I think with there upcoming W10 mobile update and new Lumia flagship phones not what they had intended them to be and all, it shouldn't have stopped them from at least showing an effort to marketing them.
When you've got crappy app situation like no Google apps, Chase Bank, no Starbucks, no Mint, etc... what's the point in marketing the camera or Hello?
The first iPhone had no 3rd-party apps at all, but Apple still bothered to advertise it. It seems to me that the no-apps excuse is just that, an excuse.
You cannot compare it to that since when the first IPhone came out, the competition did not have a proper app store either (maybe other than Symbian). In that case, the competition is a lot tougher now, and people have higher expectations.
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When you've got crappy app situation like no Google apps, Chase Bank, no Starbucks, no Mint, etc... what's the point in marketing the camera or Hello?
when you have an iphone with no lumia creative studio or swipe keyboard or refocus or cinemagraph or opera mini or manual camera controls, what's the point of getting an iphone?
Because the iPhone doesn't need those things.
Really? I thought they didn't need living images? Or bluetooth?
With only 14% of the market, and Android with 80% I would say Android is what Microsoft should emulate not IOS. There will come a time when Smartphones are not the THING anymore. When that time comes, and it will, the IPhone will not matter.
When you've got crappy app situation like no Google apps, Chase Bank, no Starbucks, no Mint, etc... what's the point in marketing the camera or Hello?
They, over the years, have gotten used to being in a position where they did not have to worry about marketing. Every one used Windows so they did not have to market anything. Those days are gone but they don't know how to market so the situation does not change. The people at the head of Microsoft are a still old time Microsoft people so why would they do anything different.