Windows mobile is a huge platform when it comes to business applications. There are still not scanning solutions available for the iPhone whereas the Windows Mobile platform is full of them and they are used by hundreds of thousands of devices (my company owns 15 of them for our scanning purposes). The iPhone does not have any framework for printing whereas the Windows Mobile does. There are many, many, many other aspects of the framework that can be used. Further, it is much easier to administer and control in large business environments than any other platform since it integrates directly into the Microsoft Active Directory. Admins can control all aspects of the devices centrally. Apple’s “enterprise solution” is nothing more than a profile being uploaded to a phone with the ability to put restrictions on the phone (useless in some aspects since you can disable the safari but not other browser apps).

Yes, it has a long way to go to appeal to the millions of soccer moms who have purchased the iPhone, but it does not need to. There have always been many players in each market and they have always flourished.

As far as your comment about catching up to google goes, I have a question. Have you tried the G1? I own also a G1 and can tell you that it also has a long way to go to even catch up to Microsoft.

There are amazing apps for the Windows Mobile platform and as a whole, it has less garbage apps than the iPhone does. There are more business app than the iPhone does and the same number of social apps that the iPhone has (the important ones at least). Yes, it is lacking in games and farting applications but that is a good thing.

The iPhone is a great phone (I own one), but it is not without its faults. There are still a lot of functions that it can not perform such as editing documents and spreadsheets. It would not be hard for any company to top the iPhone given some improvement in user interface and application delivery.

The thought that Apple created the holy grail is a common thought, but it is misleading to believe that it can never be topped.

Funny, in Seattle Verizon provides the best coverage around but their hardware is outdated and late to the game much like many of Microsoft’s poorly executed initiatives.

It’s like one turd taking turns trying to shine another turd

That is hilarious. We happen to own both, a windows phone and an iPod Touch… there is no comparison in the ease of use of the two OS’s. In fact our windows phone is gathering dust in a drawer, while the iPod travels with us almost everywhere. Microsoft has its work cut out to just catch Apple, Google, and it looks like Palm.

Just scaling down your desktop OS is not a solution is 2009.

The only thing that will stand in its way is unfair advertising, biased blog authors and reporter (like many of the ones on this blog), and unfair business practices (like Apple telling Verizon that it will not produce a product for them if they keep selling Windows Mobile devices for example). Price point means nothing when it comes to these devices as the iPhone has already proved.

Probably it should try to buy one of them – RIM