I'm sure you've noticed the recent Sprint article on the blog part of this site. Before I start, I want to make it clear that I'm not starting this so people can start arguing on whether the Arrive is a terrible device or not. Instead, I want us to think about the amounts of comments the article has received. As of the time I'm writing this, the article has 74 comments. That speaks volumes!
There are a few things I could extrapolate from this. However, I'm really tired right now (and probably shouldn't be writing this right now to begin with), so I'll just put my first point tonight. I'll add more tomorrow.
First of all, there are plenty of people that are passionate about the success of Windows Phone. Of course, there aren't 74 commenters, but there are probably still more than 50 users that felt this issue is a big enough deal to voice their opinion on it. Sure, this article is on a Windows Phone site, but this article is about the third largest major carrier (with 53.4 million customers, behind Verizon and AT&T's combined 208.4 miilion) in the United States--which is just one of the many countries where Windows Phones are sold!
Secondly, people think Sprint is being unfair. We all have to admit that the Arrive didn't sell well. According to ...I'm a WP7!, there are 1,877 people using the app from a Sprint (which means Arrive) phone. However, people still feel like the phone and its platform have been wronged. Of course, we have all seen the reasons (see the post directly below this one ), though, so I won't share them agian.
Third, people still want a new phone on the Sprint network, and they want it before August/September. I thought one of the strangest things was that Sprint's VP didn't say that they were going to cut off WP, but not try again until later this year, and yet people responded as if he had just cast the death penalty on the phone. As a frustrated Trophy user, I can relate to the pains of having a sub-par Windows Phone, though, and having a replacement would be nice.
What do you all think of this? Anything I missed?
Update: the article now has over 100 comments.
There are a few things I could extrapolate from this. However, I'm really tired right now (and probably shouldn't be writing this right now to begin with), so I'll just put my first point tonight. I'll add more tomorrow.
First of all, there are plenty of people that are passionate about the success of Windows Phone. Of course, there aren't 74 commenters, but there are probably still more than 50 users that felt this issue is a big enough deal to voice their opinion on it. Sure, this article is on a Windows Phone site, but this article is about the third largest major carrier (with 53.4 million customers, behind Verizon and AT&T's combined 208.4 miilion) in the United States--which is just one of the many countries where Windows Phones are sold!
Secondly, people think Sprint is being unfair. We all have to admit that the Arrive didn't sell well. According to ...I'm a WP7!, there are 1,877 people using the app from a Sprint (which means Arrive) phone. However, people still feel like the phone and its platform have been wronged. Of course, we have all seen the reasons (see the post directly below this one
), though, so I won't share them agian.Third, people still want a new phone on the Sprint network, and they want it before August/September. I thought one of the strangest things was that Sprint's VP didn't say that they were going to cut off WP, but not try again until later this year, and yet people responded as if he had just cast the death penalty on the phone. As a frustrated Trophy user, I can relate to the pains of having a sub-par Windows Phone, though, and having a replacement would be nice.
What do you all think of this? Anything I missed?
Update: the article now has over 100 comments.
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