Still Only 1% of US buyers choosing Windows Phone 7

http://fxfp.com/ Alex F.

WP7 wasn’t available on Verizon until June.

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6G3ZZJCHOLYP3S5CRCIHQ7WDSE MVIM

That is part of the problem. A huge part since that one measly Trophy (a good phone with no exceptional or noteworthy features) has to compete against 973,265 Droid models in Verizon’s stores, and let’s just say the sales reps aren’t helping balance out that difference either.

But the bigger problem is the marketing and app availability. I have a friend who was perfect for a Windows Phone. He had a more-advanced feature phone, was out-of-contract, and needed a smartphone for medical school. He owns a Windows 7 tablet, and isn’t highly interested in the power user capabilities of (nor prepared to accept the complications of having) an Android phone. The simplicity of Windows Phone, combined with the delight of the user experience would have been perfect for him. However, his medical school requires that their students have an app that is only available for iPhone and Android. The iPhone wasn’t an option for him, so guess what he had to buy…

This is the Windows Phone problem in a nutshell. It’s not just first-party feature parity, but there needs to be an all-out push to get into markets like health care, publishing, and other specific fields that are being forced to Android or iPhone; not because that’s what would be best for them, but because those are the only platforms that have the apps to do what they need. Dell has begun replacing their employees’ Blackberry phones with the Dell Venue Pro. Other companies are beginning to contemplate the same. The Office and SharePoint integration, and soon-to-come Office 365 support makes Windows Phone an excellent option for business customers and groups that require their clients to use certain apps. The problem is that Microsoft and developers need to come together to outline these popular, but niche apps and get them on the platform. Sockets support will help, but Mango isn’t going to be a cure-all for these established brands and apps on the iPhone and Android platforms.

http://twitter.com/efjay01 Ef Jay

You cant expect WP7 to get all applications available elsewhere that quickly. A specialised application would likely not be on WP7 at this point but when numbers are higher its more likely to happen.
Gazza

” I have a friend who was perfect for a Windows Phone.”

Sorry to hear that

I hope he gets all the help he needs.

http://fxfp.com/ Alex F.

WP7 wasn’t available on Verizon until June.
http://twitter.com/webdad3 webdad3

maybe if they did some cool advertising of the phone showcasing how much better it is than Andriod or iPhone then that number would go up. I see virtually ZERO ads for it.

zzz

Except when they had those first ads that basic said the WP7 phone will be the one you can wait to put it away unlike other smartphones that are really interesting.

http://twitter.com/webdad3 webdad3

maybe if they did some cool advertising of the phone showcasing how much better it is than Andriod or iPhone then that number would go up. I see virtually ZERO ads for it.
Foo

cos sales personnel convince customers that Androids and other operating systems are better. I was a victim myself but didn’t fall for it.
Foo

cos sales personnel convince customers that Androids and other operating systems are better. I was a victim myself but didn’t fall for it.
Anonymous

Research like this is pretty much useless. It only uses a small sample size and they are never very accurate. RIM have a lot more interest that WP7 pretty much proves this. RIM’s market share, revenue, profits, and market cap are falling off of a cliff. Symbian, Meego and WebOS are essentially DOA. Also, the other platforms have 4% is also suspect.

Alex is right that WP7 wasn’t on Verizon until June. I also agree with webdad3 that Microsoft needs to market the damn platform on everything, from print, to big screen, to TV ads, to billboard ads, and more. Show what the phone can do and what it looks like. Show why it’s better. They also need to nip this carrier sale persons bias in the bud.

Nobody ever said this would be easy. It’s why you can’t be so late to a market. They better get off their butt on Windows 8. No matter how great it may be, iPad will be even more entrenched, and Android tablets may be failing miserably, but you’re giving them another year at least. Get on the ball Microsoft.

MSfan

1% more then what I was expecting, that is from the traffic I see at my store. I been pushing WP7 hard but we are in a very upscale location so pretty much iPhone is all people want to look at except for a few BB and Androids .
MSblog

Waiting for mango:

http://www.uncommom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/mango-snl.jpg
Anonymous

Actually research like this is very useful and it doesn’t take a large sample size to get accurate results (it’s more about how the sample is chosen). Rim may be in free fall (like Nokia) but they are still a lot bigger than WP7 – the interest levels in this survey seem about right.

The really interesting thing is that iOS is now growing faster in the US than Android.
http://grantmcwilliams.com grantmasterflash

So if the 4% are the DOA OS’s then what does that make Win Mobile at 1%. DDOA?

