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Does Microsoft Finally Have a Phone Worth Buying?
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has finally shown 'Windows Phone 7 Series' and it's supposed to be a completely new smartphone OS. A phone from Microsoft to get excited about that is going to work properly and take on the iPhone's world domination? "
I may not have a clue what is required to compete in the phone market. But, I'll offer you a wager. I'm willing to bet that at the end of 2012, MS hasn't captured any appreciable mobile phone market. "Appreciable" meaning 10% or greater than they already have.
Have you turned on a free broadcast television channel lately? Seen any stupid Microsoft commercials? They are a little bit interesting, if you give them any thought. A decade ago, MS didn't buy much, if any, television airtime. Or, radio, for that matter. They relied on other advertising media that were cheaper by orders of magnitude. You can reach a lot of geeks in a Geek Today magazine, at a price that MS would call "petty cash". Today, they are spending significantly more money on advertising. Why?
Could it be that their market is being eroded?
No, I don't really know what it takes to compete in a global market, be it phones, operating systems, applications, whatever. But, I'm smart enough to read obvious indicators, like the bombardment of advertising coming from Redmond.
I'm also smart enough to notice that Windows Mobile isn't going anywhere real fast.
To be perfectly honest - Microsoft has seen it's best days, and they are not the innovative* company that they once seemed to be.
Now - please explain how it is so obvious to you that I don't understand what it takes to compete, based on the fact that I'm doing some compiling, on a FreeBSD platform? Does that fact somehow reveal the full depth, width, and thoroughness of my education and experience, or, you're just taking potshots at someone and something that you don't like?
*innovative would encompass the old "Embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy, of course.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br