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Originally Posted by jessiethe3rd
When Microsoft says they are in it for the "race" and not the sprint (no pun  ) you know you are in trouble. They will wear your a$$ down like a river rock. They do not quit and the do not stop. Just ask Sony and Nintendo. Ask Sun Microsystems. Ask Novell. Ask IBM. Ask Oracle. I would say ask Google but they are so new in the market with such fanfair they definitely will be a good challenge for Microsoft as they both have big revenues. Funny thing is that these two companies need each other more than anything... |
Though so far M$ has yet to beat Google even once...that said Google isn't really that reliant on M$, and M$ hates google a lot...
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probably has to do with the ethos and leadership of Google - Eric has a hate on for Microsoft like you wouldn't believe through his many years of losing badly to Microsoft.
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I don't see a reason for him to hate M$...he has never actually lost to them either...
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Alas, I digress, someone who actually thinks the WP7 device is a "clone" of an iPhone needs to get their head checked out... WP7 and iPhone have nothing in common except for the control module for software updates. Of course leave it to any AppleFanBoy to believe that Apple actually made the world of SmartPhones.
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They are referring to a closed down ecosystem..that said if iphone comes to all carriers..and Zune was never able to bead the ipod..why would similar devices be any different? aka why would people choose WP7 over an iphone?
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Give your unaddressed market an Android phone and a WP7 device. Which one do you think they'll get first? Which one will give them the best experience? If you think it's Android you may need to look in the mirror and ask if your Geek ego is taking over reality.
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Android is not that hard to navigate...that said most consumers play around with the phones they try..so if they play around with one android phone with SenseUI for example and don't like it, they may pick up another on with say TouchWiz and like it..on the other hand if they don't like the WP7 UI..its end game...I can speak from experience that when I go with my friends who don't know much about phone pickup one phone and don't like it..once they see same UI on a different phone they don't even bother trying it...
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The WP7 GUI is much cleaner, much more simplistic... fact of the matter is at the end of the day WP7 will not fail - it will compete and do quite well especially capturing the market that hasn't stepped to the table yet... that is by far still the largest market. We are just a bunch of geeks battling over petty stuff - the unaddressed market is far more "interesting" to a company like Microsoft.
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The thing about WP7 is it needs to break through a tough ground...its not impossible but it will be one of the hardest things yet for them...
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Originally Posted by the92playboy
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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During that time bill gates was with M$..Baltmer is fail though and has no clue what he is doing..that said M$ has Apple and Google ahead, HP on same point, and Intel/Nokia from behind to deal with..and each of those companies has as much and some have eve more money then M$...