Just got done talking about windows Mobile and iPhone with a friend and well, I'm pissed. I just realized that I banked on the wrong team for the last 5 or so years. In the Mobile phone arena, I started with and stuck with Windows Mobile for the Apps. At first there were some descent Mobile quicken apps for Windows mobile but the OS itself was buggy and sucked ass. And slowly but surely the windows mobile apps died out a slow and painful death as the OS never improved, then suddenly the iPhone comes on the scene. I didn't expect it to get the app support it got. It just plain took off like a bat outta hell and took advantage of Microsoft's incompetence and bumbling along with user's desire for these apps was far larger than anyone anticipated. I still don't get how the coders are able to make get Apps to work under Apple when article after article comes out about how they are so incredibly closed source they border on being belligerent ass holes about letting anyone from the outside getting anything to work on their stuff. This was always the excuse game companies used for not making games for Apple stuff. While Microsoft has this reputation for being open and working with the coders. Now Android is on the scene and the one thing everyone keeps harping on is the fact that Android is Open Source and that's going to increase app availability. Well, I said the same thing about Microsoft vs Apple with Windows Mobile and iPhone. Apple shouldn't even be able to compete with Microsoft at all because they're so closed source but that history is not really hindering them so this huge advantage that Android supposedly has is kind of in the air as a maybe the way I see it.
I don't think it's so cut and dry and to boot when it comes to the apps, and most of all iPhone is still the only device out there with Multi-Touch. The pinch and other little goodies you can do. the only devices that come close to apples touch interface are Microsoft touch surface devices that have been all over trade shows making big empty promises but have not delivered jack shit in the real world.
Finally the last part of the equation. iPhone's exclusive agreement with AT&T. Out here on the west coast AT&T has issues mostly with it's Data network, most of cnet.com reports all kinda of issues with AT&T, those guys know there shit and they're where I get most of my info on the iPhone from many of witch have given up their iPhone for an iPod Touch, which is basically an iPhone without a Data network and can hook up to a normal home network wirelessly. I'm on Verizon, and I'm more than happy with their data coverage.
Finally I have to say this, having a great network and a crappy windows mobile device (the Verizon xt6900) sucks. The damned phone can't handle the basics but I now have a new Lenovo laptop/tablet PC with a built in Verizon wireless card. So I canceled the Data on my phone and started that up. It feels like I have Mobile Device on steroids. I kinda do I've been using it to run CAD at our coordination meetings lately, I'm surprised as fuck it can run it AND do all my network troubleshooting and mobile goodies. I'm planning on replacing the phone with one of my old ruggedized phones. This is working out awesome for me, but I'm still jealous of the iPhone, it's one sexy lookin device that delivers what it promised (instead of 2 devices like I've got,) it still has better apps than Microsoft or Google's Phones (their app store dominates over all others), and superior hardware (iPhone is till the only device with Multi-Touch) than everything out there. No one has built a real competitor device yet. The only down side is AT&T and I have friends from the midwest who say AT&T is great for them. So if your thinking about getting one I'd say pin down an iPhone user and make them tell you how AT&T's service is in your area. And for Gods sake don't ask an AT&T rep. They're just salesmen.
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