Thread: UPDATE: "1st post" Nokia's Flagship Lumia 900 obsolete in less than a year? ELOP RESPONDS
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gerbick
2012-06-20 , 22:18
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Originally Posted by Bernard View Post
A similar sentiment is on gizmodo.
And when you look at the future windows platform i think you are right, Microsoft has to do it this way.
It's the way that Nokia basically did with Maemo. Each major iteration of their OS basically was applicable to only one iteration of their hardware.

However, I do not agree with it since lately, iOS and Android (for some devices, not all) have all enjoyed major OS updates past the initial release.

But in the short term microsoft almost has to start from scratch because of this reset. In the short term this will slow-down the growth of the ecosystem. High-end phone customers will wait for the WP8 devices, and developers will focus on the functions that are also in the low-end WP7 devices, since those are in use.
By the time WP8 comes out, dual core is no longer high end. In fact, the decisions around the innards of the Lumia 900 seem to show that Nokia went with the Microsoft standard hardware requirements, didn't differentiate themselves from other WP7 devices and ultimately have created a situation where the so-called millions of Lumia 900 purchases are now left without an update.

The Lumia 900 now feels just like the N9, N900, N810 and 770... released and left to die on the vine.

At least Samsung has done a better job than that in that one regard - updates. The communities surrounding those devices are offering fully functioning ROMS that make calls, send/receive messages and can install updated software via Google's Android store. Cannot say the same for

Microsoft is betting that the entire Windows 8 ecosystem will explode in size because of simultaneous phone, tablet and desktop launches.
I fear all three will have extremely slow adoption because of the size of the change and hardware prices.
Agree. It's going to take more than Office 2013, Visual Studio being Metro UI only to push folks to Win8, Win8 RT and WP8.

I also think that application development will remain very much separate for tablet, phone and desktop even with the shared metro interface.
Agree here too.

But I could be wrong
I've made a career out of being wrong.
 

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