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>Making a Windows Mobile phone only teaches you how not to make a smartphone. Not to say it's not valuable knowledge. You seem to have no idea how hard it is t
by cooldeal 15y ago
>Making a Windows Mobile phone only teaches you how not to make a smartphone. Not to say it's not valuable knowledge.
You seem to have no idea how hard it is to make mobile hardware. There's a ton of work involved including having to make arrangements with the suppliers, sourcing components,etc. Being a profitable incumbent is a huge advantage compared to a newcomer.
- rbanffy 15y ago> You seem to have no idea how hard it is to make mobile hardware. I do, trust me. That's why I value highly the knowledge of how not to make a mobile phone. Like I said, most WinMo phones are lessons on what not to do - styluses, resistive touchscreens (agreed there was a time capacitive touch didn't exist) hard-to-use multitasking and an inflexible, hard to customize OS (I felt that pain too, but, luckily, Windows CE was almost ready to run on our hardware). There is, indeed, a ton of work involved and zillions of ways things can (and often do) go wrong, but, luckily, you don't have to build Windows Mobile phones to learn that. The Nokia folks, for instance, always had top notch hardware and never built a WinMo phone.
- nitrogen 15y agoEven if HTC gained that knowledge from their time making WinMo phones and not from their time making hardware for Dell and HP, that knowledge belongs to them and has nothing to do with the OS their phones were running.