…aber nie zu fragen wagten, hat Lukas Mathis hier aufgeschrieben. Ich erlaube mir, das Fazit zu zitieren:
After looking at the clean, ascetic visual language of WP7 for such a long time, iOS suddenly seems garish, overdone, and kind of ugly. Looking at iOS 4 feels like looking at a screenshot of a pinstriped Mac OS X Cheetah from 2001.4 So I really don’t particularly want to go back to that.
Two of the issues I had with the Palm Prē don’t apply to my WP7 phone: speed and screen size. WP7 runs great on my phone. Scrolling feels smooth in almost all cases, apps launch instantly. It’s usually about as responsive as my iPhone. And the screen isn’t small; in fact, it’s larger than the iPhone’s screen. It makes the iPhone’s screen look positively tiny in comparison.
But there’s still the ecosystem issue.
WP7 is doing quite well when it comes to games. It’s not surprising; many Xbox titles have companion titles on WP7. But for other things, it doesn’t look too great. There’s no timetable app for the Swiss train system. The timetable website works on WP7’s Internet Explorer, but not well. There’s no Audible app. One might be coming at some point, but there’s no official word from Audible. There’s no good podcast downloading app. There’s no really great Instapaper app. Soulver, Tweetbot, Kinetic, TaskPaper, Screens, Prompt: none of these apps exist for WP7.5
Some of these issues will eventually be fixed. The next WP7 update, Mango, may introduce native support for downloading podcasts directly. And Audible will probably do a WP7 app sooner or later. But right now, these things don’t exist.
Ich wünschte, ich hätte die Zeit, die Akribie und nicht zuletzt die Fachkenntnis für solche Posts. Kann mich nicht erinnern, in einer Fachzeitschrift in letzter Zeit etwas derart Substanzielles gelesen zu haben. The times, they’re a‑changing…
Eine Blogroll habe ich augenblicklich nicht mehr. Aber wenigstens folge ich @LKM ab sofort bei Twitter. Ich denke, das lohnt sich.