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gerbick
2011-06-07 , 22:37
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Originally Posted by
abill_uk
I still want to know what the 2 wrongs are !
Microsoft's sales of WP7 have been far less than stellar. It has not created a buzz with many people, developers nor has it earned itself a spot as one of the initial 3 OS's when you talk about mobile phone OS's. As it stands right now, it's still a baby and an oddity.
Nokia has not really gone far in terms of introducing anything that was not Symbian based since February 2010 - the same month they announced their movement to MeeGo (later rescinded) or the announcement to move to WP7 in February 2011. It's now June 2011 and neither a MeeGo, Harmattan or WP7 device has been released by Nokia.
So on one hand, you have a company with a new mobile OS (WP7) that's not selling well. It's been all but panned so far by AT&T, it was late to hit Verizon, and I'm willing to bet that no overseas carriers are even concerned with it thus far. That's one wrong.
On the other hand, you have a company that has announced two different OS strategies in the last 18 months and so far, they've only seen their market share drop to something not seen since 1997 and have yet to produce one new OS, be it any of the aforementioned, derived device(s) as of yet. That's the other wrong.
Now let's put them together. Low selling WP7 + lack of releases = two wrongs. There's nothing right in that equation.
Savvy?
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