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Originally Posted by keflex View Post
But we haven't got at the core of why they are choosing alternate OS'. I would think there's two real factors at play:

- Lack of carrier support/support from salespeople within carrier stores
- Lack of new devices

Do either of those show great macromanagement on behalf of Microsoft? Not really. But they do mean that it's probably not really worth rating the sales data until Mango comes along with new devices in tow and bridges the service gap that currently exists between WP7 & its competitors. How was Android's first year again?

Honestly son the door is right there, if you want to walk through it at any time I won't laugh too hard.
Firstly i would say Symbian didn't really fail in the past, it was actually quite successful until ios and and later android came along. Symbian's demise is due to the fact it seemed to be an engineering struggle to advance it yet remain compatible with legacy stuff. The old dog was struggling to do new tricks. People are still waiting for anna, just to get a portrait keyboard for example.

Lack of carrier support is due to one thing and one thing only. Lack of sales. If your **** sells plenty, carriers will jump at it

Lack of devices? Heh, symbian has many. iPhone has one.

I would repeat again, Nokia's sales strategy did not bode well with the US carrier driven business. When they tried to adjust, it was too late, symbian was already outdated, noone wanted it, so neither did carriers.

Had Nokia finish maemo/meego harmattan whatever, when android had it's 1.6 and adjusted their strategy for the main smarthphone markets like US and UK to offer subsidized phones at different price ranges, they would've been where Android is right now. They were just too slow. Too much red tape.

This is one thing i like about Elop, he has severed so much red tape, that things are actually being done. Will his WP7 strategy workout? i dunno. But from reading many other palces, people are ITCHING to get WP7 mango on Nokia, as much as we here are itching to get n9
 

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