This thing has been hyped up to death and yet nobodies standing in line to pick one up. Microsoft has had 7 chances to get this right.

Anonymous

That number is just garbage. It doesn’t jibe with other data out there such as FB user count and Amazon sales ranking. WP7 is probably around 3-7% right now in the US. For AT&T, it’s probably higher. Once all carriers start to sell top tier phones like Focus (and Nokia soon), numbers will go up much higher.

Anonymous

Actually doesn’t this number jibe almost perfectly with the other data we have seen?

Anonymous

No new devices and still the same old software. I’d expect it to hover at 1-2% until the Mango “re-launch”
Anonymous

No new devices and still the same old software. I’d expect it to hover at 1-2% until the Mango “re-launch”
http://twitter.com/domineus Malcolm Williams

I hate to say this but the research is meaningful. HOWEVER, as we all forget, statistics just notes a natural phenonemon and quantifies it. There is no why to the phenomena being investigated.

And given the plethora of articles for WP7 bias I have to say getting even 1% in that is miraculous in these times. Android is being pushed down everyone’s throat, and it is clearly verified statistically…

Anonymous

“Android is being pushed down everyone’s throat, and it is clearly verified statistically… ”

Then why is iOS growing faster than Android in this report?

http://twitter.com/domineus Malcolm Williams

vzw and apple…and let’s not forget ios encompasses apple, ipod, and ipad…it is very LIKELY that ipad users are the driving force behind the ios push. Also there is no device by device breakdown, just a general OS breakdown. However, these are just guesses, not even hypotheses…
but for mobile devices, there is definitely a bias

Anonymous

Nope, Nielsen is talking about just the iPhone:

“However, while Android also leads among those who recently purchased a new smartphone, it is the Apple iPhone that has shown the most growth in recent months.”

Android is bigger, but iPhone is growing faster.

If you’re going to talk about something it helps to read the source material first.

http://twitter.com/domineus Malcolm Williams

But that’s just it…the only thing the data shows is that android is hitting a plateau while iphone is growing. That doesn’t necessarily matriculate into which smartphone os is more popular. Yeah I didn’t see the small iphone tag (just the ios) that was my mistake, but are we not forgetting what vzw has done to a lot of CDMA customers who didn’t have iphone? Now users have iphones not just on vzw but cricket as well. So again my point is still pretty darn valid

There is a bias with android on the customer front, windows phone is not gaining momentum because of this, and iphone growth can be argued to be due to CDMA floodgates ppening. Now we can discuss this for eons but we will only be going into a perpetual circle. And those get boring.

Just because the graph indicates android is hitting a plateau doesn’t mean android isn’t ceasing growth. It’s just evened the growth out versus exponential sales for the past year
Anonymous

The data is more important than you give it credit for as it gives us a snapshot or where the market is headed right now. It seems likely that a good portion of Androids success in the US was due to no viable competition on Verizon and now that that has changed the growth has shifted to the iPhone (I do think both of these platforms will continue to dominate, taking most of the market share shed by Rim in the US and by Rim and Nokia in the rest of the world).

Big entrenched players always get an advantage, that’s one of the benefits of getting there early and establishing a brand. Players who come late to the market are forced to differentiate themselves – cheaper pricing, unique (desirable) features. WP7 can’t be a lot cheaper since the hardware BOM is similar to others and so far their features have failed to be seen as benefits by many customers. It’s most likely that this is because they have failed to explain the benefits to consumers (marketing), but it’s also possible that their unique features just aren’t seen as offering enough of a benefit to switch.

BTW, matriculate doesn’t mean what you think it does.
http://twitter.com/domineus Malcolm Williams

But no one even knows the features! That’s the main problem. You have idiots thrusting iphone and android as if it is gospel. Let’s be frank the people that ask for windows phone are a very small percentage. Most retailers will say you need an android, or an iphone. Windows phone isn’t even presented into the equation and we wonder why market is low?

btw matriculate – move into a group…or for a student move into a college university/enroll
the word has double meanings =)
Anonymous

I know the meaning s of matriculate and still think you’ve used it incorrectly. What is entering into a group in your sentence?

You can’t expect sales people to spend a lot of time worrying about the feature/benefit list of a small player when they have other more popular items that are easier to sell and make customers just about as happy. This is a classic barrier to entry that the new (small) player faces. The handset makers (well, at least until Nokia starts selling) aren’t going to care – they all also have Android phones that probably make better margins (much higher volumes). So it’s really up to Microsoft to reach out to customers and the sales people – but instead they’ve really kind of dropped the ball.

