Well most of the major Apps everyone wants are in the WP7 marketplace. It might not have all the little ones but does not change the fact most of the popular ones everyone is across all the platforms. In terms of noise WP7 marketplace has a lot less noise than Apple's App Store and Android Marketplace.
Then the Fail must be coming from somewhere else on this Zune: Reloaded platform.
What are you talking about. I was not talking about consumers. Only you can twist that fact.
Exactly. You weren't talking about the element that actually matters. Like with a lot of what you post.
MS is going to be in the market for the long haul and chances are it will gain marketshare.
When will the "chances are" stuff happen? Always waiting with MS . . . soon . . . they promise. No, really, they do. LOL
People called them stupid for making a video game counsel and breaking into that market and yet they did and now it is starting to do fairly well.
These aren't videogames. And notice that the only consumer product of theirs that's doing "fairly well" (aside form what is universally licensed, which doesn't count) is the one *without* any Windows branding on it, and has little to nothing to do with Windows.
Well, actually thats's not true. The Zune, Kin . . . and whatever else. In fact, with MS, nothing is a guarantee. It's just more and more attempts to throw money a something that someone else has already done better.
Windows is a broken brand, anyway.
How long will you keep using Xbox as an example? We keep pointing back to the Xbox each time MS screws themselves. I suspect we'll still be doing it a year from now.
To think that WP7 is a short term investment is stupid at best. It is going to be a long term project.
Prolonging the pain. MS is great at that. It certainly isn't beyond them to f up a "long-term" premiere project. MS hangs on to waste like grim death. Unfortunately (or not, depending on your perspective), in this new market reality you have to be awesome from Day 1.
But since you are going by sell numbers then Windows 7 is a hell of a lot better than OSX because it sold more copies.
Except for one detail you missed: universal licensing. Not impressive. PC sales are stagnant. Apple's closed system, however, sells like hotcakes. And the entry fee is $1000.
Hell Vista and XP both would be better by that argument. And we know at least for Vista and XP that is far from the truth.
I'm not sure whether you think they're both better or whether you just negated your own argument.
We all know why Windows sells on PeeCee boxes.