Windows Phone is now a lot better
Compared to the disaster that was WinMo 6, sure.Thing is, Android / iOS cover pretty much every need of the smartphone market right now. The iPhone a well made, high-end, kick ass, user-friendly and kind of expensive product with tons of third-party support available. Android on the other hand is already selling big on cheaper phones, and although it is so popular and all the tools you'll ever need are open-source and well-made, still it doesn't have so many quality apps like iOS. But it's getting there. This is not like the XBox versus the PS3.
PS3 took a long time to market and was considerably more expensive (it has been gaining significant ground btw). This is also not like Windows versus Mac OS or OS/2. At that time Windows was the cheaper and the more versatile one. It is also not like IExplorer versus Netscape. Microsoft doesn't have much leverage on this industry, besides a handful of patents. And phone makers aren't stupid. They've been burnt already by mobile operators. This is too bad actually. My first mobile phone was a Nokia 3310, which I loved. Now the brand is dying. |