Apple vs. Microsoft: a Tale of Two Mobile Updates

snydeq writes "The latest mobile updates from Apple and Microsoft provide a stark contrast, one emblematic of the differences between the two companies, InfoWorld's Ted Samson writes. Militantly on time, Apple's iOS 4.3 update offers significant new functionality, total disregard for what Apple considers outdated systems, and mandated silencing of user complaints. Microsoft, meanwhile, has finally managed to push out an alleged February update to a subset of users, along with a lamentation about having to deal with handset and carrier fragmentation."

Comments

A&M again?

[theBully]

Why is everyone so pumped about comparing these guys and talking about them? They haven't changed their behavior and approached in the last ten years one bit. Apple still makes incredibly expensive stuff that sells I don't even know why and Microsoft is still taking blows for their security related issues just as they have 10 years ago. Apple still consolidates Microsoft's position in the operating system market by creating an equivalence between Microsoft and PC in their idiotic "Get a Mac" campaign while Microsoft does not fail to re-confirm that their higher level of innovation goes to copying Apple. With that, Apple's happy, Apple fan-boys are happy, Microsoft is happy, we pay ridiculous prices for a damn phone, but we're happy 'cause it makes us cool (...yeah, right!).

Now could someone tell me please:
What was the news, or at least the element of novelty in the cited article?
or if there wasn't any:
Why did the guy write the article?
or
How the heck does this qualify as: "News for Nerds"?
Thanks

The whining is hilarious

[dnaumov]

What? A device manufacturer isn't releasing a software update for a device that's 2,5 years old (3G launch date: 11.08.2008)? Someone call the press! Seriously, with other manufacturers you are lucky if you get updates for a single year. Bitching that your 2,5 year old phone isn't getting an update is completely ridiculous.

Re:Take off the rose coloured glasses

[ynp7]

But isn't Windows 7 really just a very late "Vista.1"?

Re:Windows Phone 7

[PopeRatzo]

How funny is it that Apple Nation shows up in force to accuse someone who makes a positive comment about WP7 of astroturfing?

Fuck you guys and your smartphone wars. Why don't you get chains and knives and just go have an old fashioned rumble in the playground? Winner gets undisputed claim to "bestest smartphone ever, even until the end of the universe".