Projections

[Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>]

In the accounting and business world "projections" is the term for "how
much money will I probably make". In everyone else's world, the term is
"baloney".

Nonetheless, you have to at some point make projections about what
technologies are going to succeed in order to build your team properly
to tackle them in the future. And if you happen to have an attack team,
this is one of the things you can ask them about to find out if they're
serious: "What new and emerging technologies are going to be relevant in
the near future?"

For example, Android and iOS are clear winners. But what about a third
option? Who is the Fanta to their Coke and Pepsi? I can tell you only
one thing: It's not Windows Mobile Phone System 7 365.

Ars Technica Said
<http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/reviews/2011/10/real-competition-from-redmond-windows-phone-7-mango-reviewed.ars>:
"Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" addresses every major weakness of Microsoft's
year-old smartphone OS revamp, and it builds even further on existing
strengths. It's now a match for Android and iOS---if the handset makers
can deliver."

Completely ridiculous. I have to assume that Ars employee is (or wants
to be) the spouse of a Microsoft developer.

I've carried a Windows Phone for a long time now as my primary phone,
and Mango is in many ways a step backwards or sideways. WebOS was a lot
better than Mango, and that's gone now. In summary, when you ask your
attack team, they should say "Windows Phone is not long for this world,
propped up only by Microsoft's stubbornness and masochistic desire to
lose lots of money."

Here's the top three awesome things about Windows Phone Mango:

 1. They made it so switching into a tab in the browser is a two step
    process. Because nobody wants to do more than one thing at a time,
    right?
 2. The GPS is something you have to monitor all the time, constantly
    losing satellite connections and only talking when you tap it - this
    distracts you and makes it more likely you're going to crash and die.
 3. The worst thing of all is their multitasking implementation. It's
    WebOS inspired, but without any of that usability WebOS had. It's
    essentially forgettable and feels exactly like the previous version,
    which is to say, terrible.

That said, Windows phones have good battery life. But this may be
because you just don't USE them that much.

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