Marketwatch's John Dvorak: Low Hopes for Microsoft's Phone 7

[Squilliam]

Slimebeast said:

Squilliam said:

I thought Windows Phone 7 looked pretty interesting personally. They had some good ideas and much of their execution looks well done. If you gave the average smart phone user a WP7 phone and told them they HAD to use it, I don't think you'd get too many complaints.

Well that's the thing. Not only does it look pretty interesting, but you might even say it looks awesome and better than the iPhone and yet it will fail because it's nearly impossible to break into the smart phone market now.

Everywhere I look I see a person with an iPhone.

I hear about people here checking out the Ericsson Xperia X10 (Android) and saying it looks real nice but still they decide to buy an iPhone even though it costs 300 Euros more.

People said that about Android...

Personally I don't expect it to set the world alight but Microsoft have some innate advantages which will allow them to carve up a decent segment of the market to build off. They don't have to beat Android/iPhone with this release, they just need to get the ball rolling in their direction.