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We could just as easily say "twice in 2 years, or once every year" since the first WP7 devices shipped in late 2010 and WP8 will be out by end of 2012.
by glhaynes 14y ago
We could just as easily say "twice in 2 years, or once every year" since the first WP7 devices shipped in late 2010 and WP8 will be out by end of 2012.
- freehunter 14y agoThat's ignoring the long history of Windows Mobile from 2002 to 2010 though.
- onetwothreefour 14y agoThat history is irrelevant since we're talking about Windows Phone and not Windows Mobile. Did HN get over-run by MS employees or something? What the hell is going on! :)
- freehunter 14y agoI believe the original statement was "Windows on a phone". If Windows Mobile (Windows CE) doesn't count, Windows Phone 7 (also Windows CE) doesn't either. Windows Mobile 6.1 through 6.5 was actually branded Windows Phone. Maybe people are just realizing that the Microsoft of the Xbox era isn't the same as the Microsoft of the Windows 9x era and the grass isn't always greener on the Apple side. Maybe people are just sick of hearing the same anti-Microsoft circlejerk and facts-be-damned arguments. Hell, I'm a Linux user and I get pissed. Even when MS comes out with a good, competitive product, the Internet cries "failure!" before it's even released. "Why doesn't Microsoft just copy Apple?" "OMG Microsoft just copied Apple!" For the record, I felt the same way when the Internet started bashing on ChromeOS and the iPad before giving it a chance.