Pronk
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sounds to me like ur trying to compare what we have today to what MS had back in the early 90's? i mean c'mon, technology wasnt nearly what it is today... what was better than win 2000 at that current time? nothing! of course things were mediocre , so were all cell phones and anything electronic! tv's were still tubes, we still listened to mediocre sound on cassettes! again keep it real. MS has always been a leader in its industry. people that give them a bad rep usually have no reason to other than they dont like them.
where was apple back in the 90's ??? do you remember those old things ? who used them over windows? not me...
Well yeah, that's precisely what I'm doing because that's where bad reputations come from - bad past experiences. If everyone started afresh tomorrow on a level playing field with no baggage, I'd say phones-wise, Apple and WP7 would be no. 1 and Android second because it's more fiddly.
But it's because of history that MS has a hurdle, so you can't really ignore the past. And it's precisely because Apple and Google don't have that history with most people that they don't have the same issues. No one looking for a smartphone today is going to have ever had a blue screen of death incident in the past because of using Google, or had an xbox RROD because Apple rushed a product to market. That's the sort of baggage I'm talking about that can sway a purchasing decision - and that's before salespeople pushing Android or iOS.
And in case I'm giving the wrong impression here, I really do hope MS get past it as their products and the way they approach things have improved immensely. WP7 deserves greater exposure. But at the same time it's people much like me who are the ones who need convincing - people who've had a crappy ride in the past. I ended up using WP7 almost by accident, but now wouldn't swap it, and I'm the only guy in my group of friends who uses it (most are on Android). I certainly wouldn't have been lured to WP7 by MS's advertising so far, so I think they really need to get evangelists out there letting people try it and letting the OS speak for itself. Adverts (good or bad) only go so far - what they need is to build really solid grassroots support.