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Re: The keys to Windows Phone's Success

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Originally Posted by Musicman247 View Post
It makes me wonder if Microsoft waited so long to make Windows Mobile less known. Let me break down this theory.

-MS knows that Windows Mobile is losing popularity, so they decide to make a new OS (WM7).
-They know that Android is becoming what WinMo should have been, so they decide to go the iPhone route (it just works)
-WM6 is still being supported, but only in a limited way
-MS decides to try and start over with their mobile OS after their huge sucesses with Xbox and Windows 7, so they hang back and wait for Windows Mobile to be all but forgotten
-Release WP7 to an audience of people who know Xbox and Windows and market the phone not as Windows Phone 7, but just "the new Windows phone" hoping to draw in new customers rather than old
I mean this kinda makes sense.. but the thing is most people that have ever used winmo are still going to associate wp7 with it.