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I think there is little marketing because MS knows WP7 is half-baked. It's for MS enthusiasts only. WP8 will (must) change this. WP8 has to be a killer and they need to promote the **** out of it, else they're doomed.
The same way justified the expense of the original XBox? It worked out in the end on that one.
In this thread alone WP has been compared to:
RIM
The tortoise and the hare
The American automotive industry
Apple
And now, finally, the Xbox.
Got any more analogies that may or may not be apt?
I think there is little marketing because MS knows WP7 is half-baked. It's for MS enthusiasts only. WP8 will (must) change this. WP8 has to be a killer and they need to promote the **** out of it, else they're doomed.
/agree. I enjoyed the functionality/flexibility of my Android, but bought a WP to help support the OS as I saw potential. I have deliberately held off on updating my contract for the last year because I wanted to wait for the WP8 devices. That said, if the gap in functionality isn't closed with WP8 or some other really good feature/integration, then I'll likely be jumping back to Android....
It's so bad that Microsoft themselves have created a wish list site.WP definitely needs a lot more functionality, especially in terms of user options. I wish they would add text reflow for example to the browser and screen shot functionality as well. Out of curiosity what functionality do you see missing?
It's about both, because with "behind the curve" phones you know any ecosystem will suffer in one way or another. Games will be of lower quality (visually or in performance). Apps will not be on feature parity with their sisters on other platforms (i.e. PayPal NFC money transfers, for example), and in some cases developers may simply refuse to support the platform period, in an effort to avoid a fragmented user experience. Also the user experience for other people is degraded as a result - for example instead of doing a 720p video call they're getting pixelated VGA video from you...
Out of curiosity what functionality do you see missing?
The short answer is that Verizon is my biggest problem. If they sold a Titan II type phone I'd be much less apt to go back to Android. But they don't, so here's my list that I need to see fulfilled:
I can't complain about Windows Phone. It knocks the socks off BlackBerry, which is what I had previously.
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send secret shopper to 500 retailers and you will get 501 sales people re-jecting Win Phone the extra one was because of the customer who dared to insist he really wanted WinP7 not iphone or android
Carphone Warehouse made a quick job of selling me the TITAN when I went in to buy one, they didn't even try and challenge me. Dunno why, if all the salespeople are so against WP7... Surely if they're anything like Verizon, shouldn't they have been hurling insults at me for even daring to consider WP7? And continued to insult me when I said "Either sell me a WP7 or you're not getting my money"?
I am not saying that they will try and sell you a different phone if you know what you want, my point was new smartphone users (believe it or not alot of people havent switched to smartphones yet) are pushed towards Android and iOS without WP even being mentioned.