Oh the shock of it all!

Everybody knows the way market research firms work. They provide the data their paid subscribers pay for, thereby making product marketing managers look brilliant no matter how ridiculous their projections are. Then, when the forecasted market growth does not occur, managers can blame unforeseen circumstances. And of course the subscription is then renewed. Everybody wins! Meanwhile, the media rarely enforces the veracity of these forecasts, because they're all bought and paid for too.

Successful product marketing managers eventually realize the money is steadier and bigger - while accountability is pleasingly less - running market research firms.

That Windows Mobile has been hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Microsoft - Time to DIE. DIE.

The hyperbole from Chuck is laughable. He no longer has credibility. Here is a quote from him up above:

"People who buy WM6.5 today will soon have useless paperweights." -Chuck

So let me get this straight... I have a Samsung Saga with WinMo 6.1. It works fine, but I will upgrade it this month to 6.5 using a sleek cooked ROM. Once WinMo 7 comes out, my Samsung Saga will all of a sudden stop working. Does anybody believe such drivel. Chuck... WTF???

The reason why WinMo will make a comeback is because Microsoft is the biggest software house in the world and is finally listening to its engineers who have been telling management all along that more investment is needed. Unfortunately, Microsoft's board members have been too focused on courting Yahooooooo uuuuu! Hey... even companies do dumb things when they fall in love. All us guy's can relate right? Thought so.

Considering that iPhone have built-in support for Exchange Sync and it is on the way for Android too. Well it does support it right now, just not the security policies which most companies use. However, 3rd party applications exist that offer complete Exchange sync support.

So I don't see how it would give Microsoft any edge because companies are using Exchange when there are alternatives that works just as good or better.

Not to mention how easy and useful Apple's App Store and Google's Market are to the users, easy access to a big library of applications.

Just bought the Touch Pro 2 with Sprint and it seems to me it is very much alive thanks to the Touch Flo overlay and the upcoming 6.5 update. I can stream music to my phone with Windows Mobile and Windows 7, sync with my Zune Pass subscription, and edit/view documents in Office Mobile.

Windows Mobile is a business users' phone. So long as businesses use Microsoft products, the demand for a Windows Mobile phone will always exist.

Things will only get better for Microsoft on its Windows Mobile platform. When they lose marketshare in an area, they are pretty aggressive about getting it back. Not sure why the author is so excited to write it off and bemoan its existence.

I smell a rat with this iSuppli data.

Closer inspection of the report shows that the data is not based on handset sales. It is merely counting licenses.

Microsoft does not make its own phone. Instead, it makes the OS software, and licenses that to other manufacturers. This iSuppli report seems to be counting the number of manufacturing licenses each Operating System has.

Using such data, the best-selling phone on the market, Apple's iPhone, will get a low ranking, as its only licensee is itself. Another top-selling phone, the Palm Pre, will also get a low ranking, as Palm doesn't license its WebOS to anyone but itself.

For the past year, Windows Mobile has been getting consistently bad press, as its market share plummets. One must question why such a positive report would be released now. And what incredible timing. The iSuppli report is released a couple of days before the debut of Windows Mobile 6.5, and one of the biggest marketing campaigns for Microsoft. Just an amazing coincidence?

This is the most bizarre reports I've read. The authors must have been smokin' a Suppli of weed or somethin'.

Both Nokia's Symbian and Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 are the two dying platforms. Nokia will move to Linux based handsets.

A few years ago, Windows Mobile commanded 24% of world smartphone sales. Last year it went down to 12%. This year it is 9%. Put this on a graph, and there's no doubt where it's headed.

Rumours say that Microsoft is working on an entirely new mobile platform, codenamed 'Pink', which may eventually be rebranded as Windows Mobile (maybe Windows Mobile 7 is really 'Pink'), but Pink will be a new OS that is incompatible with today's Windows Mobile OS. People who buy WM6.5 today will soon have useless paperweights.

The current Windows Mobile 6.5 is almost dead-in-the-water. The new Microsoft 'Pink' mobile OS may come too late to save them.

Who is 'US'?