WP7 beats Android & iPhone 4S for phone of the year.

[Euphoria14]

famousringo said:

Euphoria14 said:

Yes, I understand that, but I still think that there are others more suited for "Best Manufacturer" besides Apple.

There are companies out there that not only design their products, but also build the parts for it are there not?

Are there not other companies that not only design and build their own product, but also build products for their competitors?

 

I just disagree with how they may have come to their conclusion of Apple being the top dog in that category.

 

Who knows, I may be competely wrong in what I am saying and they are basing this entirely off of Apple and their iOS, considering how most Android OS are not much more than modified code given by Google? Apple unlike Samsung, HTC, etc... created their OS by themselves.

Samsung and HTC do a fair amount of development on their custom UIs, built-in apps, and integrating their hardware with the software. If a little tweaking of the Android source was all that was required, I would think official Android software updates would not be such a rare thing.

But for an award like "Best Manufacturer", they're probably going off of things like build quality, product support, maybe reliability and customer satisfaction. Apple's big advantage here is the support network provided in Apple stores.

I was always under the impression that updates were only a rare thing to Samsung customers.