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Originally Posted by x10guy
I don't know how you take it out of context... Numbers are numbers.
Look, you are certainly entitled to your opinion... but it's not just a few of us on one tiny insignificant thread that are making this stuff up.
There are big industry publications, industry pundits and experts to.
Look, I'm not a MS hater. I 've used PPC for the last 7 years! I actually secretly hope you are right in being so "rosy" for Winmo... but I really believe you are in the minority.
Also you never responded concerning the "old" article that you posted. You have to admit that your assumption is based on data that is 18 months old
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No man, I'm not in the minority. Check the dividends MS is paying their shareholders because their performance consistently beats the quarterly estimates. The information you are reading is incredibly biased against MS, and that is why it seems like it's a fact known by a majority or something.
As for my numbers- you realize that the numbers you posted were citing a drop as compared to the numbers I posted- right? And the numbers I posted (record numbers, I might add) are from well within the products 2 year life cycle. So when you take it all into context, it all adds up to Windows Mobile added more customers than ever last year, and they continue to grow (though the growth has slowed as compared to last year).
I wonder what the growth would have looked like if all the carriers agreed to let current Windows Mobile users who still had more than a year left on their contract, all get a brand new device for $200 just because HTC released a hot new phone less than a year after they bought theirs. Again, that is what AT&T did with iPhone customers. They let them all get the new iPhone for $200- even though they had more than a year left on their current contracts from when they bought their current iPhone. AT&T later started requiring high priced data plans from all of their other smartphone customers to make up for the iPhone subsidy, which is why my GSM Touch Pro 2 is no longer being serviced and I have a Sprint Touch Pro 2 now.