Haha, far from it! I do like certain aspects of the 4S (but I HATED the 4) but my phone is still the Blackberry.

While their desktop market share is still significant (although that has more to do with company policies rather than what people actually prefer to use) and Nokia is bleeding heavily .... They had no choice but to jump at whatever was thrown at them in terms of new business. And most importantly - there are emotional aspects involved in choosing a phone ... something that doesn't exist the same way in the computer world (unless you have an Apple) - and Microsoft can never, ever compete there. I fail to even see their intended target audience. The corporate world that still uses Exchange servers?

 

Emotional my a$$. A lot of non nerdy types will gladly pick up a white or Cyan Lumia 900 phone for 49 bucks. The empire is striking back.

 

And how is your turbo doing?

 

Good my friend, GT3 gone?

 

I deal with app developers on a daily basis

This is the order of importance to them

iOS
Android
Java/Symbian






windows




I'm headed up to AppNation tomorrow in NYC, I'm willing to bet I hear little from people asking us to start windows support

 

Keep us posted HB.

 

Nokia? Nokia has lost smartphone marketshare so fast their heads spun. They laid off a ton of people in the recent past. I would not consider them a premium hardware vendor at this point, certainly not while they are in the shadow of Apple, HTC, and others.

Microsoft's enterprise market share is also slipping quickly. As far as client systems, many large and small companies are switching to Apple. Many of those same companies are moving away from Exchange and other supporting software as quickly as they can too. Microsoft is losing marketshare in every segment, if they can't even hang on in markets where they had once established dominance I highly doubt their ability to succeed in a market where they are starting as the underdog.

This isn't to say that Apple is perfect, but they know how to provide something that people actually want instead of forcing people to use something that sucks (which is what microsoft has done for years with a reliance on their size).

 

Wow just read the entire thread and learned a lot. I had the opposite issue with the upgrade. Prior to upgrade I couldn't browse google images via Safari. I couldn't click on a pic or go to the next page, after the upgrade it works fine. I also didn't know that I should wait a few days for upgrading, I always click ok whenever a new upgrade is available.

 

so, after a few days in NYC for AppNation, the talk about Windows Phones was basically non-existent. Everything was iOS, Android, or HTML 5 multi platform.

 

btw, anyone notice the battery draining VERY fast with this update?