Why Is Windows Phone Losing? CONSUMERS DON'T WANT TO BE IDIOTS

Why Is Windows Phone Losing? CONSUMERS DON'T WANT TO BE IDIOTS
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-27/tech/30560524_1_android-charlie-kindel-apps


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So, when a consumer goes into a carrier store to buy a new phone, what is going on in the back of her/his head?


Android=safe.
iOS/iPhone=safe.
Everything else=not safe.

Why? Because all you had to do was come to my Christmas parties to see why. Everything around you showed that having an Android or an iPhone was “safe.”

When I go around interviewing startups I hear over and over that they are staying away from anything that isn’t Android or iOS based.

That means that any product not based on iOS or Android isn’t “safe.”

End of discussion. Until RIM or Microsoft changes that belief among app developers in a demonstrable way Microsoft will continue to struggle.

And don’t tell me that Nokia is gonna be able to change this in the developing world. Anyone who is on Twitter now can watch this search:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/apps

Go ahead. Put that search into a good Twitter client. Every second or two a new Tweet gets made. Now watch how many of them talk about anything but iOS or Android devices: nearly none.

I watch this search every day on StreamBoard on my iPad.

It shows why Charlie is so wrong: apps do matter and matter big time.

That will not change in 2012, no matter how much Microsofties (or ex-Microsofties) wish to hide from that problem.
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