I also think Microsoft felt that Metro was going to be teir big feature but it’s looking more and more like the average consumer doesn’t see any big benefit in it. You really need a bunch of good features in the hope that two or three will be seen as benefits by a lot of customers.

Anonymous

I am sorry, but that graph clearly shows that Android is growing faster. The graph does not show the marketshare, it shows the adoption rate. 27 out of 100 people bought an android device in May only 17 bought an iPhone

Anonymous

From the report by Nielsen:

“However, while Android also leads among those who recently purchased a new smartphone, it is the Apple iPhone that has shown the most growth in recent months.”

Helps to read the material before you comment.

Anonymous

Hm…

we might be misunderstanding us here. When you talked about the “iOS
Platform”, I assumed you meant marketshare. Whereas this study shows that
the *sales* of iOS devices has grown (by 70% compared to february) more
than the sales of Android
devices (by 0% compared to february). That means the iOS Platform
(marketshare) itself can’t have grown more than the Android Platform
(marketshare). At least, that’s how I read the Paragraph “However, while
Android also leads among those who
recently purchased a new smartphone, it is the Apple iPhone that has shown
the most growth in recent months.”
Anonymous

Android is selling more but the rate at which they are selling has leveled off. The rate at which iPhone is selling is growing (i.e. closing the gap with Android).

rsgx

I wonder how much of this is people still being tied into contracts?

If you got an iPhone last July, you’ll be in contract till either the end of this year or the middle of next.

I think that’s a big part of the reason personally, and if things don’t pick up by then, we’ll know it’s another problem (or at least, I will, lol).

Peter

Good point…but then again it did not seem to effect Verizon iPhone sales.

Anonymous

Exactly – supposedly iPhones are already the top selling phone at Verizon, so it seems contracts are not an issue. This would also explain why they are growing faster than Android in the US right now.

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hi, Apple apologist. how are you?

Anonymous

You have anything useful to add to the conversation or do you just enjoy being a worthless troll?

rsgx

But iPhones already have a reputation. People were waiting for the Verizon iPhone to come out for ages too.

Anonymous

I consider WP7 incomplete until Mango is stable. There are just too many fundamental OS features that WP7 lacks ( I mean, no sockets? ).

Now that’s about to be taken care of, we have to deal with the hardware problem. WP7 is constantly lacking Android in that department. And remember, it’s WP7 that needs to outpace the incumbent.

I really can’t blame the sales reps for trying to sell better hardware to their customers. If the choice was selling someone a HTC Sensation or a HD7 on contract, I’m a die-hard WP7 fan, but I’d sell the Sensation.

Aa

What i would do is show the customer both devices and let them decide.
http://twitter.com/efjay01 Ef Jay

The functionality should sell the phone, not just the hardware. Pointless having all those cores yet you cant access your company’s Sharepoint server, isnt it?

http://chmun77.myopenid.com/ Jimmy

I think what he meant is after Mango, hardware should comes into place already. So what if the phone has plenty of functions but lags in every menu?
Gazza

“The functionality should sell the phone, not just the hardware.”

Maybe that’s why its not selling ???? the current lack of functionality means it is currently a fail+ ?

I’m an IT Consultant and recommend Android to all my Clients, it works great with Google apps too !!!

The nightmares I still get from WM6.5 still haunt me and I don’t know if Windows Mongo will be any better but I won’t be in a hurry to find out !!!

Anonymous

Steep games/apps prices and lack of proper advertising.. what did you expect? Maybe things will improve with Mango but we can only hope.

Murani Lewis

game/app pricing? Consumers don’t know the pricing before purchasing phones. Mango is the true starting point for the growth of market share. Better advertising, available on all carriers and not having to promtoe all phones at once will be major additions.

http://chmun77.myopenid.com/ Jimmy

Not really… WP7 has been out for sometime…. Words of mouth can reach everyone already…. For those who wanna get a WP7 will ask their friends who are using WP7, and for sure they will know that the prices of apps and games for WP7 is crazy high.

http://www.facebook.com/nizzon Johan Nilsson

Just give it some time.
More and more of my friends are starting to comment on my Omnia 7 and want to try it, most of them think it feels fantastic and looks awesome.
The masses are allways a year or two behind.
Brandfa01

Change the name from Windows Phone to just Microsoft “Mango” and the phones will sell like hot cakes!
The name is the biggest problem!!

