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Windows Phone 7 Doomed? Actually, It’s Just Getting Started
GeekedAbout.com ^ | November 10, 2010 | Brian X. Chen

Posted on 11/30/2010 1:16:38 PM PST by SmokingJoe

Despite entering a crowded market, Microsoft’s brand-new Windows Phone operating system seems off to a healthy start. Nonetheless, the estimates aren’t impressing cynical tech journalists.

“The anemic sales number does not include the 89,000 Microsoft employees that will be given free Windows 7 phones,” Moritz quips.

CNET reporters added their bleak perspective based on the performance of a single AT&T store in San Francisco (where every hipster in sight is already fondling an iPhone), which sold fewer than 20 Windows devices by midday.

“If Microsoft hopes to get back in the smartphone game, it had better hope that Windows Phone 7 makes a bigger impact than it appeared to be having at one AT&T store here,” they wrote.

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A fairer comparison would be launch numbers. The first iPhone shipped 250,000 units during its launch weekend, according to an analyst’s estimates. That number seems more substantial, but this was when nothing like the iPhone was already on the market.

I couldn’t find firm launch sales for the first Android phone (the T-Mobile G1), but the more popular Droid smartphone was estimated to ship 100,000 units during its launch weekend. That’s a full weekend, not one day — and if 40,000 more Windows phones shipped on day two, then Windows Phone 7’s launch would have performed nearly as well as the Droid.

- snip - Sure enough, AT&T and T-Mobile spokespeople contacted by Wired.com said their companies were pleased with early demand of Windows Phone 7 handsets, though they declined to disclose figures.

This all makes the pile of “doom and gloom” stories about Windows Phone 7 look silly (as was the case with the “iPhone is doomed” stories.)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: android; iphone; windowsphone7
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people made fun of the xbox and said it was doa.

people made fun of explorer and said netscape would eliminate windows.

people made fun of windows 3.0 and said apple’s wysyg would wipe microsoft off the face of the earth.

people said wordperfect was never going to be beaten by ms word

don’t count them out yet.

(and don’t forget the zune fiasco)


21 posted on 11/30/2010 3:08:33 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: SmokingJoe

bump for later


22 posted on 11/30/2010 3:11:48 PM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: ari-freedom
I want MS office on my phone but I don’t want Office in name only.

Documents To Go is good enough for mobile. What else do you need?

23 posted on 11/30/2010 8:32:41 PM PST by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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