I'm sorry, but I don't think it's a reasonable shot to call them out for not tracking their CEO. If it were planned to use him as a demo, sure, but I don't think ANY company in the world would track the location of their CEO, and I don't think any non-journalistic/antagonizing perspectives would expect them to "Eat their own dog food" in this case.
My thought is that at this point, Microsoft should bite the bullet and support Android. They could spend significantly less to convert some of the nicer elements of WP7 to apps, and go full time into supporting their apps across the fragmented minefield that is Android. It would put the Microsoft name in Android, giving the OS a further leg up over Apple, on top of likely creating some decent profit from app sales (I'm pretty sure everyone and their brother would pay a couple to several bucks for an official MS Office with support for Android).
Unless they really do something radical that gets the attention of the entire world, and manages to put them two steps ahead of Google and Apple, there is absolutely no way they can sustain. Are there some elements of profit involved I'm not aware of that may be a significant factor? I just can't see holding an insignificant percentage of the smartphone market and coming out of it profitably.
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I'm sorry, but I don't think it's a reasonable shot to call them out for not tracking their CEO. If it were planned to use him as a demo, sure, but I don't think ANY company in the world would track the location of their CEO, and I don't think any non-journalistic/antagonizing perspectives would expect them to "Eat their own dog food" in this case.
My thought is that at this point, Microsoft should bite the bullet and support Android. They could spend significantly less to convert some of the nicer elements of WP7 to apps, and go full time into supporting their apps across the fragmented minefield that is Android. It would put the Microsoft name in Android, giving the OS a further leg up over Apple, on top of likely creating some decent profit from app sales (I'm pretty sure everyone and their brother would pay a couple to several bucks for an official MS Office with support for Android). Unless they really do something radical that gets the attention of the entire world, and manages to put them two steps ahead of Google and Apple, there is absolutely no way they can sustain. Are there some elements of profit involved I'm not aware of that may be a significant factor? I just can't see holding an insignificant percentage of the smartphone market and coming out of it profitably.