Question of the Day

Question of the Day: Which is more important: Operating System, Applications or Carrier?

With all the recent talk due to Microsoft shaking things up in the mobile operating system arena, I think it is time to ask the users which is more important when deciding upon a device to use.

Is the operating system the deciding factor. Is a device, simply because it runs Android, your device of choice? What makes the iPhone so popular? Is it the operating system?

WebOS is a compelling an interesting platform. There’s no doubt about that. Palm proved they can generate a fascinating, fully multi-tasking operating system, perhaps better than any out there to date. In the process, they killed support for tens of thousands of Palm OS applications. Will Palm ever be relevant again? Don’t know, but they sure would have been closer if they added an emulation layer for existing Palm OS apps. Many developers who were burned by Palm’s decision won’t be going back. Their user base will suffer. Would the iPhone be what the iPhone is today without the plethora of third party applications?

Does carrier drive decision. For me it did. I liked my HTC Hermes. I didn’t like the poor AT&T reception. Cancelled my contract and went with US Cellular and a HTC Touch Pro. Not only is the Touch Pro a great update to the Hermes, US Cellular is SOOOO much better than AT&T. Their (AT&T’s) commercials make me laugh (and get angry). I was fooled by them.

So, it looks like I’ve presented a tons of questions in expanding upon my initial question of which is more important, the operating system, availability of apps or carrier. What do you think? Hit the comments below and let us know.

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