Microsoft and Amiga Games Inc press release

[commodorejohn]

Take heart, he has to kick off some day.

[commodorejohn]

They have done everything they can to try and make it a success - and still nobody gives a crap.

They can keep banging their head against the wall indefinitely, but that's not going to make people want a Windows Phone.

[commodorejohn]

I have no death-wish whatsoever against Windows Phone. (So naturally you had to invent one for me.) I don't really give a crap about any of the smartphone OSes, I'm strictly a "place and take calls" feature-phone kind of person. But let's get real here: Windows Phone has, according to the most recent survey I can find, about 5% market share. They have pretty much one big-name vendor who ships it. Even if we only count the "Windows Phone" line and not the various godawful CE variants that were shipped on phones, Windows Phone 7 rolled out the door in 2010. That's three years where basically everything they've done has been an attempt to break into this market, and they're still at a point where 5% is good news for them.

[commodorejohn]

5% is nothing to be sneezed at. For well over a decade Apple made enviable profit from 5% of the PC market. And seeing how they're coming in late, with a sub-par OS/ecosystem, celebrating 5% seems like the sane thing to do, even for a giant like Microsoft.

Yeah, but Apple was the sole manufacturer/primary distributor of their systems; everything that wasn't base cost and store markup went right back to Apple. And on top of that, their prices were a good bit higher than those of the competition. How spendy are Nokia's offerings? How much of every dollar gets back to Microsoft on Windows Phone systems?

[commodorejohn]

In particular, who would want a "'natural soap' that's sitting unused on the bathtub in the house of that one weirdo retro-hippie vegan friend and the place always smells like some kind of revolting vegetable or maybe 'incense' I don't know?" brown phone?