The Hazy Future Of Phones

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 08:40 AM

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#2 BillRichards

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 08:50 AM

Quality!

#3 ApostolosAkuod

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 09:15 AM

Great points all around. Could you write an article about these "analysts" and explain to us how they get paid, and why they make such ridiculous "forecasts?"

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 09:39 AM

See, told you! I commented on that last article about the 2015 Windows prediction, and even remembered the earlier bogus article that was so wrong. And to find out they are from the same source - what a surprise. Microsoft isn't doing the right things to gain market share. Their OS is slow and reboots often. They alienated their developers by making Win 7 phone incompatible with Windows Mobile, so all apps had to be rewritten.

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 09:42 AM

LOL, how in the world do they see Windows Phone going from 1% to 16%. That's funny, I thought they stop production of Windows Phone all together

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 10:12 AM

Jump from 2 to 9% in 2012 kind of bold, but I hope it gets there. Wh7 is definitely brightest if not best mobile OS today. Like it a lot.

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 10:27 AM

ApostolosAkuod, on 23 January 2012 - 09:15 AM, said:

Great points all around. Could you write an article about these "analysts" and explain to us how they get paid, and why they make such ridiculous "forecasts?"

#8 WallyDuke

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 12:31 PM

PCWorld said: "Wouldn’t the quality of discussion about the mobile market improve meaningfully if research companies stopped making these forecasts -- or at least if the rest of us stopped taking them seriously?"

You are the one reposting this nonsense and leading anyone foolish enough to buy it to read what they otherwise would probably have never see.

My question:

Wouldn’t the quality of discussion about the mobile market improve meaningfully if tech journalists had something orignal and thoughtful to say rather that just reposting others nonsense and then complaining about it?

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 05:23 PM

I would like to see full disclosure by pundits making such predictions....do they hold the stock in any companies mentioned? Where do they get their funding?

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 05:56 PM

someinternetdude, on 23 January 2012 - 09:42 AM, said:

LOL, how in the world do they see Windows Phone going from 1% to 16%. That's funny, I thought they stop production of Windows Phone all together

No you didn't. You troll too many windows phone articles to not be aware that they're still in production and selling increasingly well.

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 06:42 AM

Microsoft is betting that the software integration model will increase their market share. Microsoft is late to the game but they do have an advantage that they dominate the computer OS market. If they can integrate well enough those projections will come true.

There are basically 3 models in the phones in the time period in the article.

1. Apple's model - hardware integration which means controlling hardware.

2. MS model - software integration and no control over the hardware.

3. Google (Android) no software controls (open source) and no hardware controls.

They all have disadvantages as Android OS is fragmented and a little. MS now controll over hardware can cause incompatibilites. Apple you are forced to buy Apple hardware and software.

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