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Originally Posted by richwhite View Post
Doesn't mean jack. Unlike comparing S^3 to S^1, WP7 and WinMo are entirely different beasts. In fact, it's much more like comparing Maemo 5 and Symbian. The only similarity with WP7 and WinMo is MS being the creator; WP7 is a whole new OS, built from the ground up, with a vastly different interface and way of navigation. I used WinMo, it was so bad i used it only for a week and WP7 has already been a month. WinMo tried to be Windows on a phone, WP7 is a phone OS made by MS. So yes, it is the first incarnation of this OS.

Nokia, you're right, but what does that have to do with anything? And a large part of that is the rise of American software with iOS and Android, a part of the world where Nokia never had much presence. With iOS and Android came the American bloggers raving about it, and slamming Symbian was par the course because it was simply never big there. Nokia didn't help themselves with a total lack of advertising and telling consumers what the devices did and still do that others don't. But my fiancee certainly isn't the first person to leave the iPhone for an N8 and see what she's been missing feature-wise.Although my first question remains, what does Nokia's underachievement in sales have to do with WP7 not steaming out the gates within its first 6 months? These things all take time.
Clearly, we don't agree on how to interpret this information and the validity of these comparisons. I'm simply taking the interpretation that many in the industry are interpreting from the longstanding history of these lines of products. Trying to re-re-interpret the data doesn't seem to make a difference in this case. Windows Phone 7 is a failing platform by any standard--even comparing it to Android's earliest forays with the G1 and Apple's first forays into the 1st gen iPhone and even RIM's first blackberries.

Granted, as you admit yourself, Nokia never could understand how to penetrate the American market. The problem for Nokia now is that the American market is easily making in-roads to the markets that Nokia used to understand. It would seem that Nokia's niche markets are becoming far less loyal to Nokia than they expected and the less-than-enthuastic roll-outs are making it that much easier for others to come in and win the loyalty over to their brands.

Arguing that your fiancee dumped an iPhone for an N8, by the way... classy debate kills, lad! Classy! Ever heard of "anecdotal evidence?" I'm sure she's no the only, nor the last, to do that but based on these numbers she's far and away in a statistic minority.

Putting these two together isn't really a winning combination.
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