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> "The whole idea of bringing more people into Microsoft Cloud through these services is the very core of the strategy," Jussi Nevanlinna, vice-president of mob
by yourad_io 12y ago
> "The whole idea of bringing more people into Microsoft Cloud through these services is the very core of the strategy," Jussi Nevanlinna, vice-president of mobile phones product marketing at Microsoft, told the BBC.
That blade cuts both ways: By providing full/native MS cloud support on Android, you are allowing people who would otherwise be "locked in" to WP, to escape into Android.
Couldn't this potentially end up hurting their cloud services more than it helps?
- sirkneeland 12y agoIf you assumed they were at all likely to buy WP. But most of them were not. The choice MS faces is not "sell them WP or sell them Android" but "sell them Android or someone else will"