I thought I'd try to collect some of the more helpful links and articles I've come across in connection with the iPhone 3G launch. Please feel free to add!

Windows Mobile Still Set to Dominate iPhone?

Apple Apologizes for its MobileMe ‘Push’ Service

The iPhone as a Mail Device

Twelve Reasons to Buy a Windows Mobile Phone

5 Ways Windows Mobile Still One-Ups the iPhone

Walt Mossberg's Take on iPhone 3G

David Pogue's Take

iPhone 3G Parody Video

And here's one more - a brand-new Computerworld interview with Scott Rockfeld, group products manager for the mobile communications business at Microsoft:

Microsoft: Forget iPhone; We're Still No. 2 in Business

In the interview, as Computerworld notes,Rockfeld makes clear:

"Companies -- lots of them -- are still buying Windows Mobile smart phones, and Microsoft Corp. doesn't want to let iPhone mania make them forget."

Still more: Chuong Nguyen's detailed Pocketnow.com article about some of the issues encountered with Apple's App Store.

"I wanted to see if Windows Mobile can compete with the rumored polish that Apple promises," Chuong writes.

Read more.

And this article is an interestin addendum

http://gizmodo.com/5027790/why-we-still-need-the-iphone-app-black-market

Here's another one that showed up this morning, and has already been widely referenced:

Walt Mossberg: Apple's MobileMe is Far Too Flawed to Be Reliable

This is a pretty harsh, and surprising, critique of Apple's "Exchange for the Rest of Us," about which Mossberg says,

"The problems I am citing are systemic."

Something to keep in mind...!

 Here's the real situation from the front lines at AT&T.

 I love the iPhone, because it gets more people interested in smartphones/more powerful mobile devices.  I ask every customer that comes about what is so interesting about the iPhone.  Most of the people say internet or apps.  I then go on to explain that every phone can be used to get on the web, going into more detail about what excites them.

 Most people are either adults that want e-mail access, and occasional news/weather, or kids wanting to use social sites.  With the exception of a Facebook native app, I've been selling more Blackjacks and Pantech Duos this month when they see they are cheaper upfront than the iPhone, can add thousands of apps, and costs the same per month as the iPhone.

 I love the iPhone, it's such a great leader for some really nice devices.

Bill Fisher:

Here's another one that showed up this morning, and has already been widely referenced:

Walt Mossberg: Apple's MobileMe is Far Too Flawed to Be Reliable

This is a pretty harsh, and surprising, critique of Apple's "Exchange for the Rest of Us," about which Mossberg says,

"The problems I am citing are systemic."

Something to keep in mind...!

 

I love explaining that you can get an hosted Exchange server for the same price as MobileMe, then you add Mesh on top of it for file transfers, lo and behold, a more robust solution that works!

Nicely done, Kris! What an awesome way to tackle the situation! I think you're probably quite right that the iPhone has opened a lot of minds to the idea of doing Web/e-mail/apps on their phone, and in a lot of ways this actually works to the advantage of *every* competitor, including WM...

In the continuing MobileMe saga, Ars Technica has posted what they say is an internal Apple e-mail from Steve Jobs, in which he admits

"The MobileMe launch clearly demonstrates that we have more to learn about Internet services."

Wow! 

thanks mate

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