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Microsoft Phone 7 Is Dead in the Water | |
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| Time: 09:17 EST/14:17 GMT | News Source: PC Magazine | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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So, according to many reports, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is beginning to lag in sales already, and it's doubtful the company will sustain the thing if it continues to fall behind the leaders. I haven't even seen one of these phones, but people who have seen one tell me that it's actually a very nice device. The problem it seems to have is that it's the odd man out in a two man race. It's number three, or maybe four, or maybe five. | ||
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| #1 By 9589 (76.6.139.215) at 1/28/2011 10:19:56 AM |
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I've hearing, "odd man out in a two man race," since Microsoft Word vs whatever that product was called that is long since dead and the company with it.
The hue and cry was particularly acute when Microsoft got into games and game consoles. Now, it is a multi billion dollar business with Kinect touted as the fastest growing game console ever. 8 million plus consoles sold since debuting 4 November 2010. http://cnettv.cnet.com/e3-2010-microsoft-kinect-xbox-360/9742-1_53-50088986.html Look ma, no hands! I use a BB since it is provided by the firm that I work for. But, we recenlty began making available the Microsoft cell phone as an option. The iPhone is also an option. Competition is great! |
| #2 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 1/28/2011 12:00:16 PM |
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#1: Yes I remember a World dominated by Wordstar first and WordPerfect then; I also remember when Quattro Pro was the de facto spreadsheet but the problem with your analogy is that with Smartphones MS was not the underdog, actually the opposite: MS dominated the market and, unfortunately, the top management stop any development of the segment. Suddendly the iPhone appeared and the rest is history.
Actually what happened to MS resamble exactly the fate of the previous King of PDAs, no Smartphones at the time, Palm: they stop innovating and MS won the battle. I use a WP 7 phone and honestly is a very mixed bag: the main GUI is indeed innovative and I like it a lot but I do not like the idea you have to scroll down to go through all your programs. Also when the new OS was launched was an incomplete product and people were quite aware of it, I was and not particularly concerned because I expected MS to push updates at a very fast pace. Unfortunately, at least so far, nothing has materialized yet and this is a big concern: first because the shortcoming of the OS are, after three months, becoming very annoying and second because it is unclear the WP7 updates roadmap and the only comment people receive from MS is "updates are coming in the next few months" and this is not enough. This post was edited by Fritzly on Friday, January 28, 2011 at 14:50. |
| #3 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 1/28/2011 1:47:05 PM |
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#2: "I like it a lot but I do not like the idea you have to scroll down to go through all your programs. "
Errr... don't you have to do that with all phones? Since you can only fit so many icons/tiles on a screen, you have to scroll. This post was edited by rxcall on Friday, January 28, 2011 at 13:47. |
| #4 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 1/28/2011 2:48:48 PM |
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2: yes and not: on the iPhone you can group your icons on different "panels" or "pages"; for example you can have a panel with games, another with business related icons etc. .
In WM.6.5 you have icons that once clicked open another window with icons related to that group like "System" etc. In Wp7 if you use the arrow on the upper right corner of the main page and move to the next window you have a single, vertical line of icons sorted in alphabetical order; depending by the amount of program you have installed thie process to scroll down could be cumbersome. This post was edited by Fritzly on Friday, January 28, 2011 at 14:49. |
| #5 By 95132 (96.25.183.211) at 1/29/2011 10:59:57 AM |
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so they sold 2 mill in the first ~4mo of availability (dvoraks figure is not up to date), a update about ready to ship and another already in the pipeline, and overall decent reviews but the product line is just dead in the water now cause Dvorak of all people say so?
As #1 basically said, I've heard this tune so many times before, particularly from this author it's worth a chuckle. Now maybe wp7\wp8 end up crashing and burning in the end but it's way too early to be calling it dead in the water. ps. I do sometimes miss quatro pro; and MS didn't dominate when they first went up against lotus,quatro,wp, I don't recall them dominating till the suite wars started. |
| #6 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 1/31/2011 6:43:20 AM |
| I was a Multimate guy. |
| #7 By 2960 (72.205.26.164) at 1/31/2011 10:07:16 AM |
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There was at least one smart person behind MultiMate:
"(A company legend was that the MultiMate user manual was written first, by an experienced Wang WP manager, then the programmers were told to write software to match it, which is how the Wang WP was created.)" That is a brilliant way to write a software package. Apple has always used a similar concept, and it's one of the reasons why Apple Software is considered easier to use than most other platforms software. It has two basic rules: 1. You write the user interface first, then code to meet the requirements of the User Interface. 2. You never, ever, under any circumstances allow your core development team to write the user interface. If you look at just about any corporate software application written in-house, particularly Oracle front-ends, you can see the exact 180 degree opposite of these simple rules, and it becomes clear very quickly why in-house corporate software is some of the worst written software in existence. |
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