What president of the Dutch Pocket-pc club thinks about msmobiles.com
A quote follows.
Concerning MSMobiles:
We do not work in the journalistic way as MSMobiles does. We do not publish that type internal matter absolutely. I have been myself 10 years journalist and I have been educated with saint credo: "we cover the news, we are not it". A beautiful motto where I stick also still to. In the short term bringing early products seems nice. In the short term it seems cool to publish such a early product with photograph, screenshots and hyperlinks to a rom. But in the short term you help your site to hell. Governing board and admins affect stressed, costs a lot off time and critical people burn up. Not really a basis for success. Personally I think that we are not availed also with a hostile relation with HP, Microsoft or other players. Parties such as MSMobiles are the enfent terrible of the pocketPC world. Absolutely no player will lend him devices for reviews. Nobody will tell him news. Not something where you are waiting for as community.
In our defense we can say that msmobiles.com is truly unique website with the motto "nobody else gives you the whole story" not with the motto "we cover the news, we are not it" that Jaap van Ekris would like to patronizingly teach us. Nobody from msmobiles.com will ever get MVP title - just because we are independent from Microsoft and we write things that Microsoft and others don't like but things that readers have to know in order to take informed buying decisions. As you can see here msmobiles.com has very big web traffic - Alexa Page Ranking of 16037 what is the best result among all Windows Mobile websites. Still Microsoft refuses to give MVP titles to us. We are therefore reinforced in our conviction that telling the whole truth is more important that catering for needs of Microsoft or some specific Microsoft partners. While we may be totally biased in the sense of our strong pro-Microsoft stance, we are however totally impartial in the area of Microsoft powered phones. We will not change our strategy: giving the whole story to readers, not just some pro-Microsoft marketing-talk-like information bits. Thanks to this strategy readers can be sure that only msmobiles.com will show all sides of given story - quite contrary to some websites that prefer to present only positive things and leave out negative things. The criticism from Jaap van Ekris therefore misses the point and we advise him to cooperate with us - by sending us news and stories - rather than by criticizing fellow fans of Windows Mobile!
