[Touch CDMA Android Development] grktaurus83:
HAHA! Exactly!

Windows Mobile might not be the greatest thing ever, but it's not that bad. I've got no significant problems that make me feel I need to completely get away from it. Android has some problems with it that definitely do make me want to stay away. Here are three problems (the last one is minor):

1) You aren't allowed to close programs manually (unless the program has an exit button or feature).

Seriously. You can't. Android decides what to close and when. Google has officially said that this is the intended behavior and you shouldn't have to close programs. I guess that also means you shouldn't be allowed to close programs manually either?

One frustrating example of this: When I was messing around on the terminal and would switch over to the browser to test a connection, I'd go back to the terminal to find that it had now reset itself (Android had closed the terminal in the 8 seconds that I was away). So I'd have to su and switch over to the busy box shell all over again every time this happened. This happened about 70% of the time.

And yes, Windows Mobile used to behave somewhat like this. But thankfully it has moved away from this. Android should have learned from that.

2) Text highlighting and copy/paste functionality are either impossible, minimal, or painful to use.

Why is everyone so far behind on this? There really shouldn't be an excuse for this anymore.

3) Scroll bars. What's wrong with having a scroll bar in some places? Why is everyone so against them and so fascinated with sliding the screen down/up? If I want to get 75% of the way down (or to the end of) a long list, I should be able to get there in one sliding motion (place finger on the scroll box thing and slide that where I want to go) instead of repeatedly flicking the screen.

This should always be used in context though! Scroll bars are usually useful for file managers and (some) web pages. Contacts is a bad place to use a scroll bar (which is basically the only place android has a scroll bar).

In Android, you have to slide the scroller down until you find the letter you are looking for, then scroll for the specific contact. Why not just list the alphabet on the right side, like Windows Mobile 6.1? That way you know how far you need to slide down to get to the letter you want or you can just select the letter you want. After that, you're usually not more than 2 swipes from the contact you need. Takes about half the time it does in Android.

Anyways, people need to get over their complete and utter hate of everything that is Microsoft simply because it is Microsoft. It's just like racism but with companies. Haha!

If you don't like Microsoft, don't buy (or use**) their products. Simple as that. That's a louder statement than any other you can possibly make to them. There are lots of alternatives out there. Try them out and enjoy a Microsoft-free life.

** Had to include the "or use" statement since many people don't actually buy Microsoft software, they just pirate their software and then complain about it as if they had ACTUALLY wasted their money on it.*** Seriously, grow up. Haha!

*** Not saying anything against pirating or the people who do (;)), just don't act like you ACTUALLY paid for it and like you've really lost something. That's all.