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One more thing I wanted to add. I'm not against devices having lots of great options for different consumers. What I am against is badly written device drivers and add-ons from companies like HTC that replace system components and then break a whole lot of stuff. I am for Microsoft having a heavier hand in making devices meet a standard. If WinMobile is not a standard, then what's the point.

When HTC wrote TouchFlo, they should have made sure it followed the same expandability rules of the Today screen - that it uses the default PIM - not a hardcoded PIM. Or the Default music app. Or - I can go on. Motorola did a good job with that on the Q9h with its keyboard.

Its not HTC really at fault (though the poor HTC Diamond reviews shows that while their hardware acumen is high their software ability is poor), but Microsoft's for not striving to make Windows Mobile a real standard.

I talked to a Verizon admin guy a while ago and he told me that one major reason (besides others that we are all aware of) that phones ship with stripped software features is that many times the software features are buggy and unreliable. He told me flat out that HTC was the worst at this he has ever seen. I'm not trying to point fingers at HTC here - but they do make the vast majority of these devices and they are the ones that I can point out more easily.

On a more positive note I hear through the grapevine that Microsoft hears the issues. I just don't know if they are willing to do anything about it.