Brandfa01

It’s easy to market too.. Ask for a smartphone with “Mango”. Nokia with “Mango”, HTC with “Mango”, LG with “Mango”, etc.. Why are these marketing people so dense!

http://profiles.google.com/blueandwhite89 Daniel Purdham

Microsoft should target Canadians, with the new entrants in the wireless spectrum in Canada, thousands are breaking contracts just to switch, meaning they are looking for a new phone at the same time. If you combine that with the regulars resigning contracts its a lot.

Mind you, in Canada we have 3 year contracts where as in the states, I believe its 2 max (wish we had it like that).

They should market their threads and groups for people who love bbm/texting, they should show the Windows Server app streaming videos from your home computer for media freaks, they should market the things that make the OS so great, nothing like those ads we saw at launch, “getting you in and out of your phone quicker”. Yes its great you can glance and go, but thats not going to sell a phone lol.
http://profiles.google.com/blueandwhite89 Daniel Purdham

They cant wait another year later for another major upgrade, hopefully they will be able to push Windows Phone 8 out before school starts next year,
http://www.facebook.com/deadonthefloor Mark Firemoon

I would argue the opposite to the first sentence of this article. I would argue that only 1% of Cell phone buyers managed to purchase a windows phone 7 device in spite of carriers urging them to use iDevices, Android and RIM.

http://twitter.com/efjay01 Ef Jay

Yep, going against the Legion of Evil Fanboys Against WP7 can be tough!

MangoGuy

Ef Jay one of the smarter ones here and should now better.

Carriers and sales people make more commission on Androids (rebates) and iPhone (higher sale price, customer will to pay premium for it) sales. Why should they push something makes them less money and is not as good (until mango…we hope).

MS needs to do a better job with WP7 in marketing, carrier relations and update speed.

http://twitter.com/efjay01 Ef Jay

Should a salesman’s commision be the sole determinator to what is sold to a customer? If a customer ASKS for a WP7 handset should they be denied just so a sales rep can get some extra coin? Sorry thats not a valid reason in any universe. If we basically have to bribe sales reps to sell certain devices that speaks to a bigger problem with the whole system that seems to care nothing for what the consumer actually wants. Which is what it should be all about in the end.

http://twitter.com/gtroberts GTRoberts

@EF Jay – Yes, you are right. It *should* be about what the consumer wants… but its not.

Sales staff ARE being paid by commission based on which particular phones they sell. This is how retail (generally) works around the world; cars, white goods, heck even desks.

Is it right to do this? no…
Will it change? NO.
MangoGuy

The is how the game is played so MS has to either produce a product that is so good people are people lining up overnight at stores around the world like do for the iPhone or willing to pay enough commission to encourage sale people to push the WP7 harder like Android does.

STOP WHINING, Stop blaming anything or anybody but MS for not performing. They hold all the responsibility for WP7 success or failure.
http://twitter.com/efjay01 Ef Jay

Yes, its all MS’s fault, if I walk into a store actually willing to make a purchase and a sales reps throws falsehoods at me its all MS’s fault for not greasing their palms. I get it now. Thanks for the lesson in honesty and business ethics.
Gazza

Ef Jay

“I walk into a store actually willing to make a purchase and a sales reps throws falsehoods at me ”

Like this you mean ?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10346669-62.html

“Thanks for the lesson in honesty and business ethics”

Honesty and business ethics are generally mutually exclusive

“If a customer ASKS for a WP7 handset should they be denied just so a sales rep can get some extra coin? Sorry thats not a valid reason in any universe.”

Its a very valid reason actually………

What is NOT a valid reason is the way Microsoft has strong armed PC Manufacturers, you cant buy a bare PC in any major supplier now thanks to them.

So please stop crying……….

My iPhone is up for renewal on the 12th July……..Smsung Galaxy S2 loveliness here i come

PS “Yep, going against the Legion of Evil Fanboys Against WP7 can be tough!”

you sound like a fanboi……………
Guest

You are correct for at the end of the day it Is all MS and their ability to create products that succeed, to build relationships that are mutually beneficial, and never forget the customer is what matters.
Guest

You are correct for at the end of the day it Is all MS and their ability to create products that succeed, to build relationships that are mutually beneficial, and never forget the customer is what matters.

