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Update: Windows smartphone shipments nose-dive after strategic retreat (down 35% from 2014)
ComputerWorld ^
| Nov 18, 2015
| Gregg Keizer
Posted on 11/18/2015 6:25:50 PM PST by dayglored
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Wow, what the heck happened?? Is everybody waiting for Windows 10 to hit the phones?
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posted on
11/18/2015 6:25:50 PM PST
by
dayglored
To: dayglored; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; Alas Babylon!; amigatec; ...
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posted on
11/18/2015 6:26:40 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: Swordmaker; ThunderSleeps; ShadowAce
You guys may want to ping your lists on this one...
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posted on
11/18/2015 6:27:30 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
Too bad because the Nokia WP that I have has been a good phone. Now, I'm looking at the Blackberry Priv since the battery seems to be going on the Nokia. The Priv is an Android, which doesn't thrill me, but it sounds like it is a good phone.
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posted on
11/18/2015 6:32:39 PM PST
by
Major Matt Mason
(Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
To: dayglored
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posted on
11/18/2015 6:33:51 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: Major Matt Mason
>
Too bad because the Nokia WP that I have has been a good phone. I had a couple of terrific Nokia phones back in the days of analog cell phones. Switched to an LG flip phone and then to an iPhone. These days, Windows phones would have to convince me pretty hard to switch, but I don't hold anything against them. There are a few things I don't like about the iPhone, although not many. But I'll bet Windows 10 works pretty darn well on a phone.
I will say, though, that Nokia made great phones back in the day.
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posted on
11/18/2015 6:38:18 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
It's really down to Android and iOs. Microsoft was late to the party on this one. I remember when Steve Ballmer dismissed the iPhone when it was launched in 2007 and
actually made fun of it.
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posted on
11/18/2015 6:43:53 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
To: dayglored
I am.
I have been for several years.
The technology is finally close to hitting the market.
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posted on
11/18/2015 6:44:28 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: dayglored
Perhaps it is not the phone sales but the economy that is collapsing.
To: Kent1957
>
Perhaps it is not the phone sales but the economy that is collapsing. Not sure that explains it... the article claims the overall smartphone market is growing rather nicely...
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posted on
11/18/2015 6:59:47 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: Kent1957
Perhaps it is not the phone sales but the economy that is collapsing. It can't be that because Apple iPhone sales are booming. . . and they are more expensive.
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posted on
11/18/2015 7:00:16 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
To: dayglored
I have a Lumia 822 from Verizon, which didn’t ever push out the upgrade to 8.1. I did it myself by installing the developers SDK. I love it, but I wonder if Verizon will even have a Windows 10 phone. My Nokia is getting old. I want to replace it, and I can only use Verizon because no other network has coverage where I live.
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posted on
11/18/2015 7:03:05 PM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
To: dayglored
I’ve only seen one person so far using a Microsoft smartphone in all my time.
To: dayglored
What is even more amusing is this prognostication from Gartner in April 2011:
Hilarious. . . Gartner was convinced, and argued vociferously that Microsoft phones would be the number 2 smartphones by 2015 with a 19.5% market share and iPhones would be declining starting in 2012. . . and in third place. . . and that RIM would still be a significant player. ROTFLMAO!
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posted on
11/18/2015 7:09:19 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
To: dayglored
I use Windows in all my PCs. I have since Windows 95. I have no reason to use a Windows phone. I don’t draft a lot of documents or spreadsheets on my phone. Android works just fine.
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posted on
11/18/2015 7:10:40 PM PST
by
kennedy
(No relation to those other Kennedys.)
To: Swordmaker
>
...Gartner in April 2011... I would normally quip that "I'd like to have some of what they were smoking" but in fact it was clearly some pretty bad drugs... that's just so embarrassing it amazes me that they show their faces in public.
I'm reminded of that classic video of Ballmer laughing at the first iPhone that SamAdams76 posted above...
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posted on
11/18/2015 7:18:48 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
11/18/2015 7:42:03 PM PST
by
cynwoody
To: dayglored
That’s a shame. I actually like WP. It’s cleaner than android, a real alternative to iOS Android is a poor man’s iOS really. I like having alternatives. I suspect WP to go the way of the Zune soon.
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posted on
11/18/2015 7:48:03 PM PST
by
Paradox
(Not on the Trump Bandwagon, but I do enjoy the show.)
To: dayglored
To: MrEdd
I have been for several years. The technology is finally close to hitting the market.
Do you still have a Betamax?
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