Does anyone remember the days when 'journalists' were supposed to simply report an occurrence and let their audience come up with their own opinions? Rather than tell the audience what their opinion should be and use evidence from the occurrence to back it up? It reminds me of doing the science fair as a kid. Create a hypothesis, then find a way to try and prove it. This is exactly what happened with Windows Vista and this is exactly what is happening now with Windows Phone 7. Tech Press Hypothesis – Windows Phone 7 will suck. (How DARE Microsoft challenge our beloved Apple and 'do no evil' Google masters?) So how have they gone about their little task of destroying Windows Phone 7 before anyone even has a chance to use it? Just like any good 'journalist' that has an agenda you only point out the facts that support your argument and ignore the ones that would contend or dis-prove it. So let's start with 'InforWorld's Galen Gruman and his article 'Windows Phone 7: Don't bother with this disaster.' (Wow, this sounds completely un-biased already!) According to InfoWorld's 'Blogger Bio' Galen Gruman is an executive editor. So essentially as high up the food chain there a writer can get it would seem. Based on everything I read in this article (posted July 15th 2010) he has not been hands on with a Windows Phone 7 device (at least at the time he hadn't.) All of his opinions and assumptions are derived from a developer conference using a prototype device with beta software. (Windows Phone 7 reached RTM September 1st 2010.) Now, while you can get a general idea if a UI or concept are bad in beta software, rule #1 is 'do not judge performance until you hit a released product.' Massive UI changes even happen between beta and release products. (Am I saying that has happened? I honestly don't know but it's always a distinct possibility and you shouldn't stick your neck out with an early assumption because you just might be sticking it into a guillotine.) So let's take a look at some of his opinions; This comment is from the second paragraph. Seriously. "Windows Phone 7 is a waste of time and money. Its a platform that no carrier, device maker, developer, or user should bother with. Microsoft should kill it before it ships and admit that its out of the mobile game for good. It is supposed to ship around Christmas 2010, but anyone who gets one will prefer a lump of coal. I really mean that." Now we see how his opinion of Microsoft doesn't influence his point of view at all; "Visions of Vistas litter of control panel dialog boxes, Microsoft Bob, the Office ribbon, Clippy, and Windows 3 flew through my head -- not that Windows Phone 7 looks like any of these; it just shares the same flaw of being obtuse." Now does he has some legitimate and fact based complaints about Windows Phone 7? He absolutely does and it is good to report on them, but getting to the level of throwing a hissy fit and asking obviously stupid questions ruins his 'fact' based section. The interface is 'clunky'. Now, I can't say for a fact that it isn't, since I haven't (nor had he) actually played with a device yet. Also, once again might I point out that this was beta software on a prototype phone? I think you should save these observations for the real product. Now, you might say "at this point the interface seems clunky." The IE7 complaint. Yes, IE 7 is old. As he notes they added in some IE 8 functionality, but it does not yet support HTML5 as the other mobile platforms do. His complaint? Why doesn't Windows Phone 7 run IE9. Hmmm probably for the same reason most Windows machines don't run IE9 yet. IT'S STILL BETA. In fact a very recently released beta. (Post July 15th.) So, he is complaining that a browser that hadn't even been released to beta yet should be the production browser for the phone? Not following the logic here buddy. Windows Phone 7 does not support multi-tasking 3rd party apps. Ok, while true I personally don't see the big problem here. Personally I don't see how that would be necessary, other than possibly a real time communication or Facebook app. None of the other 1st generation platforms did their either. Is that an excuse? Not really, more of an explanation. Microsoft, just as Google was under a time crunch to get this device out to compete. Some features had to go. Multi-tasking isn't a technology limitation per se. It was a decision of 'we don't have enough time to test and get proper restraints in place to prevent 3rd party apps from ruining the experience (chewing up too many resources or causing stability issues) for the user and thus reflecting poorly on the device so we just won't allow it until we do.' Apple never wanted to allow 3rd party multi-tasking for this exact same reason and it's a legitimate one. Why let some sucky dev's app give people a bad impression of your OS? Do you want an even better example? Virtually all 'BSD's or 'blue screens of death' in Windows are caused by 3rd party apps and drivers, yet who gets blamed for them? Microsoft learned this lesson and they didn't want their launch getting tainted by it. I consider this a very wise decision. It doesn't support copy and paste. (Neither did the iPhone at launch.) Honestly, this one confuses me and is a fully legitimate complaint. All Windows Mobile OS's have supported that for quite a long time. No idea why this got cut. My best guess? They thought (like Apple and so many other companies) they could 'do better' than copy and paste and replace the need for it. It's a bit like social engineering. Our consumer is too stupid to know what they want, so we'll force them to learn our new way. Yeah… That didn't work out so well for Linux or Gmail, or the iPhone even or anyone else MS. Don't forget you play in a free market guys, give the consumer what they want, don't tell them what they want. Unlike other 'fan bases' we aren't zombies that will forgive everything you do out of devotion. Your primary base is the business consumer, don't forget that. So how does he summarize this article? "Microsoft needs to kill Windows Phone 7 and avoid further embarrassing itself by shipping this throwback. Its not a question of whether Windows Phone 7 will fail -- it will -- but how long it will take Microsoft to admit the failure." This is a lot of hatred and animosity for a platform that hasn't even been released and he hadn't even touched yet. This isn't even my only example of this blatant hatred and hope for failure for Windows Phone 7 in the tech press. In fact, it is vastly one sided coverage of the imminent failure of Windows Phone 7. This is eerily similar to the pre-Vista launch coverage and soured many people against not only a very good OS but a necessary one. Vista finally forced developers to play by the rules and write their apps in the proper manner. So guess what? Apps broke, and who got blamed? Vista. Old printers didn't work anymore because manufacturers refused to write new drivers so they can sell new printers. Who got blamed? Vista. So here's my point. Don't listen to these blowhards who have obvious bias's and agendas while trying to portray it as 'journalism.' Keep an open mind, wait until you have the actual real product in hand and let your free market power decide if Windows Phone 7 is a winner or a loser. Just don't let losers pick the winners for you. (If you would like a list of other examples, let me know in the comments, or if you would like to point out examples yourselves, please feel free to do so!) <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz&partnerID=167&key=segment" /> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29715.rss.TechBiz.9425,cat.TechBiz.rss" /> Windows Phone 7 - Microsoft - iPhone - Apple - Windows Vista
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