from what I am seeing around the net is that the tech crowd thinks this is a good engineered phone. (these are the same people who liked betamax)
The end users are not happy and are more inclined to drift to the android rather than another closed system like the iphone.
RIM was pounded on the stock market today.
Balmer should be making heads roll. Whoever thought of the convoluted cloud system as part of the OS as utitlity strategy should be banished to the former Giligan’s island.
I recently took the GF to an ATT store. She wanted an iPhone. She broke my old RAZR i gave her when i got my iphone 3gs. I also have an iPad, so she already had some, limited experience with an iDevice.
Anyway, they had a W7 phone display. The store was quite busy... NO ONE, I saw no one even looking at the w7 display. iPhones, Droid phones and blackberrys, but no W7s. And it’s not like they were stuck back in the corner either.
We had to go back a week later to see if her data could transferred from the dead RAZRs. No such luck. But again, no one looking at W7s.
A very small data sampling to be sure. But I thought it was interesting.
One more note: while I appreciate the open nature of the Droid OS (I run linux on my laptop), my phone is first and foremost a phone; I don’t want to have to worry about malware and viruses infecting it.
For that reason, I don’t mind the closed garden approach to the apple app store. If I want to hack something, I’ve got my laptop. But at least for my phone, I know the SW I put on it has been vetted to some degree.