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post #21 of 41
5/23/12 at 10:10am
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LOL, fine.
My point was that Windows Phones are generally cheaper vs the iPhone, and in China that makes a big difference. I also noted that it's only $100 in North America, and it was FREE during the 1st 10 days that it launched, so again, a FREE / Cheap phone will boosts sales.
Plus, if we want to go into more detail, Apple hurts their own success in China by limiting the carriers.
iPhones aren’t sold to China Mobile’s 655 million subscribers, which is 70% of the Chinese market.
Yet, Windows Phone somehow claims this as a victory?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/21/windows-phone-outsells-apple-in-china/
Notice how the source article didn't mention any of these facts?
Samsung is still leading the way.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-11/iphone-fails-to-gain-china-share-as-samsung-lead-triples-tech.html
While Android is DOMINATING @ 70% market share in China.

M$ is pretty desperate to get WP7 to people. Their actions are proof enough.
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5/23/12 at 10:13am
So much hate for WP7 on here. I have a samsung focus and that phone is amazing. I absolutely love it.
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post #23 of 41
5/23/12 at 11:20am
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M$ is pretty desperate to get WP7 to people. Their actions are proof enough.
Smoked by windows phone, anyone? biggrin.gif

I will say, the Lumia 900 is the ONLY phone that I thought could compete with the aesthetics of the iPhone. Its sure is pretty. I went to AT&T to look at one, but they were out of stock. I generally like most of MS's handheld tuff. Some are great, some suck, just depends what you get. I still to this day will defend that Zune and the software for it was better than iTunes by a wide margin. One day I may convert back, lol. I still have my 30gb Zune
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post #24 of 41
5/23/12 at 4:42pm
From every review I've read. Windows phone vs iphone, windows phone > iphone ( funny just like windows vs macosx!) thumb.gif
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post #25 of 41
5/23/12 at 4:53pm
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Smoked by windows phone, anyone? biggrin.gif
I will say, the Lumia 900 is the ONLY phone that I thought could compete with the aesthetics of the iPhone. Its sure is pretty. I went to AT&T to look at one, but they were out of stock. I generally like most of MS's handheld tuff. Some are great, some suck, just depends what you get. I still to this day will defend that Zune and the software for it was better than iTunes by a wide margin. One day I may convert back, lol. I still have my 30gb Zune

Completely agreed with you there. In fact, the only reason I own a Windows Phone as well as a Zune HD rather than an iPhone/Touch is simply because of iTunes. Honestly, it's just awful, completely unreliable and much less user-friendly.
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post #26 of 41
5/23/12 at 9:40pm
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LOL, fine.

My point was that Windows Phones are generally cheaper vs the iPhone, and in China that makes a big difference. I also noted that it's only $100 in North America, and it was FREE during the 1st 10 days that it launched, so again, a FREE / Cheap phone will boosts sales.

Plus, if we want to go into more detail, Apple hurts their own success in China by limiting the carriers.

iPhones aren’t sold to China Mobile’s 655 million subscribers, which is 70% of the Chinese market.
Yet, Windows Phone somehow claims this as a victory?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/21/windows-phone-outsells-apple-in-china/

Notice how the source article didn't mention any of these facts?

Samsung is still leading the way.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-11/iphone-fails-to-gain-china-share-as-samsung-lead-triples-tech.html

While Android is DOMINATING @ 70% market share in China.
I suspected that was the reason. Apparently that's going to change soon though.
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post #27 of 41
5/23/12 at 9:51pm
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I suspected that was the reason. Apparently that's going to change soon though.

Yep, iPhone 5 should be compatible with SCDMA, I read somewhere that they under-estimated the demand for the iPhone in China. Apparently, there are about 15 Million iPhone users on China Mobile right now. Users buy unlocked phones and use them in 2G mode.
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post #28 of 41
5/23/12 at 10:00pm
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asia are sold to ms!most of what they buy is from ms!not because they cant have anything else but because it works all so smoothly together!imagine if they got w7,xbox 360 ,only thing missing is a smartphone from ms ,will they go buy android ,hell no!and to top it all off,the fact ms has facebook,skype all very nicelly integrated really hurt google!like some would say its too smooth! and people are already used to use skype relativly cheaply!.i bet the damage is done for competing alternative when word of mouth get out it will do the rest! i would love to like android but i am on my 5 th unit various generation etc and sadly apple and window phone are better alternative!the trouble with google is the spam of ads!nobody want to pay data usage for stuff they dont want in the first place no one.they ll pay higher price instead but dont want the ads and being charged for them!aspecially when you thing how low the mobile data package are

Actually that is just your opinion. In Japan people hate Xbox. In Korea the most popular phone maker is Samsung. In China there is a emerging rich class that buy whatever they think will boast their social status. This is include car, house, purse, phone... etc.
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Originally Posted by Kand View Post

M$ is pretty desperate to get WP7 to people. Their actions are proof enough.

Apple is pretty desperate to get Mac to people. Their actions are proof enough. Remember those bias Mac vs PC commercial?
Edited by Rotsae - 5/23/12 at 10:03pm
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5/23/12 at 10:03pm
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Yep, iPhone 5 should be compatible with SCDMA, I read somewhere that they under-estimated the demand for the iPhone in China. Apparently, there are about 15 Million iPhone users on China Mobile right now. Users buy unlocked phones and use them in 2G mode.
Heh really?! That's funny. Yeah hopefully it'll support Australian 4G frequencies too.
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post #30 of 41
5/23/12 at 10:21pm
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Being a $100 has nothing to do with it. rolleyes.gif

Any proof that a $100 Android headset has equal user satisfaction ratings?

If price is the culprit then we should find equal results for Android. Not sure if Apple offers any iPhones for $100, so I can't speak on that.
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