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Originally Posted by itster
Those of you that think MS takes the market back, you better think again because MS went into the smartphone business with palm holding almost 90% of the market and took it over quickly.
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That statement is a contradiction....you meant to say "those of you that don't think MS takes the market back"?
If so..don't compare fighting Palm at an early stage to fighting off Google and Apple...thats like saying..hey I took over a fortress alone against butterflies....now watch me go it alone against dragons....not to mention, entering in new gives you an "underdog" advantage...re-branding yourself is a lot harder...there will be people who used winmo and didn't like it and won't bother even trying wp7...
Not to mention this time they are going in without Verizon in the initial launch...
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those of you that point out the kin: the reason the Kin failed is because verizon was charging the smartphone $30 fee on top of this device if you wanted it. Smart parents would not pay $30 for that device and ultimately it failed. I blame MS because they should have know better than to launch this device on verizon network instead of T-Mobile and/or sprint because of their price points. the kin would have been very successful as were the sidekicks were when they lanched only on t-mobile.
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Reason kin failed was because there were people in M$ that wanted it to fail...specifically the guy who is in charge of making WP7 was jealous of the kin and did everything to prevent it from succeeding...