A call to arms - Windows 7 phone succeeds

[orangekid]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

Man get out of here with this nonsense. WP7 is barely even selling regardless of all that money Microsoft spent on advertising. Developers arent putting much faith in the OS at all due to terrible sales. No one is going to leave IOS or Android for WP7 because at this point its going in reverse. I told yall weeks ago WP7 will always be behind Android, IOS and RIM. Why? Because Microsoft sucks in the mobile market.

And now with IOS moving over to Verizon as well as them getting the Bionic and the Thunderbolt and AT&T picking up Android superphones this year like the Atrix, dont expect it to be much better. Its pretty much like I kept telling people, Microsoft made this move too little and most definitely too late.

1) WP7 is only on GSM as of right now, and it is and will gain ground in the mobile OS world. Nokia just signed on to WP7, more and more handsets will be realeased. NoDo will offer C&P and other things, and Mango will offer 3rd party multitasking.

2) Developers love WP7 because of its environment. What evidence do you have that any developers are "leaving" WP7? It is not fragmented like Android, how do you think WP7 got a netflix streaming app WAY before Android. XNA and Silverlight are also very easy to develop for and MS is being very developer and homebrew friendly (see chevron, offering GeoHot a phone, allowing us to port WP7 to the HD2 and even giving us Market PVKs.)

3) The same carriers picking up iOS and android are picking up WP7, and unlike iOS all 4 US carriers will have WP7 devices.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by orangekid

how do you think WP7 got a netflix streaming app WAY before Android.

umm..cause netflix uses PlayReady DRM which is made by M$?

[orangekid]

Originally Posted by gTen

umm..cause netflix uses PlayReady DRM which is made by M$?

and Apple got it so early how?

[gTen]

Originally Posted by orangekid

and Apple got it so early how?

Apple has their FairPlay DRM..see the trend here..




Google acquired Widevine DRM in December 2010, which is also used by Netflix for video..so my guess is once thats implemented is when Android gets Netflix...