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Chinese Phone Maker ZTE Turns Down WP7

Posted by timothy on from the must-be-quaking-in-redmond dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Chinese smartphone maker ZTE, fifth largest in the world, has publicly criticized Microsoft for the lackluster market reaction to its Windows Phone 7 operating system and said that ZTE has no plans to develop a WP7-powered phone. That's bad news for Microsoft for its well-regarded but not well-received mobile OS."

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  1. Re:Microsoft's "Problem" by Anthony+Mouse · · Score: 5, Informative

    One thing you've got to remeber is, while you as a developer may love wp7 that means nothing at all to the people that buy phones.

    This is an excellent point. Microsoft is accustomed to having huge market share and trying to woo developers to their platforms (and away from other platforms) by making reasonable developer tools (which don't produce cross-platform binaries). In this case how easy it is to develop for WP7 is almost totally irrelevant right now, because developers aren't going to want to spend resources writing non-portable applications for WP7 if nobody is buying the phones.