Zzz

Even if that is true, then you need to be blaming MS for terrible marketing and poor carrier relations. This is MS not doing it’s job well.
this guy dont know

me and my wife both just got upgrades and the tmobile guy in the store told her to stay away from windows7 phone…that was 4 months ago…and i just upgraded buy phone 2 nights ago and the contract specialist also told me he highly recomends to stay away as well

Guest

There is a perfectly serviceable softkeyboard in the OS. Therefore attaching a bulky keyboard to the phone makes sense for a very very small percentage of people. Stop doing stupid things like that and maybe the fact that the WP7 is available on multiple carriers will make a difference. As of now, if you don’t want a stupid keyboard, you have very few WP7 choices if you are perfectly happy with your current carrier that is not AT&T.
Guest

There is a perfectly serviceable softkeyboard in the OS. Therefore attaching a bulky keyboard to the phone makes sense for a very very small percentage of people. Stop doing stupid things like that and maybe the fact that the WP7 is available on multiple carriers will make a difference. As of now, if you don’t want a stupid keyboard, you have very few WP7 choices if you are perfectly happy with your current carrier that is not AT&T.
Pacific

The research came from the buyers that came out of the stores. Only 1% bought Windows Phone 7 and the other 99% didn’t because the sales reps been telling them to buy something else other than Windows Phone 7

Guest

Can blame the sales person they want a happy customer.

Sam

Give WP7 in a customers hand and I guarantee they will be happy customers! The problem is that the carrier and their salesmen don’t even want to try!

http://chmun77.myopenid.com/ Jimmy

I don’t think so seriously…. Not until Mango is here. We can’t even tether, no SD card access from PC, no proper IM, no app switching, etc etc…. Everything that Mango has is not even available on current models. MS should release Mango in phases, so that there are always something that consumers looking forward too…

Sam

Give WP7 in a customers hand and I guarantee they will be happy customers! The problem is that the carrier and their salesmen don’t even want to try!

chit

It is so bad, the sales reps made more people buy Windows Mobile 6.5 than Windows Phone 7.

SteveB

WP7 doesn’t get as much exposure as the Android phones at retail phone shops. I went to one today and it was wall-to-wall Android phones. But one glimer of hope was another section dedicated to Nokia phones. One day I thought, all of this section would be WP7.

Getting Nokia onboard was a master stroke. No one loves your baby as you do, the phone manufacturers like HTC and Samsung will want to push their android phones first, WP7 is cute but an after thought.
SteveB

WP7 doesn’t get as much exposure as the Android phones at retail phone shops. I went to one today and it was wall-to-wall Android phones. But one glimer of hope was another section dedicated to Nokia phones. One day I thought, all of this section would be WP7.

Getting Nokia onboard was a master stroke. No one loves your baby as you do, the phone manufacturers like HTC and Samsung will want to push their android phones first, WP7 is cute but an after thought.
Peter

How do you write the short version of “Window Phone 7″?

KIN

http://fxfp.com/ Alex F.

Lame.

Steven Hutchison

Your a failure ya fucking idiot

Grammar Nazi

Correction: ‘You’re a failure, you fucking idiot!’. Notice the apostrophe? It replaces the letter ‘a’, as in ‘you Are’. Someone needs to go back to elementary school and learn the basic rules of grammar, ‘idiot’.

Anonymous

the other 99% are either ignorant or idiots.

http://chmun77.myopenid.com/ Jimmy

Please… That’s uncalled for…. As being an idiot calling others idiots…. tsk tsk tsk….
Anonymous

I wish there was a dislike button. Statements like that are not only not helpful but also let us see your level of intelligence.

zyrg zyrg

Look like windows mobile (with 9% share According to Nielsen’s May survey ) steel oversell WP7.
raj_0671

People like me still holding on to wm6 phone becuase there is no Outlook direct sync. May be MS will consider adding this option in Mango.
Anonymous

I understand we live in a world where success is judged by how fast a product sells and how many, however, we must understand the climate in which WP7 was launched, therefore, 1% isn’t so bad. First of all, most consumers and salespeople think WP7 is Windows Mobile. Also, there were too many features unavailable in the first batch of phones that made the platform unattractive but will change with Mango of course. Finally, there is the mindshare battle that WP7 has to infiltrate that will only increase with Mango and greater Xbox Live services being implemented on the phone. I honestly believe WP7 will overthrow IOS as the mobile gaming leader. Can anyone say Xbox Live lol? I’ll update this comment with a link from the Max and the Magic Marker developer who told PocketGamer those exact words and went further by saying WP7 user experience is better than what is currently found on IOS.
Skillit

Some people blame a conspiracy theory where the vendors push consumers away from WP7 other blame the lack of hardware and think that Nokia will be a magical bullet and there are still those who blame the lack of some functions and think that once Mango arrives the platform will shoot for the heavens.

