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Originally Posted by brownhornet
All this going in circles and winmo sales are still dropping while droid and iphone are having record setting quarters. Spin it how you want but winmo is the least desired smartphone right now and that wont change. Wait until iphone goes unexclusive with at&t and it will get even worse.
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Again, not true. The Touch Pro 2 is the hottest business device on the market right now, and I already posted a link that proves this. The Verizon version was sold out for like 2 months straight, lol.
A main reason the iPhone is selling so much is because AT&T (the only place you can get them) was practically giving them away. I'm sure I can find some articles to prove it if need be. But when the iPhone 3GS was released, all the current iPhone owners were upset because they didn't qualify for the subsidy- because their current iPhone 3G was only 1 year old. AT&T ended up caving to them and giving them the $200 new customer price. So, of course everyone that owned an iPhone forked out the $200 and bought the new and improved model.
That same thing is going to happen with Windows Mobile users next year when all of the record setting Windows Mobile purchasers from 2008 are eligible for a new device subsidy- at the same time the new OS (WM 7) is released with hot new hardware running it.
All of those customers from 2008 haven't gone anywhere. The vast majority of them are still running Windows Mobile devices. So Windows Mobile actually has more users out there right now than ever before. Especially when you consider that right now the Touch Pro 2 is the hottest business device on the market, a year after Windows Mobile had its best year ever.
Again- all you doom and gloom people- show me just ONE profesional business or investment analyst who published an article sharing your opinion. I don't care about the tech blogs. Those guys writing them are not qualified to say if MS is struggling, or anything about the business side of things. Their qualification begins and ends with telling us which platform they like best and why. They are certainly not even pretending to be experts on the business or investment side of things though. Yet here we have everyone taking their comments and trying to use them in a business or investment manner.
If you think Windows Mobile is in trouble, I need more than some blogger saying he likes the iPhone better. And I need more than this year's sales being lower than last year's record setting sales.
Everything is going according to the plan Microsoft laid out over a year ago when they announced the delay of WM 7.