LOL, not as dated as the 930 that just released.
Nokia INHERITED most of the market share. When everyone else mostly jumps ship, its easy to get majority market.
Step back, take a deep breath, and think like a consumer. It released when Android was already playing with quad cores. Consumers don't know that WP doesn't need as high end hardware, and salespeople don't educate them. A customer asks, which is faster? The salesperson points at the higher specced device, EVERY TIME. It WAS a low end device.
You are being absolutely ridiculous with your negative nancy attitude.
1. You're missing the point. I never said the 930 isn't dated...Spec wise the M8 and 930/Icon are both fine simply because Specs don't matter as much on WP like they do on Android(all the more reason I laugh when people go crazy because the M8 is the faster phone with a slightly higher processor. Like that REALLY matters on windows phone XD)
I said it's features are dated. If you're going to quote me, quote the entire post. The M8 for windows is a fantastic device for WIndows Phone yes but it is dated nonetheless simply because We've already seen this device when it was just called "The All New HTC ONE M8"....for android. It is slightly worse because it then does feel like an after thought for Windows Phone.
2. I love how people try to discredit Nokia's success in WP...let's not forget that presently WP would be dead(and HTC likely wouldn't have brought the M8(nor Samsung's rebadged galaxy turned ativ line) to WP without Nokia helping the success
In that case, Samsung Profited off of Android Manufacturer's ineptitude with Android...Motorola was beating the Droid Line into the ground and then releasing half-baked devices like the Motorola Atrix(and let's not forget those horrible phones like devour and the backflip...idk what motorola was thinking. Idk what I WAS thinking buying the backflip), HTC was releasing way too many phones and unable to actually keep up and support them leaving a lot of people on dated software with no plans to ever upgrade them, Sony was struggling majorly with their Xperia X10 line, and LG was just there.....
So samsung profited off the slowness and stupidity of the other OEMs. All the Manufactures jumped ship from Windows Phone...leaving Nokia to get the marketshare.
First of all it didn't inherit anything
you can't just inherit Marketshare(unless you buy into it like Microsoft has done with Nokia). They still had to earn it regardless XD And they did
They just lacked less competition(much Like Samsung lacked much competition) and by the time the other OEMs decided to stop being fools, it became a tough battle because Samsung had become de facto.
3. If we're thinking like a consumer...since I work with Retail/Marketing
"Hey so I want a phone with a really good Camera. I am heavily into Instagram, Vine, Flicr and facebook. What kind of phones do you suggest?"
More importantly, they'll look at the Specs of each phone
"Wow this phone has a 4 megapixel camera? But this one has a 20."
OR in favor of HTC
"I like listening to a lot of music on my phone and i want something that sounds good when I dance but nothing apple."
What average consumer do you know that goes in saying "I want a phone with a Quad Core processor."
Going off your earlier logic the average person doesn't know what a Quadcore is nor do they know if their phones use the latest one or what the latest one does.