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Did the Windows Phone 7 Bomb In the US?
Thorfinn.au writes "Microsoft's new smartphone platform is off to what could be considered a slower start than expected in North America. That's according to The Street, which has released a report saying that the company sold some 40,000 units on its first day on the market.
Early sales numbers from other phone platform launches include Apple's estimated 500,000 iPhones being snatched up during its launch weekend in 2007, and a million and a half G1 Android phones being bought up by T-Mobile subscribers in the phone's first six months." Do you know anyone with one of these phones? Me either.
TMobile sold out of the HTC HD2 within hours of launch. What more do you want?
WP7 looks promising, but it's not going to make people cancel contracts to jump over to AT&T or TMo to switch to the platform. I'm guessing you'll see slow adoption over the course of the next year as contracts are expiring. I think most people are taking a "wait and see" approach to WP7.
I will say this, next year when I'm in the market for a phone, it will probably be down to a WP7 phone or whatever Palm/HP has cooking up. I love WebOS, but I also love my Zune and the idea of a phone that expands on what the Zune HD has been doing is really appealing to me.
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You better bring something that no one else has.
If M$ is true to form, you can expect WP7 phones to synchronise better with Outlook and the user's desktop IE. Things will just work better between the WP7 and Windoze 7 on the desktop. Exchanging pictures, music, videos, etc. will all just work right with WP7 phones and other phones will either not get it right or it won't work at all. Things like DRM sharing will work between WP7 phones and the user's desktop but won't work for anyone else's phone.
This is the same strategy M$ used to drive out the competitors to M$ office. One way of offering a better product is to sabotage your competitor's products. This is one thing that M$ does well.
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Dave
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I doubt the moderators actually disagreed. Rather, they saw that what I said was evidently true, and didn't want reality to interfere with a good Microsoft-bashing.
And one of the many faults of capitalism is that those with a ton of money can do the stupidest shit and still come out okay.
How is that a "fault" of capitalism? Seems ok to me, since that "ton" of money goes directly into other people's pockets...
You don't have to produce commercially VIABLE products to improve the economic situation of the people as a whole.
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The iPhone sold 500k units in 3 days. That breaks down to 166k per day.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9738446-7.html#ixzz14zYv3Wik
Is that better for you?
Moron.
Uhh ohh we can bash Microsoft, lets flood the page! The new Phone gets good reviews everywhere, and not without reason. It's an overall good os. It would be loved by Slashdot. But it's Microsoft => Bash it to hell. Great work, as usual.
When you do this you get worse than iOS. iOS is bloated and slow from being refined down from a full OS. Windows Mobile 6 gets alot of flack, but at least it could run on under 64MB of RAM and still multi-task.
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