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| Authored by: jbb on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 01:11 PM EDT |
I won't be surprised if Elop's head rolls over this before too
long
He is doing exactly what was intended: ruin a potential
rivial (Nokia) and make it available to Microsoft at bargain basement prices.
They just have to do this same thing to Samsung, Apple, Motorola and all the
other handset manufacturers then Microsoft will be #1.
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Our job is
to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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| Authored by: mcinsand on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 02:28 PM EDT |
Oh, man, you're looking at it totally backwards. To achieve only a 10:1 loss
ratio, this is a stellar achievement over the Kin phone. Ballmer's position is
cemented for the foreseeable future, champagne corks will pop in Redmond, and
office chairs might be safe from a vindictive smashing... at least for a day or
two.
Regards,
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- Godwin's Law - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 05:11 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 02:38 PM EDT |
The mobile network threw its weight behind
the handset maker's
comeback device, the Lumia 900, with its
biggest-ever advertising blitz for a
phone: $150m, according
to Ad Age. Nokia also spent $25m on Lumias for
AT&T
employees.
Back-of-the-envelope numbers by blogger Horace
Dediu suggest
the mobe has made a negligible impact so far on the market,
however.
When operators invest heavily in promotion they expect some
return. Samsung shifted some 25 million units of its first
Galaxy phone
worldwide and last year’s successor is likely
to exceed
that.
AT&T blew all that money and the WP7 turned out
to be
just a beta test for the WP8. Do you suppose they will be
willing to lay
out that kind of cash again to promote the
WP8? I really doubt Microsoft could
talk them into it a
second time. And Nokia certainly won't have the cash on
hand
to promote WP8. What are they going to do - buy all the
salespeople WP8s
now? They don't have that kind of money to
burn any more.
Now
Microsoft isn't going to give up, but they will have
to start giving away their
phones, or paying people to use
them, because they won't be able to get their
partners to
spend big on promotion a second time around. They had their
chance, and they blew it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 03:10 PM EDT |
This fall or winter, the confluence of the failure of Windows 8 and the final
collapse of Nokia. Simultaneously. Well, then we can see if Elop overtakes
Ballmer as worst CEO. In the meantime, for the sake of Nokia's poor former
employees, I hope the independent Meego project gets some venture capital
support. Also, if you believe Tomi Ahonen, all Microsoft would have to do is get
rid of Skype, and carriers would welcome Windows phone with open arms. Hmm.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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