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Re: Windows Phone 7... Doomed?
It is not doomed. It is very far from it in fact. Although many think that "everyone who wants a smartphone already has one", this is an extremely flawed perception. The growth of the smartphone market can be likened to the PC market of the 1980's or the internet of the 1990's. The majority of the users 5 years from now are fairly oblivious to the entire smartphone market now. I would go as far as to say that I would be surprised if "dumb phones" are even available in 5 years.
Smartphones are rapidly replacing home PC's. The entire smartphone revolution is still in it's infancy. MS is focusing on the time frame/market when the vast majority of web traffic is handheld based, where social networks such as facebook are much more than a method of looking up ex's but a common solution for searching and hiring employees, selling and buying products, etc.
I am not saying that there is no way that MS can fail, I am just saying it is highly unlikely[/end spock]. They are the pretty much the only game in desktop OS, with something like 80% of the market share. And they are fully, completely aware of the importance of portable computing. I fully believe that MS has the funds to do whatever it takes to make them a dominant player, if not the primary player, in mobile OS's. You don't dominate the entire digital age by not knowing what you are doing.
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