

The list of things that Windows Phone 7 can't do grows







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RE: Not Good Enough
By drycrust3 on 9/25/2010 2:04:54 PM , Rating: 2
When I heard about the funeral thoughts of Hitler toasting the defeat of the Russians at Stalingrad came to mind, especially as he was toasting their defeat just before the Russians launched their counter-attack.
Microsoft doesn't have a product that no one else has, or a product that is equal to what others have but they can market it better, or a product which is slightly inferior but they can supply it cheaper, which was what happened in the past.
Instead they will have a product for sale while their competition already is supplying cheaper; they have a product that is holding back manufacturers, but their competition is on hardware that is selling in huge numbers; they have a product that is perceived as inferior and costs more; and they have a product that is crawling to a launch date while their competitors have done several major upgrades.
My guess is by the time they launch they will have pretty well missed the boat for tablets as well.
Shortly after that, they will have to devote huge resources to dealing with a rising tide of malware, which will push users into running other OSes that are much more malware resistant.

