Lame Pocket PC.

I can't believe how lame Pocket PC is compared to Palm. I just achieved high level of frustration doing a very simple thing and need to vent a bit. So here it goes...

All I wanted to do was to listen to some mp3 on my iPAQ with 256 MB CF card. That's going to be a piece of cake, I say to myself. I copy my mp3s to CF card, insert the card, go to Windows media player and try to play them. Media player doesn't see them. So I go to file manager, click on the file in it, that switches me to Media Player... but it still doesn't play the audio. Hmm, I say to myself. After considerable intellectual exercise I have a vague impression that Pocket PC software usually doesn't see files unless they're in "My documents" folder (and my mp3s were in root directory). So I create "My documents" folder, move mp3s there, switch to Media Player. It still doesn't see them. I press random buttons and finally, I hear my mp3s being played. What a relief.
So I play it, pause in the middle and switch off my iPAQ. Then I turn it on and... Media Player flashes a few times as if confused and starts playing my mp3 from the beginning, not from the place where I paused it. For me it's a big freaking deal because the mp3 is not a 3 minutes song but a 43 minutes spoken audio. And of course there are no bookmarks so I can't even work-around software's idiocy. It's so bad that one wonders whether it was designed and programmed by 10 year olds or a multi-billion software company hiring the best of the best.

The only good thing one can say about Pocket PC is that Palms (with the exception of latest CLIEs) cannot play mp3s at all.