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Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7 in U.S. and pretty much nobody shows up
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well i kinda care about stuff thats not important. i mean they peak my interest time to time. if i was more than one person i would probably get a windows phone. or if i could have one number across several phones, one carrier and kinda just switch phones depending on the day of the week, i would surely get one.
however since i dont like switching sim cards and i am only one person, i only have use for one phone thus i wont be getting a win 7 phone anytime soon.
cool stuff tho.
however since i dont like switching sim cards and i am only one person, i only have use for one phone thus i wont be getting a win 7 phone anytime soon.
cool stuff tho.
They do, when you already have Apple covering the Premium end and Google the commodity end. Google has essentially taken MS' Windows approach: licence to everyone who can make a box.
Where does that leave WP7? Nowhere. It's an answer to a question no one asked. Best of luck to MS competing with Google when they already ate MS' lunch.
I've no idea why you feel the need to capitalize the word "premium" (oh, wait, it's referring to Apple
), while using "commodity" the same way in the sentence, minus the capitalization...Anyways, I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I do actually agree with your basic premise. Android has the major swath of the standard smartphone market neatly covered, and Apple's got a solid niche carved out--add in RIM for corporate use, and Nokia for the people still deluded enough to think Symbian is current (this coming from a guy whose shelled out God-knows-how-much for an E90, E66, M600i, P800, etc etc over the years), and there's not much left for MSFT. Their product may be great, but they need a "hook". Can't see what that's going to be. Personally, I like my Android phone just fine, thanks--lets me sync up to cloud services just fine with my Fedora 13-based Thinkpad
--I've no use or interest for lock-in with specific sync software on any computer platform 
I want to say this is the 2nd week in a row they have done that. But tonight last night it was very blatant.
Yes it was, specially since if you see Castle, he has always used an iPhone.
I've no idea why you feel the need to capitalize the word "premium" (oh, wait, it's referring to Apple
Anyways, I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I do actually agree with your basic premise. Android has the major swath of the standard smartphone market neatly covered, and Apple's got a solid niche carved out--add in RIM for corporate use, and Nokia for the people still deluded enough to think Symbian is current (this coming from a guy whose shelled out God-knows-how-much for an E90, E66, M600i, P800, etc etc over the years), and there's not much left for MSFT. Their product may be great, but they need a "hook". Can't see what that's going to be. Personally, I like my Android phone just fine, thanks--lets me sync up to cloud services just fine with my Fedora 13-based Thinkpad
I think Rim is positioned to lose marketshare. the style is a bad idea and trying to use people and brands like diplo and alife that only that a certain niche of people like is a bad idea.
Even with ios and android becoming more secure and wp7 having deep office integration. The only thing rim has left is BBM which will most likely be over took be Kik and Facebook modern messaging.
I think I have seen him use multiple different phones. Just iPhone became one for a while.
Samsung sees better growth potential for WP7. They were late to the android party and HTC made some serious inroads for the android platform. Samsung has its work cut out trying compete against HTC there.
With WP7, they and HTC are on equal foot, that is square one.
Personally, I think HTC has better designs and that's the reason why HTC is so popular.
With WP7, they and HTC are on equal foot, that is square one.
Personally, I think HTC has better designs and that's the reason why HTC is so popular.
Actually, I went back through several episodes, it shows him prominently using an iPhone in every episode. Further more, you can even see the screen when receiving a phone call is exactly as the one an iPhone behaves like. Except with the name Beckett.
Even more, the jingles and ringtones can be heard and even pop-up messages are seen. Clearly, placing a WP7 in there was a message.
Honestly the blatant advertisement like how they did for WP7 annoy me most of the time. Only show that I have seen pull of the blatant advertisement that I though was well done was in Eureka. How they did it in that show was it was so clearly done that they were almost making fun it but still though it was pretty well done and funny in its own way.