Windows Phone 7: Needs Apps to be Balanced
There is plenty of talk and promotion about how the new Windows Phone 7 mobile platform looks and works. And frankly, the new OS really is quite impressive.
Microsoft has been able to outdo themselves in the design and the execution of the WP7 handset. The OS itself is far from final, it s comprehensive, smooth and well made. The visual quality of the animations and transitions creates a new look and feel for the Microsoft mobile platform.
There is currently plenty of talk and discussion about existing features such as the Bing search engine, Zune, Silverlight, MSN Player, the Xbox Live Games services and more. However, as many might notice, these are all Microsoft made features. While the device does support integrated social networking, it still lacks a strong library of apps that users can rely on.
Of course, it would be pretty demanding to expect that WP7 apps are already available, but the fact is, Microsoft needs to attract a significant number of developers for their OS.
According to some, having apps to choose from is one of the key reasons why they aimed for a smart phone in the first place. Many other people who are not interested in apps would rarely go for smart phones at all. Of course, the WP7 OS has its own merits, but lacking a decent app library would be very disappointing.
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, is confident that the Windows Phone 7 OS is going to attract both users and developers. Despite the initial reactions from developers that the system is hard to develop for (especially since the cross platform programming can be quite a daunting task), it seems that WP7 users will have new games and apps to look forward to when the system is finally launched this coming September or October and with promising handsets like the HTC Gold expected to be running Windows Phone 7, things are looking up for Microsoft fans.