Thread: Nokia Dumping Lumia 800's
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gerbick
2012-10-10 , 02:42
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Originally Posted by specc View Post
You missed the point.
No. You've missed each and every point made by any sane person at this forum. But continue with your blinder-enabled rant...

At this hour the price cut looks looser-ish, but that's only due to WP8 coming. A non-geek (normal person) will not see any difference between WP7.8 and WP8.
Patently wrong. The moment a WP8 only game/application/feature comes out, the uninformed will know because they won't have it.
"Why doesn't that game work on my phone?"
"Because it's for phones with Retina DisplayŽ only."
"Why doesn't my phone have a retainer display?"
"Because your phone wasn't sold with it..."
The above conversation actually happened at an AT&T store and dude only had the original iPhone when asking about certain things and why he didn't have it. Even the uneducated understand the word "no".

Please don't make me wrong.

To be honest there aren't much difference.
Again, wrong. I could list a whole bunch of nerdy/geeky reasons, but I'll just list one that makes the most sense... it means a phone less than a year old has no support from a software company that goes by the name of Microsoft. The developers - I'm actually one - have been goaded to produce only WP8 applications and worry less about the WP7. Same for Windows 8 versus Windows 7 (although not as explicit).

All the goodies are there (in WP7.8) thanks to Nokia.
List the goodies. Please. I double dog dare you.

The difference is purely academic at this point in time.
List out the differences. Please. I triple dog dare you.

A year from now the situation will be different of course, and the WP7.8 Lumias will start to fall behind.
Good money states it will be less than a year. It took less than a year between the very 1st gen to 1.5 gen (previously labeled 2nd gen) WP7 phones to stop getting certain things like updates, certain games, et al.

By that time the 800 is already two years old...
And already dumped 1 year into its lifespan. Only the N900 and N9 can claim that.

Oh wait...

The main point is that every WP phone sold, is one less Android/iOS sold.
Arguable. But that's a very bad mindset. Because in 12-18 months, they will be looking at their replacement. And guess what?

Microsoft left them high and dry way early in their contract. Why would they go back to that abuse? You'd have to be something like... a Maemo fan to continue down that short lifespan support abuse.

Oh wait...

I said the same thing half a year ago, the Lumias must be priced much cheaper if they are to be competitive.
And they weren't. Now they're priced where they will sell. At the very end of their life cycle. That's rather C-A-T smart.

There exist a void right now, a void that WP will fill.
Nope. The next version of iOS/Android or even BlackBerry will fill that void. WP8 is not an option for 97% of the rest of us. And that's pretty damn sad it cannot even appeal to a fringe group like Maemo/MeeGo folks.