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While not specifically a phone, the iphone does have ancestry that didn't exactly "sweep the market" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform) http://en.w
by barranger 16y ago
While not specifically a phone, the iphone does have ancestry that didn't exactly "sweep the market"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)
- protomyth 16y agoiOS has about as much to do with the Newton as it has to do with Go.
- recoiledsnake 16y agoAnd Windows Phone 7 has barely anything to do with Windows Mobile. And no one can court developers like Microsoft(the big problem with Nokia). There are already close to 10,000 applications compared to close to 5,000 for WebOS which had a head start.
- jamesgeck0 16y agoWindows Phone 7 is based on Windows CE 6 [1]. It has a lot more code in common with Windows Mobile than iOS has with the Newton. 1. http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/windows-phone-7-based-on-a-hybrid-windows-ce-6-compact-7-kerne/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/windows-phone-7-based-on-...
- recoiledsnake 16y agoWindows CE 6 is a complete redesign of Windows CE 5.2(on which Windows Mobile is based).
- dexen 16y agoWindows Phone 7 is product of the same organization, staffed by mostly the same people, with only certain degree of improvement to development process since the CE 6. What makes you hope 7 will have better quality?
- seabee 16y agoEverything I've heard about the Zune HD (the only pure CE 6 device I'm aware of) is positive. Maybe you're getting confused with Windows Mobile 6.5, which is based on an older version. Besides, Windows 7 is of unquestionably better quality than Vista, so what's your point?
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoThe value of the Newton to iOS is not in shared technology (obviously, that is next to nothing), but in what Apple may have learned about the market. That is probably impossible to quantify in any way.