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Is your mom the target audience for this phone/os? I don't know, but my point is that not everything should be geared towards people who aren't interested or c

by cujo 17y ago

Is your mom the target audience for this phone/os? I don't know, but my point is that not everything should be geared towards people who aren't interested or can't keep up with tech.

pohl 17y ago
Which demographic has the greater profit potential?
- andrew1 17y ago
  Maybe you could make one phone for each demographic.
  - elai 17y ago
    The tech demographic can do just fine with the phones designed for the mom demographic.
    - mquander 17y ago
      Not as long as those phones are hard to run my own code on, I can't.
      - protomyth 17y ago
        If your talking about the iPhone, then getting your code to run on yours is easy. Getting distribution of your code to other phones is the hard part.
akshat 17y ago
Microsoft is definitely not looking at this short term. When they talk about a billion devices they are talking about being everything to everybody. So my guess would be that they would want my mom and everyone else all to use it. The other point about the "mom" argument is directly related to the "facebook login" issue, where complexity is not anything that anyone wants to deal with.
pkulak 17y ago
Android's already got the geek market. And it's a small market, so who would be silly enough to fight over the Apple scraps like that? Besides, how could this be a geek phone with no multitasking? And, that UI looks like it was designed by an impressionist painter with no regard to actually using the damn thing, so no normal phone user is going to like it. Way to exclude both user bases, Microsoft.
- akshat 17y ago
  Again, Android is not in the Geek market. It just happens that their aesthetics seem to appeal to geeks. Google would love my mom to be using an Android Phone.
- endtime 17y ago
  >Android's already got the geek market. They have? I'm a CS grad student and I know maybe two people with Android phones. Nearly everyone has an iPhone.

by cujo 17y ago

Is your mom the target audience for this phone/os? I don't know, but my point is that not everything should be geared towards people who aren't interested or can't keep up with tech.

pohl 17y ago

Which demographic has the greater profit potential?

andrew1 17y ago
Maybe you could make one phone for each demographic.
- elai 17y ago
  The tech demographic can do just fine with the phones designed for the mom demographic.
  - mquander 17y ago
    Not as long as those phones are hard to run my own code on, I can't.
    - protomyth 17y ago
      If your talking about the iPhone, then getting your code to run on yours is easy. Getting distribution of your code to other phones is the hard part.

akshat 17y ago

Microsoft is definitely not looking at this short term. When they talk about a billion devices they are talking about being everything to everybody. So my guess would be that they would want my mom and everyone else all to use it. The other point about the "mom" argument is directly related to the "facebook login" issue, where complexity is not anything that anyone wants to deal with.

pkulak 17y ago

Android's already got the geek market. And it's a small market, so who would be silly enough to fight over the Apple scraps like that? Besides, how could this be a geek phone with no multitasking? And, that UI looks like it was designed by an impressionist painter with no regard to actually using the damn thing, so no normal phone user is going to like it. Way to exclude both user bases, Microsoft.

akshat 17y ago
Again, Android is not in the Geek market. It just happens that their aesthetics seem to appeal to geeks. Google would love my mom to be using an Android Phone.
endtime 17y ago
>Android's already got the geek market. They have? I'm a CS grad student and I know maybe two people with Android phones. Nearly everyone has an iPhone.