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No, he's right. Nearly no one is buying an "Android" phone. They're buying Sony Ericsson, Samsung, HTC, etc. The're buying brands they trust. Honestly, if M
by danssig 15y ago
No, he's right. Nearly no one is buying an "Android" phone. They're buying Sony Ericsson, Samsung, HTC, etc. The're buying brands they trust.
Honestly, if MS could just see this is and would make a nice deal with these phone vendors to get Windows on their phones I think Android would be down to a few percentage market share within a year.
- AndrewDucker 15y agoSamsung and HTC make Windows Phones. Sony Ericsson is also talking about making them. Nobody seems to be buying them.
- danssig 15y agoGive it time. They are very nice, unlike the amateurish Android look and the advantages you get from the development environment can't be ignored forever.
- bad_user 15y agoIn my country, Vodafone and Orange, the biggest mobile carriers in Europe are doing commercials for Android phones like crazy. And in every commercials I've seen, the Android brand is emphasized, which doesn't happen when they are promoting feature phones with Symbian or whatever. That people aren't buying Androids, that's a myth promoted here on HN that I haven't seen in the wild.
- danssig 15y agoCompanies may be advertising it, but users don't know and don't care. I know tons of people who own Android phones and not one of them bought it because it was "Android". They all bought out of brand loyalty or physical specs. Half of them didn't even know what "Android" meant. When they see the same brand they trust with a much more polished, professional looking OS that has much better games, etc., they'll jump in a heartbeat. MS just has to get the price low enough that the vendors will feel compelled to push it at least half as hard as they're trying to ram Android down everyone's throats.