Posted on 02/17/2010 3:52:01 PM PST by illiac
Need more proof Microsoft is nowhere near the cutting edge of the mobile industry? At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, the software superpower was conspicuously missing from the conference's 2010 Global Mobile Award winners.
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Hmmm... Apple didn’t win, neither did Google. Blackberry was the only named winner.
And when an iPhone finally has the features and ease-of-use of my WinMo 6.5 HTC Diamond Touch Pro 2 running SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 I’ll pay attention to it (heck, if it could just do more than one thing at a time it would be a big step up!).
Google Android phone and Jobs both won awards.
The HTC Hero (which has as its UI HTC Sense, an upgraded version of TouchFLO) won an award as the best device, not the best OS. It is groundbreaking in many of the hardware features it has, and HTC Sense has won awards all over the place. Jobs won a non-technical “person of the year” type award, not the iPhone or Apple.
Not sure how these become big wins for Google and Apple...
Google was the OS for the winning device, not Windows; Jobs not Balmer won the person award. I was responding to “Apple didn’t win, neither did Google” which I think is a bit overstating.
So which award did Google win? Which award did Apple win? Because they’re not listed in either. If you want to stretch, fine...
HTC won not because of the OS. Go to the HTC website and check out the Hero; the ONLY place you’ll find it runs Android is on the “specifications” page; the other 7 pages all talk about the features and HTC Sense. Android isn’t the reason the Hero rocks; the hardware and UI features that HTC put together are.
The OS is fairly critical to the device and Jobs is CEO of Apple.
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