4 ms·
You've grown beyond envy! Congrats! The Windows 7 phone so far looks like something that might be able to do well in the market. As an Android and iPhone user,
by houseabsolute 16y ago
You've grown beyond envy! Congrats!
The Windows 7 phone so far looks like something that might be able to do well in the market. As an Android and iPhone user, I can say it definitely has more visual appeal than the former. It also appears to run more smoothly and have a better media experience. Now, is it going to be as useful overall? That remains to be seen. Getting Trident's HTML5 support to a better place than it is now is going to be a critical step on that path.
- jf 16y agoIE 9 will eventually run on the phone, just not at launch.
- eob 16y agoJust adopt WebKit already. You would all get infinity karma points from the web development community.
- sjs 16y agoAs long as IE can perform well and implements modern features expected of mobile browsers I'm all for the competition. If we can say anything definitive about browsers it's that competition and multiple popular implementations is a good thing. I like WebKit as much as the next guy and the idea of deploying to a single rendering engine (on mobile) is nice. The ecosystem is more important though.
- snprbob86 16y agoBlame executive leadership / legal and corporate affairs. My understanding is that the engineers and several VPs TRIED to adopt WebKit...
- houseabsolute 16y agoI don't understand the point of launching something that is inferior to the other things that are already out there. It's one thing if there is no competition, but if there's already stiff competition my instinct is to wait until the product is 100% ready so you minimize your attrition from people who switch then realize they made a mistake.