Microsoft Phone Toadies
February 20, 2010
Wow, the “new” Windows mobile 7 phone announced recently by Microsoft is really bringing out swarms of Microsoft shills and toadies. These people are tripping over each other to pile accolades on something that not only does not exist yet in the real world, but will not exist until the “holidays”. Notice no firm date, just a season. Assuming MS can stay on a production schedule (big assumption), this might be December, which is 10 months in the future. That is almost a year from now! Yow!
So let’s face facts, this device does not exist. What we have are previews and mock ups. Not a real, working, usable phone. And the shills are out there trying to create buzz over what amounts to mock ups. GMAFB, please!
What’s obvious is these features that everyone is hot and bothered over are not implemented yet. Which means there might be some nice ideas in all this, but there is no way to tell how well any of this works. Excuse me, how well any of this will work. Perhaps they might require the mobile version of a 3 finger salute from time to time. Or other Microsoft-isms. What about viruses? Another Microsoft-ism. Will owners of such devices have to buy secondary products to maintain a modicum of sanity and security, or will we be able to depend on Microsoft for this?
There is a long of history within Microsoft of this kind of bogus product announcement, so its a little surprising to find so many who are so easily taken in.
Why are these people so easily swayed by something that seems to have a rather obvious whiff of snake oil about it? One has to ask is there some quid-pro-quo in these reviews?
The Linux Snob sees many more questions than answers here.
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