Reply To: Android Apps for design, business, and productivity

[Steve Mercer]

Android is still a relatively young platform for productivity apps.  Though it has promise it has a long way to go before catching up with more mature platforms such as Windows Mobile.  Though I scratch my head sometimes at Microsoft’s strategies.  Most all of the productivity apps for Windows Mobile are for WM 6.5 and lower.  WM 7 is a complete rewrite and Microsoft doesn’t seem to want the business community to move to WM 7 as a lot of the features the Business community is use to using in WM 6.5 and lower are missing in WM 7.  It appears to me that Microsoft was in such a hurry to create a product to compete with the iphone that they left the business community behind.  Since the iphone wasn’t created origonally for business users I guess Microsoft didn’t see the need to put those features in WM 7.  The whole smartphone phenomena is hampered by the cell phone carriers.  Each phone has to be certified by each carrier.  And carriers don’t always see the need to certify a new device (Look how long it has taken to get another carrier besides AT&T to certify the iphone)