@Market Analyst
The most locked down and difficult environment to develop in is that for Apple. The number of apps is based on the market place for those apps. The iPhone is a shining example of the strength and merits of capitalism - supply and demand - and consumer driven success.
Historically WM devices have been hands down the most customizable smart phones available, with the least restructions placed on developers. Applications do not have to run through a gauntlet of approval steps and then risk being rendered unavailable to the consumer.
With WM developers don't have to worry aobut the political correctness police from making choices for you as to what you can and cannot download and install.
Granted WM phones are in their current versions out of date, and quite slow. Well that is of course for the one HTC model with the 1Ghz Snapdragon CPU.
But the fact is you can install apps quite similar to what you would find for a Windows desktop. Things like reg editors, video overlays, tweaks galore for the WM shell.
I'd anticipate that the WM7 environment will prove to be exceeeeeeeeeedingly popular if they maintain the same structure and extensibility that WM6 and 6.5 offered.
Power, speed, getting up to date, the services they have announced all sound great in my view.
For those that think WM is dead, well I doubt it personally but I could be wrong.
I tend to think that is the negative hateful desire of many who on the one hand claim to champion the free market and choices but celebrate the demise of one more choice for consumers.
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