Entries tagged with “ovi” from Paul Lopez Unwired

Rather than launching Windows Mobile 7.0, Microsoft introduced an intermediate step in its quest to stem the Smartphone market share decline during 2008. The new platform has a touch-friendly honey-comb style main menu, wider menus with big icons and an online service called Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The success of the Apple App Store has prompted other manufacturers such as RIM and Nokia (Ovi Store) to follow suit in promoting the developer community. Before the iPhone, Microsoft had split the Smartphone market with RIM. Now it competes in a crowded marketplace (i.e., smaller world) where creating separation from competitors becomes a challenge. They should let RIM battle Apple and focus on differentiating against the Palm Pre. To me, "Pre" means "Pre-iPhone" and "Pre-Blackberry," I'm watching out for Palm, they're still getting noticed.