Again...
If this flies like their other versions of 'Windows phones', this will land with a thud...
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Again...
If this flies like their other versions of 'Windows phones', this will land with a thud...
Competition is always good. I am curious to see how they attract developers to the platform. With so many phones to develop it is going to be really hard for developers cover the gambit of screen sizes, resolutions and processor specs.
Welcome to the fight...
Welcome to the fight...
Let the Smartphone wars begin!!!
I think this is great... The more competition the better! We will see IF, MS can catch Apple in market share with their business model. Competition is good for everyone!
I think this is great... The more competition the better! We will see IF, MS can catch Apple in market share with their business model. Competition is good for everyone!
Very late to the game ... but competition is competition, hopefully we get some innovative minds working, get some new ideas going.
Sure, I remember the innovative devices "competition" offered us before the iPhone existed...
But the relevant question is: where is the Kin?
Ballmer has survived quite a few face plants so far that would have unseated many other CEO's...
I'm wondering if his driving the company into the ditch is a ploy to get the EU, etc, to back off them... Maybe if Microsoft is on the ropes hard enough, they will lose interest? Don't know...
I was thinking the same thing.
I still wouldn't mind having something more than the date/time on my iPhone lock screen (without jailbreaking). I don't see why that is a big deal for apple to allow.
You mean without Apple we would not have what we have today.
With lots of competition in the cell phone and smart phone market, we had tons of crappy cell phones and smart phones.
Competition was accomplishing nothing.
Then Apple introduced the iPhone and everything changed. Now every smart phone looks like an iPhone, before none of them did.
Don't give competition too much credit. In the case of phones and smartphones it has delivered very poorly.
Sure Smartphone Wars.
It's like Apple is the U.S.
Google Android is like the U.S.S.R. - Google TV will be their Chernobyl.
And M$ is like the U.K. - They used to rule the world, but now they're just the small island that is slowly losing relevance.
Wow, I just went to Microsoft.com and not one mention of the phone there. I mean when apple launches a new product it's plastered all over the homepage.
I do agree with the people that have been saying too many handsets.
The phone looks efficient, I think it has some good ideas. It just looks ugly to me, the OS.
The phone looks efficient, I think it has some good ideas. It just looks ugly to me, the OS.
I could see Office and XBox fans going for this; simply for the integration.
I can see businesses going for this for enterprise mobile app development.
I wouldn't underestimate the potential of this platform in the enterprise where Microsoft, Windows, Office, and Visual Studio already dominate.
Actually all these phones are very similar and are spec wise not what we would expect from high end devices. Especially the HD7 is almost identical to the HD2. If I still had my HD2 I would be very angry for not getting an official upgrade for Windows Phone 7. The OS is actually not bad, it has some nice touches but must also needs to mature. Microsoft could succeed in mobile space, but first they have to create (or one of their partners) a device that everybody would love to have. I don't see such a device among the ones that we saw today. I found all of them really boring.
I would just wait and see apple fanboys. It may offer something new, which in turn will force apple (and google) to innovate more which is a great thing
Don't be so quick to judge, I mean Microsoft did make the xbox 360 which is a major hit with no viruses.
Apple even acknowledges Microsoft as it capitalizes it's name on the iPhone.
Don't be so quick to judge, I mean Microsoft did make the xbox 360 which is a major hit with no viruses.
Apple even acknowledges Microsoft as it capitalizes it's name on the iPhone.
The picture looks like ballmer's underarms are sweating..... Idk... I keep thinking of that picture were he sweats a lot!
Sure HTC and Droid and now M$ home screens innovativeness vs. HDR, AirPlay, etc.
Have you used the music player on an Android device. You scroll down to the artist you want to listen to, carrot over to their albums, carrot over into an album to the list of songs. Want to swipe back to the list of albums. Oh wait, can't. Gotta use this physcial and small return button. Everything Android when you get deep enough, you must press a button to go back a level. No swiping. Please!!!! It's a joke.
It seems if the entire value proposition of their new phones is that they have a dashboard then they have a pretty tough row to hoe. The phones definitely look interesting, but they really, really, REALLY need to get someone with some marketing sense over there. The ad's, once again, are ridiculous. They are like my son, he knows what he wants to say, and it may be a brilliant idea, but when the words come out of his mouth, you just go "what?". As parents we can wade through it and get to the gist, as consumers, we are not willing to do so with so many other options out there.
That said, personally I think they should take a page from Apple's book. Focus on your strengths, your existing "ecosphere". They are sorta doing it with the xbox integration, but absolutely turn your phone into the ultimate office integration device. In this way you skirt around Apple's consumer focus and take someone who is weakening (RIMM) head on and there is tons of marketshare out there. Establish yourself in the corp. world and work towards the consumer. Going headlong against Apple/Google is simply going to get you bloodied and a lot poorer.
And again, fire your ad agency, they're not helping man, they're only hurting you.
That said, personally I think they should take a page from Apple's book. Focus on your strengths, your existing "ecosphere". They are sorta doing it with the xbox integration, but absolutely turn your phone into the ultimate office integration device. In this way you skirt around Apple's consumer focus and take someone who is weakening (RIMM) head on and there is tons of marketshare out there. Establish yourself in the corp. world and work towards the consumer. Going headlong against Apple/Google is simply going to get you bloodied and a lot poorer.
And again, fire your ad agency, they're not helping man, they're only hurting you.
Oh, great! It rearranges itself all the time? I'll never find anything! Wait, there's only 86 apps, shouldn't be too bad.
The handsets look very nice, and the OS is a fresh take on mobile computing, as opposed to being another iOS clone. I don't think WP7 will do well in the marketplace, but I applaud Microsoft for doing something different.
The comment I was waiting for! It's too bad most of these comments dismiss it on the spot because it's not Apple
Oh, great! It rearranges itself all the time? I'll never find anything! Wait, there's only 86 apps, shouldn't be too bad.
Microsoft is limiting the number of Apps to 2k at launch I believe. They are making it sort of a first come first serve approval process and there is a queue.
