| disolitude said: Looks pretty cool. If WP7 hardware looks that amazing, I may have to upgrade... |
Lookie dat, WP7 running on more or less the same hardware:
@Rainbird
1. That's actually a mark against WP7. MS doesn't need Nokia for its platform to succeed. What happens if Nokia hooks up to the WP7 train, but Samsung undercuts them on price and becomes the premiere manufacturer? How long will the special treatment last in that scenario? WP7 isn't turning the market on its head without Nokia. If it can transform the market with Nokia's help, why can't Nokia do it on their own?
2. Last I looked, the Ovi Store is still pretty far ahead of WP7 in app sales, and I could be mistaken, but I think MeeGo fully supports it. In fact, the last I saw, Ovi was actually larger than the Android market:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/861-5-percent-growth-android-puny/
This is a few months old, and WP7 was too young to get good data on, but I've heard no reason to believe that WP7's ecosystem is more vibrant than any of the app markets listed in that article. I'm also not convinced that Microsoft is a bigger name in cell phones than Nokia.
3. That's a reason to choose WP7 over Android, but it's not a reason to choose WP7 over MeeGo, which Nokia has even more freedom to modify than WP7.
There's room for disagreement here, but as far as I'm conerned, Nokia without its own software is a lot like Sega without its own hardware. It's dancing to somebody else's tune, and for somebody else's gain. There's no question that Nokia needed to do something to escape their downward spiral, but if MeeGo really is as good as it looks, I'm not convinced that wedding themselves to Microsoft was the best answer.
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