The cold reality is that the WP7 semi-monochromatic UI doesn’t attract the average user, people like the colorful bubblegum like icons of iOS and the moving, multicolored, highly costumizable home screens of android.

The overly expensive and small in numbers games detract the casual gamers from the platform.

And the windows name reminds consumers, who are in the most computer illiterate, of machines in their homes and offices that they can hardly understand and make it work, they don’t want that on their phones.

Most fans of the WP7 keep comparing this with the lunch of android, but it is a completely different situations, Android was release on US only, on the smallest major carrier on only one device, WP7 has more than 10 on all major carriers and it was a international release but still android manege to attract more costumers in the first year.

MS positioned their hardware limitations to make phones on the same range of the iPhone and the top Androids, lunching their incomplete platform against those two very mature one’s, while not offering any advantage in therms of price point, content or hardware. The damage of the first impression is made join that with the general public perception that MS is a company that makes expensive and complex to use products plus the perception on the so called expert circles where MS appear to be using patent trolling to arm twist OEM’s to buy licenses and make hardware for their platform it’s very hard for this trend to change in any form.
http://twitter.com/windowsreviews Windows Phone Review

When I was asked for HTC Mozart, the sales guy kept pushing me to go for Desire S :

Gazza

WP7 is like Mozart…………both dead
Gazza

WP7 is like Mozart…………both dead

http://twitter.com/windowsreviews Windows Phone Review

You are dead too – Mr Zombie. Go, troll on droid forums.

Sir Henry Rotherbottom

In the UK MP’s are discussing whether or not to automatically place WP7 owners on the sex offenders registar.
http://www.facebook.com/asptheone Abraham Soto

The problem with WP7 is that the Apps are to expensive. If you are the underdog you have to be better than the champion to beat it, and what i have see so far is a farcry from that. Android apps are free (majority) and IOS are .99 cent, why i should select a platform that I have to pay 5x more to get the same app, They will have to make the apps free with Adds or reduce the price. Also the hardware of current WP7 phones are last gen. I want dual cores and 1 gig ram/rom phones with nice GPUs inside not the ADRENO 200 that every single WP7 have. MS is making everything posible to fail in this market. I hope Mango and Apollo correct all this.
Guest

How much of that 1% is actually WinMo 6.x customers (mostly corporate) still buying the few units carriers support yet? There are many who cannot take advantage of Phone 7 because of its compatibility-break and want a “pocket PC” and not a ‘tainment-phone? Few statistics I have seen are breaking out the numbers separately for thw two very different platforms.

Phone 7 may well have much less than 1% of the market.
Guest

How much of that 1% is actually WinMo 6.x customers (mostly corporate) still buying the few units carriers support yet? There are many who cannot take advantage of Phone 7 because of its compatibility-break and want a “pocket PC” and not a ‘tainment-phone? Few statistics I have seen are breaking out the numbers separately for thw two very different platforms.

Phone 7 may well have much less than 1% of the market.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000722296108 Herman Guerra

Its all about first impression. Yes people argue that WP7 is snappy and everything that is great of what smartphones should be but when a sales person shows off a wp7, the first thing they see are those tiles. WP7 tiles does not have the “WOW’ first impression.
http://grantmcwilliams.com grantmasterflash

I see the increase in marketshare of iOS as no more than Verizon picking up the iphone. There were a lot of sad people on Verizon that would have loved to be part of the hip crowd but couldn’t and now they all ran out and bought iOS devices. I don’t see this as a long term trend and I think the growth will go back to the level it was before. Android came way late to the game and eclipsed iOS. I don’t see that ending because one phone can’t compete with 200 phones no matter how good or bad they are. We’re seeing the 1980s all over again. Apple puts out one really neat machine and IBM and the clones put out 200 crappy ones and win.
http://grantmcwilliams.com grantmasterflash

I see the increase in marketshare of iOS as no more than Verizon picking up the iphone. There were a lot of sad people on Verizon that would have loved to be part of the hip crowd but couldn’t and now they all ran out and bought iOS devices. I don’t see this as a long term trend and I think the growth will go back to the level it was before. Android came way late to the game and eclipsed iOS. I don’t see that ending because one phone can’t compete with 200 phones no matter how good or bad they are. We’re seeing the 1980s all over again. Apple puts out one really neat machine and IBM and the clones put out 200 crappy ones and win.

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