Take a deep breath, relax.
What the heck do you expect a 3rd tier phone supplier to say? “Gee, our phones sure suck; and we are stuck with a series of lemon mobile OS’s?” No, they are going to talk ‘up’ their product, despite the reality that their products are NOT being accepted by the market at the rates they claimed.
This isn’t the first time this song has played. We heard this song with the much ballyhoo’d HP Slate running Win7 Mobile. Ok, project cancelled and a year later re-launched running Android. Got it’s butt handed to them by iPad2 - now it’s on the heap with the other ‘over-hyped’ Blackberry Playbook, Folio, Samsung Galaxy, Motorola Xoom and others. They each boasted about how they were going to take over the market.
Time will tell. So, if you like Win Mobile Mango; by all means run out in a buying frenzy and purchase a dozen. Good luck with that.
Meanwhile, while everyone else is taking things to the Cloud for seamless synching - you can enjoy Multi-tasking on your shiny new Mango. Maybe in 2-3 years you will have what iOS and Android users have today; assuming MSFT doesn’t drop this, like the Kin phones, Zune and their Courier Tablet.
Fool me once, shame on you ....
Still beating about the bush and avoiding the question are are ya? You made the assertion, you back it up.
What do I expect a “3rd tier” supplier to say?
# 1. HTC is no “3 rd tier” to nobody. They are the second biggest Android smart phone makers on the planet, behind only the mighty Samsung. HTC’s sales, profits and market cap have exploded over the last couple of years, having overtaken even Nokia in market cap. The HTC EVO 4G is arguably superior to any iPhone.
# 2. HTC sell more Android phones than Windows phones, so why on earth would they say 30% of their smart phone sales are Windows phones if that is not the case? They are making much more money from Androids, no?