Darryl Dixon
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"Stumbling cautiously"?? First off- I love that phrase. I am going to steal that and get it into as many conversations as I can. :grin:
Secondly, I find that strange. what was WP's marketshare prior to Nokia? Bada was outselling it. With Nokia? Now outselling BlackBerry, and giving Apple a run for it's money in some markets. What was phone camera tech like prior to Lumia 920, 928, 1520, and of course the 1020? No IOS, very little built in tech, simple software tech, and the iPhone was given the nod every year as the best shooter. Since? Well, let's just say no one else is close, but I expect this summer's offerings to show just how hard everyone else is trying to keep up.
Phones with fun colors? There would be no Moto X customization if there wasn't Nokia Lumia 900, 810, and 710 in red, white, grey, cyan, so on.
Kids corner? Rooms? Natural, seamless intergration for social feeds all baked into the software? MS innovations.
WP is not streaking ahead of Android. I realize that. But my standard answer on the speed of WP is this:
WP is behind, and can't afford a mistake. It would kill them. What they do, has to be done well and has to work. I would rather them move a little slower and get things right then speed up and kill my current favorite OS by releasing crap that doesn't work right.
Outselling BlackBerry, who isn't? Giving Apple a run for it's money in some markets? Basically picking up the crumbs leftover from Apple and Android. Phones with fun colors? You mean the colors that are paraded around at the launch events, but never available at the actual time of launch. Kids Corner and Family Room are great, but Family Room is empty due to lack of sales. Nokia taking 6 weeks to launch a keyboard, when they knew several months in advance about the 2520 launch.
Mistakes? Is there a bigger mistake in the mobile industry than Windows RT? How about Nokia and it's exclusive releases? Personally, l don't have a problem with Microsoft//Nokia hardware ,and the WP app selection is growing faster than the competitors would like to admit. But their strategy is questionable, if not head scratching to say the least. The problem is not the speed of development. The problem is understanding what the people want, and comparing it to what the competitors are offering.