps everyday, teenagers don’t use those phones, it’s just uncool, and believe me, they couldn’t care less about the innovations microsoft put in there, they indeed just want the phone to impress their friends as you said.Now back to Google, do you know why google is so smart regarding the phone market? They know they don’t know how to build phones, but they can build softwares, and with the many talents out there who can build softwares, they just have a free pool of developpers, who can change things as they want, and those who can build really nice phones will use the software to build their own phones, at the end of the day, you have a bunch of new manufacturers who just need to know how to design and build a phone, what brings google a lot of money too. Sure, the support is not “perfect” like microsoft support, but hey windows 7 mobile is not open source, so they better support you, Android is open source. As peoples say in my country , “You Can’t Have The Butter And The Money” , That’s Android.