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#1877
Originally Posted by switch-hitter View Post
Why would anyone assume WP8 is going to be a success anyway? Wasn't Mango supposed to be a game changer before that came out? It's always the next iteration that's going to change everything isn't it?
I don't remember a product that had more support in the form of moving goalposts than the WP. Consequently, people who support Nokia's new strategy are doing it all over the interwebs as well - first it was "lets wait for the fall '11", then it turned to be "lets wait for the Q2/Q3 '12 results", now they are slowly shifting to "lets wait for Q4'12/Q1'13 results" but this time they mean it.

I'd bet you that even when Nokia gets broken and sold in pieces, or worse files for bankruptcy, they'd still be telling that the strategy was right, but Nokia just had a bad fortune... But the WP10 will going to rock the world!

I remember when we all laughed here at the famous `step 4 of 5` claptrap as an excuse for not fixing some minor, albeit very annoying bugs, on the N900. Now I long for those days - Nokia might have been slow but they at least delivered something, which cannot be said for Microsoft in the mobile space for the past 10 years. The way it looks, cell phone as a concept will die before Microsoft manages to create a competitive product. Too bad they've dragged down to the ditch a lot of companies that fell for their sweet talk, but the stupidity always comes with a steep price...
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