So, I'm taking it from that response, you haven't. Microsoft probably will start ponying up the money after the major update due next month. It makes a lot of sense for them to expand into mobile for a number of reasons (for increasing usage of Bing to taking RIMs enterprise market share).
The thing to remember about Android is that "Android sales" encompasses a lot of OEMs, all of whom have the incentive to use Android in terms of R&D savings in not having to develop their own OS. If we had 1 OEM who had the sales of Apple that would be nice, but at the moment we don't, we have to bundle up a number of Tier-1 OEMs to get to that level, and most of them are shipping WinPhone 7 devices now, including the "Nexus" manufacturers Samsung & HTC. I think it's waaaaayyy to early to say this is a bad deal, let alone writing off WinPhone 7. M$ have deep pockets, and that's never something to underestimate when they want to focus on something, just ask anyone who worked at Netscape. Al. ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 11 Feb 2011, at 19:43, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) wrote: >> Out of interest; how many people here have actually used a WinPhone 7 'phone >> as their main 'phone for a couple of weeks or more? > > It's not a matter of how good or bad it is at this point. The WebOS of > Palm was looked at favorably and Meego may have been down right > fantastic. The issue is one of momentum and overall adoption. The > silly metric of number of available apps is something the media has > hooked on to and for the "also rans" category, those numbers are > pathetic. > > For carriers, they're going to spend their marketing bucks on the > devices that people buy the most of. Right now, that's Android and > iPhone. Unless Microsoft starts to pony up billions for advertising > and keeps hitting it hard for a year or more, they're just going to > fade away. They might have the best bread slicer in history but since > they are at least two years behind the curve, it will be nearly > impossible for anyone to know what they have or want it. > > I'm betting that RIM will start to take a hard look at Android too. > There's talk that their new tablet may run Android apps. That's a step > in the right direction for them. If RIM goes all the way with Android > and it's a good bet they might, then it will be a solid two way > competition between iOS and Android. That will be good for the > manufacturers, users and the developer community. > > -John Coryat > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
