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>If there's one consistent pattern to OS platforms (MSFT or otherwise) is that you can expect your OEMs to completely manhandle and abuse it. It's not easy to
by recoiledsnake 15y ago
>If there's one consistent pattern to OS platforms (MSFT or otherwise) is that you can expect your OEMs to completely manhandle and abuse it.
It's not easy to manhandle and abuse WP7. No one can preinstall running services and non-uninstallable(!) apps like on Android. All OEMS/carriers get is a longer tile on the homescreen that can be removed/uninstalled with a long press. There are strict minimum hardware requirements. I think MS learnt the lesson from the PCs.
>Is it any surprise that the most sought after phones have all been vertically integrated?
Care to back that up? The only recent example is iPhone. RIM and WebOS are either slow or going down. The counter examples are Android which seem to be doing VERY well and displacing iPhone/Symbian/RIM as the top dog.
- tzs 15y agoWhat Android phone has been among the "most sought after phones"? From all the reports I've seen, no particular Android phone is sought after they way iPhone is currently sought after, or the way Blackberry was once sought after.
- CrazedGeek 15y agoThe Droid (aka Milestone) and Evo 4G were both pretty sought-after.
- potatolicious 15y agoI disagree - we're talking about at least an order of magnitude difference in "sought after". The Droid, Evo 4G, and now the Galaxy 2 are all highly sought after phones... in the smartphone enthusiast community. Which at the end of the day is just a subset of the "gadget/tech enthusiast" community, which is a tiny subset even then of the greater population. The cachet and demand of the Evo 4G to, say, the iPhone, or BlackBerry during its heyday, are completely different.
- recoiledsnake 15y agoFrom where are you getting your numbers? http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31410/Day-74-Sales-Apple-iPhone-vs-Google-Nexus-One-vs-Motorola-Droid http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31410/Day-74-Sales-Apple-iPhone-v... The phones you listed have HUGE worldwide demand. While it may not eclipse iPhone because it's one device, they're nothing to sneeze at, and the demand goes way beyond geeks. Is there some place where you're getting your hard data? http://gadgetizor.com/samsung-galaxy-s-2010-sales-figures-10-million/6400/ http://gadgetizor.com/samsung-galaxy-s-2010-sales-figures-10... http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-passes-5m-sales-worldwide-27167632/ http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-passes-5m-sales...
- metachris 15y agoThe Samsung Galaxy S was and is a highly sought after device too. To a lesser extent also the Nexus S.
- zyb09 15y agoWell yeah that's the whole point of vertical integration. To create one or just a few very polished "sought after" devices. In horizontal integration you have many phones, some might be sought after more than others, but the user-base is distributed along all devices. Both models can work well as seen with the success of iOS and Android.