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Originally Posted by p-slim
Seriously, with those 3 missing its ludacris. They might as well just build 1 or 2 phone like the iPhone and call it the windows phone. With these stats I don't see a reason for multiple providers with so many lockdowns on the device hardware. What there going to have the option to change the screen size, amount of memory, and color and that's the options we have to work with. That's why Microsoft isn't backing HTC in their lawsuit like Google is.
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Actually the lawsuit is for HTC Android phones only, not HTC WM phones...I mean Apple does not even see WM as a threat..their sights are on Android.
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I mean look at it this way, M$ is releasing their OS end of this year which is trying to exactly mimic the iPhone strategy from years ago...I mean is their heads not working properly?
I can easily see microsoft dieing out for the following reasons.
1) Their tech community feels abandoned so many are swapping to android as they do not expect many new phones for wm.
2) They are entering the game late with last years ideas and all they are selling is their "revolutionary" UI which could probably easily be skinned into wm6.5 or android and with a snapdragon have no problems running it.(with tweaks of course)
3) Now lets look at their support manufacturers:
Dell = They have yet to release a phone...at least in US
Garmin-Asus = I doubt
HTC = Sure but I can more see them going towards android as it makes up their main community
HP = They have yet to release a phone...
LG = This is probably M$ only hope..if they bail thats it for M$
Samsung = Sure they may release a phone but they have their Bada platform too so where would their real focus be...not to mention their cortex was not approved so they may not be happy about that.
Sony Ericsson = They make their own touch screen phones? lol
Toshiba = Yeh they released a phone or 2..but have no presence in the US
Qualcomm = They don't make phone but ok
4) The price tag of those phones will be pretty darn high if I were to guess
So there goes M$