Its too early to say it bombed, 3 day Android sale was 100,000 so a first day sale of 40,000 (even if it may not be correct) is actually a good sale. Lets wait for official numbers.
I have the Samsung Focus WP7 device, and would recommend folks to play with it for 10minutes before making any opinions. It may be difficult to point single most differentiating factor, but overall it has a much better experience than iPhone or Android. The future updates will close all the minor issues, same like iPhone and Android
For me -
1) UI is very unique to both Android and iPhone, instead of a crowded grid lock.. and application oriented UI.. the UI is activity oriented. The most common things are single click away, and well implemented. The concept of Tiles and scrolling Pivots is very functional. e.g. Emails are pre-grouped under pivots for Urgent, Unread, etc. so just a quick swipe and you have a filtered view. This is consistent across all applications. Enterprise users will like it, once they get past the bad memories of earlier versions.. this is a totally new experience
2) Phone is snappy, the hardware acceleration works well. The roll-over effect, and touch distortion of text is very nice.
3) Instead of jumping in and out of applications, the tiles bring together common activities. Click on people hub, and you have updates from Outlook, Live, Facebook accessible at a glance. Same with Pictures hub, or the music hub. It is very functional and clean
4) Comparing no. of applications in 1st week is not a good way to judge future numbers. But even still, with 2000 application in 1st week is better than what Android or iPhone had. The core applications are already in, or about to be in coming months. The toolset and large no. of developers will ensure that.
5) Instead of predicting WP7 future, based on hate make your own opinion after using it. The platform is too good to die, on the contrary it will be one of the top 3 with iPhone and Android for sure
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Its too early to say it bombed, 3 day Android sale was 100,000 so a first day sale of 40,000 (even if it may not be correct) is actually a good sale. Lets wait for official numbers. I have the Samsung Focus WP7 device, and would recommend folks to play with it for 10minutes before making any opinions. It may be difficult to point single most differentiating factor, but overall it has a much better experience than iPhone or Android. The future updates will close all the minor issues, same like iPhone and Android For me - 1) UI is very unique to both Android and iPhone, instead of a crowded grid lock.. and application oriented UI.. the UI is activity oriented. The most common things are single click away, and well implemented. The concept of Tiles and scrolling Pivots is very functional. e.g. Emails are pre-grouped under pivots for Urgent, Unread, etc. so just a quick swipe and you have a filtered view. This is consistent across all applications. Enterprise users will like it, once they get past the bad memories of earlier versions.. this is a totally new experience 2) Phone is snappy, the hardware acceleration works well. The roll-over effect, and touch distortion of text is very nice. 3) Instead of jumping in and out of applications, the tiles bring together common activities. Click on people hub, and you have updates from Outlook, Live, Facebook accessible at a glance. Same with Pictures hub, or the music hub. It is very functional and clean 4) Comparing no. of applications in 1st week is not a good way to judge future numbers. But even still, with 2000 application in 1st week is better than what Android or iPhone had. The core applications are already in, or about to be in coming months. The toolset and large no. of developers will ensure that. 5) Instead of predicting WP7 future, based on hate make your own opinion after using it. The platform is too good to die, on the contrary it will be one of the top 3 with iPhone and Android for sure