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Here's Why Microsoft Should Kill The Windows Phone Brand (Rename it to something fun, like Mango)
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| 09/17/2011
| Matt Rosoff
Posted on 09/18/2011 8:41:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
“Well...we only carry the high-end smartphones. Windows is really old.”
Changing the name doesn’t make it not old.
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posted on
09/18/2011 8:47:28 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
To: SeekAndFind
Mango? MAN GO??? That is sooooooooo sexist!
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posted on
09/18/2011 8:51:50 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 971 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: null and void
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posted on
09/18/2011 8:54:42 AM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
( Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we can identify their corporate sponsors.)
To: ctdonath2
“Changing the name doesnt make it not old.”
I know what you mean. But WP7 is actually quite new. And the Mango version is not even released to American markets yet.
I am today programming a Mango-based app. It is a fabulous development environment with very powerful features (these phones can also run X-Box games.) Though literally zero non-beta U.S. users as yet. AFAIK.
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posted on
09/18/2011 8:54:42 AM PDT
by
BuddhaBrown
(Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
To: SeekAndFind
I would have called it the X Box phone because that’s the only microsoft brand that’s cool
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posted on
09/18/2011 8:58:00 AM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Thank you, Bob!)
To: BuddhaBrown
I don't think MS is going to gian much ground in the sub-PC device market (tablets / smartphones) with Windows 7.
Windows 8 could be a different matter.
Apple is going to miss WP7 the way they miss Vista.
To: SeekAndFind
Kill the windows phone? LOL...their doubling down with the same interface in Windows 8.
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posted on
09/18/2011 9:02:18 AM PDT
by
Michael Barnes
(Obamaa+ Downgrade)
To: ThomasThomas
And fruity too.Maybe they should give one to Obama?
MANgo, the phone for the fruityman!
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posted on
09/18/2011 9:03:30 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 971 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: ThomasThomas
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posted on
09/18/2011 9:04:12 AM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Thank you, Bob!)
To: ari-freedom
thank you...
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posted on
09/18/2011 9:09:06 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: SeekAndFind
As soon as the salesman said he was well-informed abou the upcoming iPhone 5, I knew everything out of his mouth was crap.
To: BuddhaBrown
mango isn’t released until january for USA
To: Erik Latranyi
I’d say 95% of all sales people are lazy idiots. I almost never trust a word out of their stupid mouths.
To: tacticalogic
mango is WP 7.5. Its different.
To: SeekAndFind
Maybe they can name it Bob.
To: SeekAndFind
Microsoft isn’t focusing on the US market - it’s reaching saturation as far as smarthphones go... It’s focusing on Asia, where there are still 1+ billion cellphone users who are potential smartphone users. And where Nokia traditionally - and still - dominates.
Nokia was the largest smartphone vendor in the world for a decade, and it was with essentially zero US market presence. Too many forget that between China, India, and SE Asia there are nearly 3.5 BILLION people - and cellphones are extremely prevalent in those countries.
If Windows Phone 7 just maintains the Nokia marketshare within China and India alone, it will grab 25% of world market share - and instantly leapfrog iOS and move into a strong second place behind Android.
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posted on
09/18/2011 9:41:08 AM PDT
by
FromTheSidelines
("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
To: mamelukesabre
mango is WP 7.5. Its different. Mango may make some inroads into the consumer market where WP7 failed, but it's still not an enterprise-class platform.
To: mamelukesabre
I've had a Windows phone since it came out and I love it. Windows Phone 7 is a brand new (actually 1 year old OS) and the new Mango release of the software is already rolling out to existing handsets right now. It will vary depending on the carrier when you get it but there are also a bunch of new handsets rolling out with Mango preloaded. The name may definitely cause confusion but it really is not related to the old windows Mobile OS in any way. The only thing I hate is that the browser renders Free Republic badly so I have to do a lot of pinching and zooming to read a story I click on.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/windows-phone-7-in-depth-preview/
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posted on
09/18/2011 9:57:59 AM PDT
by
bigtoona
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