What does Google Talk Portend for WM?

My son likes to IM with me using Google Talk as his chat client of choice for some reason. I prefer Windows Live myself, but I accommodate him. At least I did until today. I hadn’t given it much thought, but I was going to be away from my desktop and thought I’d download Google Talk for my WM Pro device. That should be no big deal. I already have Gmail on it, and it’s pretty slick. To my ever-lasting horror, there was no Google Talk for WM. But, as unbelievable as it may seem, it is available for iPhones! Yes, I know that there are some third party applications that will allow you to do Gmail on WM, but shame on Google.

Wow, is this a sign of the times or what? Until now, I was always amused with iPhonies having to make do and play catch up with a dearth of applications. That as powerful an entity as Google would choose to make one of its applications available to iPhones before the Windows Mobile platform is unthinkable.

Is this is a portend of the future, and WM users are going to have to play catch up to the iPhone platform? I don’t know what this world is coming to. It could be we’ll just have to get used to it. Come to think of it, Windows Mobile developers are scurrying to make their applications finger friendly in the iPhone fashion. So, maybe this is a good thing with iPhone helping to raise the bar with innovative technology and a little healthy competition.

However, I’m not ready to switch yet. There are still just too many things you can’t do on an iPhone to make we want one yet.