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Originally Posted by richwhite View Post
I don't really get the purpose of the focus on WP7 sales - it's been out a matter of months and is still in its first incarnation, excluding the copy/paste update because that didn't do much of anything. If you look at the numbers for Android's first quarter no one would have suggested it'd be this big, nor would Symbian's numbers 2 years ago suggest they'd be this low now. We need to give things time to take ahold in the market, notwithstanding the fact that most people are on contracts, and given most contracts are 18-24 months, an accurate picture of consumer interest won't be derived 6 months after release. And quite frankly, i would expect Q2 and Q3 sales to be pretty bad, because i imagine most WP7 fans will want the Nokia ones for the superior hardware and the distinct possibility they'll be getting extra features that HTC and Samsung won't. Put another way: if i had the choice of HTC, Samsung, Dell and Nokia all running the exact same software, i'd choose Nokia every time.
First off, because it's not a first incarnation. Windows Mobile has been around since April 19, 2000; 11 years ago (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile) and has been crippled inexplicably along the way--a lot this last time around--and hasn't made a lot of fans along the way. Windows Phone 7 is only the latest in a series of the same line and it's doing terribly compared to its competition who had FAR less time to make a mobile OS and grow them.

Nokia, similarly, has been churning out phones for a long time now.. and their latest incarnations are failing to live up to expectations and sales compared to relative newcomers.
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