Microsoft allowed Windows Mobile 5/6 to suck for too long, and it left a bad taste in people's mouth.

Even if your parents did join, you would put them in their own circle, right? I mean that's one of the benefits of the system.

Right on. I should just make a dummy account and test it.

Does anyone know, when you set up ten Google accounts for the easy account switching thingy they just announced, is it listed anywhere that people can see? Or is that link kept private?

I'm definitely going to buy this juice, because it's obvious that STEVE JOBS endorses it!

However, I DO think Ninty needs to open up their dev kit to allow for robust app stores on their handhelds. Not games necessarily, but lifestyle/consumer apps.

Which (imho) is exactly why we will never see a real Zelda game on iOS. Nintendo isn't a few guys in a home office making a repetitive pick up and play game for phones. They can't (shouldn't) support themselves on ninety-nine cent apps. Not to mention the controls would suck.

I agree. MS is trying to build an ecosystem to compare to Androids.

I haven't lived in Arizona since 2003, but we called it a haboob back then.

If you set this up, does it show anywhere on your profile(s) the accounts you have connected? Or is that kept private?

Stupid American website anyways.

If it were me, and I were confident that my apps were good, I would rather get them out there now, while the pond is small, than wait until I have 100,000+ apps to compete with for mindshare.

I am a huge booster for WP, and I have to say the last few days have been great. A *bunch* of "official" apps finally appeared, seemingly all at once (things like Vevo, DC Comics, AllRecipes, etc. as opposed to 3rd party iterations of such). However, there is a lot of spam in there too - like a developer will create…

We actually got a whole bunch of "official" apps over the last couple days. It's been nice. I think Nokia/mango will help too.

Never go full-double tong.

Unless you root it.

Precisely.

"People with Blackberrys swear by it". There's your answer. I think the days of everyone adopting a single chat protocol are pretty much over, or at least on hold. We're seeing this in the popularity of things like Pidgin, Trillian, Digsby, heck, even Google Talk hooks up with AIM. Unless they released a…

Boy I hope the first Mango phones have this. I really want to be able to video conference with my wife and children. I know a lot of people consider front facing cameras to be a gimmick, but it seems like the word "gimmick" just means "feature I don't want" to many people.

I liked the idea of it being a music discovery service. They were too slow to move though.