earthman007
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Re: Is the 950XL the last Windows Phone you buy
Their sales figures reflect what they didn't do, in the past - which was largely work behind the scenes on their OS, I assume. We know that one phone from Nokia, that could potentially have been great, was killed off.
It's a different landscape now. Redstone upgrades pending, we've got an OS that's going to be vastly different to what we had when the 950s were launched. (We've got a massive shift from that point, already). We also know that MS is pursuing enterprise customers. Standalone consumer customers aren't being addressed, unless we're matched with needs to those enterprise customers: it may mean that we need larger budgets, paying unit prices that are without the bulk order discounts that larger companies could achieve.
A lot is out there in the hands of the OEMs for me. How do they respond to the MS proposition, from the improved OS and a diminished focus from MS into the consumer market. I'm someone who is really happy to keep a phone for a few years, buying it outright and then shifting my network as I see fit. In that timeframe it's feasible to see a lot of change. MS could alter its position (I'm not expecting much difference) the OS could evolve, to enable hugely interesting functionality that some hardware developer can jump onto, that would really keep me and others happy - even if we're secondary to the business users.
I'm here for the medium term and, I hope, the long-term.
...As I see MSFT's quarterly numbers basically saying their phone business is dead....
Their sales figures reflect what they didn't do, in the past - which was largely work behind the scenes on their OS, I assume. We know that one phone from Nokia, that could potentially have been great, was killed off.
It's a different landscape now. Redstone upgrades pending, we've got an OS that's going to be vastly different to what we had when the 950s were launched. (We've got a massive shift from that point, already). We also know that MS is pursuing enterprise customers. Standalone consumer customers aren't being addressed, unless we're matched with needs to those enterprise customers: it may mean that we need larger budgets, paying unit prices that are without the bulk order discounts that larger companies could achieve.
A lot is out there in the hands of the OEMs for me. How do they respond to the MS proposition, from the improved OS and a diminished focus from MS into the consumer market. I'm someone who is really happy to keep a phone for a few years, buying it outright and then shifting my network as I see fit. In that timeframe it's feasible to see a lot of change. MS could alter its position (I'm not expecting much difference) the OS could evolve, to enable hugely interesting functionality that some hardware developer can jump onto, that would really keep me and others happy - even if we're secondary to the business users.
I'm here for the medium term and, I hope, the long-term.