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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Blah... Why does MS think the world needs another phone OS?
Who's going to buy these? You could have the greatest os in the world, but if you don't have users, you won't have developers, and the OS is going to be useless.
Way too late in the game for this offering. This platform has about a .5% chance of succeeding and lasting more than a year or two.
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Did you say the same thing about Android? It came to life in a market with incumbents that included RIM and Apple, and did OK.
MS thinks the world needs another phone OS because its an growth market. Having 20% share of a multi-billion dollar market is better than 0% share. They also have assets they want to leverage like Bing, Sharepoint, Office, Office Live, Office communicator, maps, Zune subscription media, Xbox Live, MSN messenger, etc. Further out, they have other interesting assets they could tie in like Windows Home Server, Windows Media Centre, etc. Hotmail, by the way, was recently made ActiveSync compatible, so they have a push email system in place for consumers out of the box, something that BIS doesn’t provide, Apple charges for (MobileMe), and Android maybe supports (not sure)