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How Perception Will Kill Windows Phone

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Supersite for Windows; By Paul Thurrott
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While it's obvious that Windows Phone is stuck as a distant third in the smart phone ecosystem race, it's equally clear that the biggest danger to the platform isn't failure, but rather the perception of failure. And in a market in which the distant number two player, Apple, can do no wrong, Microsoft faces an uphill battle that it may never win.

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Comments (3)

This is hilarious. They're all completely missing the point. Everyone knows Microsoft makes terrible, buggy, unreliable software that is prone to attack from viruses and malware like no other company. You hear people complaining about them all the time and the only reason people continue to use them on the desktop is a perceived lack of choice, or laziness in learning a new system.

The phone market is different. It's easy to pick up a new phone and learn how to use it. So why on earth would people use something from Microsoft?

Microsoft were too late in getting to the smart phone market. LG started it and Apple marketed it best. Their forray into the tablet market is so expensive it makes Apple look cheap.

MS should give up on mobile devices and concentrate on milking their MS Office cash cow.

Oh, and MS fanboys complaining that lies are being told about Microsoft? Priceless.
No, no, no. MS should not give up on mobile devices. The more money they waste chasing their delusions, the sooner MS can be relegated to the dustbin of history.
> Oh, and MS fanboys complaining that lies are being told about Microsoft? Priceless.

{Applause}

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