Windows Mobile 6 Apps -
So here’s to the .cab files, the soft-reset pins, and the developers who crammed desktop-grade tools into 64MB of RAM. You were ugly, quirky, and wonderful. And I still miss my Today Screen. Would you like a follow-up focusing on the strangest or most ahead-of-its-time WM6 app you never heard of?
Here’s an interesting, slightly nostalgic piece on — a forgotten ecosystem that paved the way for modern smartphones in clunky, beautiful ways. When Apps Had Stylus Souls: A Eulogy for Windows Mobile 6 Before the iPhone turned every screen into a grid of glossy icons, and before Android made “app drawer” a household term, there was Windows Mobile 6. It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t intuitive. But by God, it had character — and its apps were weird, wonderful, and wildly ahead of their time. windows mobile 6 apps
Modern smartphones are frictionless. Windows Mobile 6 apps had friction — but that friction felt like mastery. So here’s to the
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Raphael
Hi !
very interesting reading all over your website.
I’m struggling here by wanting to install SoX on a Mac under 10.8.5 .
Gettin’ to cd sox-14.4.2 all works ok but then it says for “./configure” : “-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory”
(I did install XCode). Have you any hints to solve this ? Thank you, Raphael
Raphael
I’ve found my false path: I did download a binary as a .zip file thinking it’s the same content as the tar.gz as they show up with the exact same file size on http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/ . Now it’s working.
John
Glad it worked out!