Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Let’s just say I doubt that Nokia would have signed up. Windows Phone 7 was just the break that Microsoft needed. Whether the jump was made in time remains to be see. Sales are still up, even if they’re not as high as Redmond and their partners would want. I still think that Windows Phone is doing far better than Windows Mobile ever could.
…because Windows Phone 7 on my Lumia 800 is more than good enough and in some cases still out-performs Windows Phone 8. If Microsoft had sat down with a tiger team and shoehorned Windows Phone 8 into handsets like the Lumia 800, I fear it would have resulted in the same mish-mash of new features and diminished user experience as the iPhone 3G running iOS 4. There would be no doubt that the hordes of online writers demanding a 7.x to 8.x patch would say that this is the least that Microsoft could do with those who ‘supported the platform’,
Only Apple got there faster, but Microsoft’s new mobile platform passed 50,000 apps submitted to the Windows Marketplace. Lots of pretty graphs and more numbers from Rafe at All About Windows Phone (and more commentary by myself at Forbes).
