But I think WP sales will drop like a rock the next few months till WP8 comes. Good move or bad move by MS to announce so far from release?
can sales tank any harder than they already have? lol..
kidding aside.. i do think the lumia will continue to sell well. the only unfortunate part of the upgrade is that wp8 apps won't work on wp7.
wp7 marketshare is at what.. 1% in the US? like it or not, MS was forced to do what they did with WP8.. WP8 will finally be a viable platform/alternative to ios and droid and offer things that both can't.. the stability of iOS and (some of the) flexibility of droid. the gaming aspects as well as the integration with windows 8 is another really unique thing.
those of us who are using wp7 now should really have seen this coming. i sure did. and seems like most wp7 users commenting aren't really that upset about it, so idk.
i do think the lumia will continue to sell decently well until the launch of wp8/windows 8 at which point things should take off in a more meaningful way than they have..
Maybe they announced early because the anger from people who felt "screwed over" will somewhat subside after a few months.
Microsoft should definitely steal a page from the Apple marketing handbook and not make any announcements until a couple of weeks before launch. Lame duck device sales remain strong up until the last minute that way.
Microsoft should definitely steal a page from the Apple marketing handbook and not make any announcements until a couple of weeks before launch. Lame duck device sales remain strong up until the last minute that way.
Or at least wait until the SDK (or whatever it was) is ready for developers.