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I guess this guarantees that the install base will be > 503. As someone who lives in Seattle and knows a lot of people at Microsoft it'll be interesting to see
by Timmy_C 16y ago
I guess this guarantees that the install base will be > 503.
As someone who lives in Seattle and knows a lot of people at Microsoft it'll be interesting to see if they give up their iPhones so easily.
- altano 16y agoI don't know anyone on my 115 person team who isn't at least excited to give it a shot and see if it's better, including the more ardent iPhone fans among us, of which I count myself as one.
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- rbanffy 16y ago> if they give up their iPhones so easily. It's a choice between their jobs at Microsoft and their phones. I'd keep the phone.
- Timmy_C 16y agoYou make it sound like they'll be fired if they don't use their new phones. I feel 99% confident that won't be the case. I'll give you an anecdote: Google employees got G1's on launch day and I know that my buddy gave his to his wife (a non-google employee). He's still happily employed.
- rbanffy 16y agoIt's an exaggeration. I seriously doubt Microsoft would fire their employees for not using Microsoft technology, but I would also see the phones as serious dog-fooding. Microsoft needs to know what's wrong with windows mobile that makes nobody want it and it's obvious whatever they had been doing prior to w7p wasn't working at all. What w7p will become is unknown and its success is far from sure. It's more likely market share will keep eroding, undermining their desktop market share even further.
- Timmy_C 16y agoI like your point about dog-fooding.
- Andys 16y agoIts quite common where I work (Australia) for people to carry two phones: a work-supplied phone (often a Blackberry or cheap Nokia) and a personal phone (often an iPhone).
- megablast 16y agoI would not say that was common at all. Working in several large offices, I have never seen this. I have seen people diverting their home/office number to the other device. I am the only person I know who carries around more than one phone, and people to look at me weird.
- theBobMcCormick 16y agoThat's very common where I work as well (Denver, Co,USA). Many of my co-workers (I work in IT), carry a work Blackberry and some kind of personal phone.
- lallysingh 16y agoThe Redmond Apple Store is (or at least was) the highest-grossing store Apple had.
- bmalicoat 16y agoThere is no Apple Store in Redmond. The nearest one is Bellevue which gets a lot of traffic from Seattle proper as well as from Redmond.
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- natmaster 16y agoAs a Microsoft employee, I resent that statement. I use a Nokia N900, thank you very much.
- Timmy_C 16y agoSorry for the generalization. Among the 10 Microsoft employees I know, 9 of them have iPhones. I was pondering what their behavior might be in this scenario. Given a free brand new phone would they stop using their current iPhone 4 in favor of this new device. (Because I know they don't use their free Zunes.) That outcome could speak to the overall potential success of the phone.