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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
If you're outside of the automotive industry or these forums (TMO & MeeGo.com) I'm more than willing to bet they've not heard of MeeGo.



I've had quite a few comments about WP7. Love the UI, dislike the lack of apps that I've gotten accustomed to on iOS and Android. It's much maligned for no reason, but at the same time I can declare it to be a mediocre OS at the moment. Was playing with Mango (Build 7661) and IE9 is honestly quite the improvement.

I'm not a fan of their (MS Visual Studio .NET) development platform - been too many years since I've developed .NET actively. Wanted to see if Maemo 6/Qt would be a better fit for me, but more than likely stick to Android dev instead - can do Adobe AIR or Android App Inventor.

With that said, WP7 is better than folks give it credit. But I have to honestly stills ay that it's not good enough to have gambled Nokia's immediate future on though. And that's after a month solid of using it, playing with it, looking at code and investing into it some time.

Integration is lacking, UI feels snappy, e-mail app sorta sucks but beats Modest, browser (before IE9) REALLY sucks, no Adobe Flash yet, XBOX integration is sweet as hell if you have one, boots quickly, needs better hardware, isn't optimized for the existing hardware, has decent games, lacks front camera (until Mango), not bad on battery life (better than N900)... there you go. Rapid fire feedback.

I'd say that it's overly simplified though. They're outdoing Apple in that regard (not a good thing).
I do honestly appreciate your comments about WP because quite frankly i have never played more than a few minutes worth and looking at what you have just said i would say for sure once Nokia get the "Nokia" handset ready i am sure WP will be much more advanced than before.

I respect your opinions even if some don't and would read your future comments on WP also.