Microsoft has essentially withdrawn Lumia from the broad consumer market. The idea is to give some space to other OEMs to enter the windows market with appealing products.
I think in some ways,this approach is working with us the fans/consumers. When Lumia was thriving under Nokia and later had so many choices under Microsoft, i never really considered other OEMs. Sure, i was really glad that they were giving the platform a go but i was quite comfortable buying phones under the established Lumia brand, especially because the phones came from Microsoft. I think many of us here felt the same way too, praising the new OEMs but ultimately intending to stick with Lumia.
Now because of the lack of choices or compelling hardware from Lumia, i find myself looking at other OEMs. Recently I have been looking at Xiaomi, Oneplus, Lenovo & Moto. I have even requested some of them via their twitter handles to look into making windows phones. I believe many others are there like me who have now slowly turned away from Lumia and have started paying attention to other OEMs.
The other day, i tweeted to Xiaomi and Microsoft India to consider building a Windows 10 ROM for Mi5. Though its already rumoured to be in the works, it never hurts to show your interest I got a response from MS that the feedback will be cascaded. https://twitter.com/MicrosoftIndia/status/708153191356088320
Perhaps the rest of you here ought to make your interests in other OEMs known more vocally? Forget the Surface Phone for now...its still a year away and without new OEMs stepping in, Windows is likely to be even further behind from a market share perspective...This is the right time to start letting other favourite OEMs know that you want Windows phones from them
I think in some ways,this approach is working with us the fans/consumers. When Lumia was thriving under Nokia and later had so many choices under Microsoft, i never really considered other OEMs. Sure, i was really glad that they were giving the platform a go but i was quite comfortable buying phones under the established Lumia brand, especially because the phones came from Microsoft. I think many of us here felt the same way too, praising the new OEMs but ultimately intending to stick with Lumia.
Now because of the lack of choices or compelling hardware from Lumia, i find myself looking at other OEMs. Recently I have been looking at Xiaomi, Oneplus, Lenovo & Moto. I have even requested some of them via their twitter handles to look into making windows phones. I believe many others are there like me who have now slowly turned away from Lumia and have started paying attention to other OEMs.
The other day, i tweeted to Xiaomi and Microsoft India to consider building a Windows 10 ROM for Mi5. Though its already rumoured to be in the works, it never hurts to show your interest I got a response from MS that the feedback will be cascaded. https://twitter.com/MicrosoftIndia/status/708153191356088320
Perhaps the rest of you here ought to make your interests in other OEMs known more vocally? Forget the Surface Phone for now...its still a year away and without new OEMs stepping in, Windows is likely to be even further behind from a market share perspective...This is the right time to start letting other favourite OEMs know that you want Windows phones from them