{"id":381876,"date":"2010-03-02T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=27241"},"modified":"2010-03-02T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:01:23","slug":"mister-gruber-looks-at-the-winphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381876","title":{"rendered":"Mister Gruber looks at the Winphone"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMmmm… there’s nothing better for lunch than a tasty sandwich of John Gruberisms. Today John looks at Windows Phone<\/a>, noting his concerns with the platform in his usual calm, inimitable style.<\/p>\n

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The bigger naming question: Why name it \u201cWindows\u201d anything? If Microsoft is going for a clean break, why not a new non-\u201cWindows\u201d name? I think it shows just how perverse Microsoft\u2019s obsession with \u201cWindows\u201d is. There\u2019s no good way to leverage their Windows PC OS monopoly to extend it to mobile, other than the name, so they\u2019re sticking with it. It doesn\u2019t even make literal sense. The whole point of the \u201cWindows\u201d name is that it was for a system whose UI revolved around the concept of on-screen windows. There are no windows in the Windows Phone 7 interface. (There\u2019s also no Start menu in the WP7 UI; that was the linchpin of UI similarity between Windows (for PCs) and Windows Mobile.)\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He’s not saying much we don’t already know but he mentions something I forgot about, the Osborne Effect<\/a>. If you’ve ever wondered why camera companies are such dicks when it comes to releasing news, it’s because of this. If you have product in channel and pre-announce something, that previous product will be construed, in general, as garbage. Here’s a fun example:<\/p>\n

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In 1978, North Star Computers announced a new version of their floppy disk controller, which had double the capacity, to be sold at the same price as their existing range. Sales of the existing products plummeted and the company almost went bankrupt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

WinMo users: Will you get behind Windows Phone? <\/p>\n

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Mmmm… there’s nothing better for lunch than a tasty sandwich of John Gruberisms. Today John looks at Windows Phone, noting his concerns with the platform in his usual calm, inimitable style. The bigger naming question: Why name it \u201cWindows\u201d anything? If Microsoft is going for a clean break, why not a new non-\u201cWindows\u201d name? I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}