Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for Microsoft

Re:Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for M... by untog on Thursday June 21, 2012 @12:42PM (#4142845)

The issue is the timing of this. The Nexus One was introduced in Jan 2010, ICS was released in, what, March 2012? Over two years difference. I had a Nexus One at the time, and while I was disappointed, I'd got two years of use (key point here: two years is the typical cellphone contract length) out of my phone. Not so for people who bought a Lumia 900 when it was released in April of this year.

The issue from a PR perpsective is that MS don't seem to be controlling the story here. Will WP8 apps work on 7.8? Sources are totally conflicted. Will 7.8 do multitasking? No-one knows. MS should have been all over this out of the gate- explaining exactly what 7.8 users are getting. Instead everyone is resorting to rumour and assuming the worst.

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Re:Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for M... by jsnell on Thursday June 21, 2012 @03:38PM (#4143827)

Letting people assume the worst seems perfectly rational if that worst case is actually true, and 7.8 is just a minor cosmetic upgrade. At least it means there will be some apologists around muddying the waters by claiming that 7.8 will be more significant.

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Re:Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for M... by redsymbol on Thursday June 21, 2012 @12:55PM (#4142937)

Good point about the difference in timing! Who knows what info Microsoft has that we don't; but for brand-trust reasons, it seems important to update at least the Lumias to WP8, if at all technically possible.

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Re:Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for M... by mc32 on Thursday June 21, 2012 @01:16PM (#4143081)

Or at least offer vouchers (with proof, of course --which carrier would have) toward the purchase of a WP8 system so that people don't feel duped.

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