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Re:Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1 by afsina on Thursday May 19, 2011 @04:12PM (#2565256)
So, does that mean more Android phones are sold in just 5 days? (Edited grammar.)
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Re:Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1 by r00fus on Thursday May 19, 2011 @04:45PM (#2565336)
> so android phones sell more in just 5 days?

No, Android devices activate more in 5 days. Still not clear to me what "activation" means. These two measures aren't directly comparable: http://www.simplemobilereview.com/what-does-apple-mean-by-de...

That said, Microsoft still selling more WinMo devices than WP7 is a telling sign of their poor mobile strategy.

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Re:Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1 by kenjackson on Thursday May 19, 2011 @04:49PM (#2565347)
That said, Microsoft still selling more WinMo devices than WP7 is a telling sign of their poor mobile strategy.

I'm unclear how they're related? Windows Mobile is targeted at the enterprise while WP7 isn't. The relative performance doesn't really say much.

WP7's numbers vs Android/iOS are telling of their mobile strategy, but not their numbers vs WM6.x.

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Re:Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1 by afsina on Thursday May 19, 2011 @04:49PM (#2565351)
I think that means real device sales numbers may even be higher.
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Re:Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1 by Steko on Thursday May 19, 2011 @06:10PM (#2565553)
It means that WP7 is probably selling about as well as Android was at the same timeline from release and writing them off as a failure today would be dumb given how much Android grew with 2nd and 3rd generation devices and how the OS improved with another year plus of iterations.
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