On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:37 PM, mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Will anyone apart from devs be buying it, on current trends? This chart is > being kind on current figures in not including it with 'others' > Doubt it. MS is doing what it has always done - having an awesome developer story. That was based on the old world view of owning the platform and the developers creating lock-in etc. I am not sure that the same logic holds today. Service > Software and Specific Features meaningful to a given user are more important than any developer narrative. None of the stuff in Ian's original post means much for end users and it will be a cold day in hell before my wife asks me for a WinPhone/Android device. Both WinPhone and Android suffer from the 'too hard' problem of being different phones and brands and form factors and you have to wait for Telstra/Voda/whoever to make their bastardised version of the OS 3 months after the software is finished ... blah blah blah. Apple users just get it from iTunes on the day it is released with the click of a button. I am rotating between an HTC Mozart, HTC Desire, and iPhone 4 depending on how I feel like for the given week and to stay abreast of what the platforms are doing ... but for end users/women/non-nerds, MS and G are making it too easy for Apple. MS should have ditched partners and gone the same route as XBOX - vertically integrated, single platform with easy to understand marketing for ONE product with a few simple SKUs to extract money from the punters. > For Microsoft, that's tragic. > Indeed. They used to own the genuine smartphone market. David. -- *David Connors* | da...@codify.com | www.codify.com Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
