It’s interesting to see Tim O’Reilly and Joe Wilcox join in the chorus signaling to Microsoft that it needs some major changes in the mobile space.
My recommendation continues to be to stop, rethink, and redo. The Windows Mobile team is on a legacy track. The future is more geared around “browsing,” content creation, and connectivity. A device that can’t keep do these well out of the box isn’t going to hack it.
These two posts also point out the value of the generic browser in small PCs and devices. Yep. If there wasn’t already enough pressure on the IE team, this surely indicates there should be more. Actually, my suggestion is that Microsoft start from scratch here and show how Google Chrome really should have been written. Sorry, I don’t think Google hit the sweet spot. I think they blew a great opportunity to make a browser that could manage most of want user would want to do with a small device today. As I blogged the other day, the iPhone proves that a slimmed down browser isn’t the solution. Again, it’s time to stop, rethink, and redo.