Good apps are driving me from Windows Mobile
I'm a Microsoft developer. I write for Windows desktops. I write for the web using Windows servers. Every smart phone I've ever owned was Windows Mobile. I'm not sure I can do that any more, at least the phone bits.
I look at the applications that are being made for iPhone and Android, at what can be done with just a decent browser and I am ... embarrassed. My (shall remain nameless) Windows Mobile device feels like a brick. Clunky, inelegant, rough.
Here's how bad it is ...
I have a first generation iPod Touch given to me way back when. It kicks my phone's butt. It doesn't have GPS in it ... my phone does; It still kicks my phone's butt. If I'm in the office or at home I never use my phone... I reach for my iPod Touch. The experience is smooth, the applications (even with my crappy Gen 1 device) plentiful. Web applications that leverage HTML5 capability like storage, local sql, offline capabilities are springing up everywhere; None of them run on my phone, all of them run on my iPod Touch.
I really hope Windows Mobile 7 doesn't suck. If it does, I'm fearful for "my" Microsoft in the mobile space.
