I wouldn't mind having oems still around though. They are relevant to a certain degree, but I do agree that MS has to slow down and go a bit Appelish in the way of bringing a select few "hero" devices per year of their own.
Hopefully this encourages other oems to innovate again like they did when MS introducted the Surface line. That wasn't very succesful till the Surface 2 pro I believe, but you can definitly see oems coming up with some interesting design and hardware options lately - let's hope this also works for W10M in the long term.
That being said, HTC was really helpful back in the WP7 days and Samsung were in the WP7.5 era. So many oppertunities with Windows 10 Mobile. Especially now that MS announced that they are slowing down on releasing their own phones. Gives more breathing room for other oems.
Alas, time will tell. But imho I believe oems stopped caring once Nokia flooded the market with all sorts of Lumia's, ranging from high to low spec. Was it a nessecary evil? Probably. Did it backfire? In my opinion it did. But they (MS/Nokia) didn't had much choice at that point in time.
I just hope we'll see GREAT Lumia devices that set the bar, and sweet phones made by oems inspired by those. I really enjoyed my HTC 8X for example, my buddy still rocks his 8S and those were inspired by Nokia's colourful phones. Well, except the two-tone dipped 8S, that was pretty unique.
And I like my M8 even though it hurts to know its just a recycled Android phone.
07-10-2015 08:44 AM
