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Tasting the Ice Cream SandwichTasting the Ice Cream SandwichPosted May 16, 2012 23:28 UTC (Wed) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)In reply to: Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich by anselm Parent article: Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich
anselm: Consumers will buy all sorts of strange stuff... No, they won’t. If they did. Windows Phone would not be languishing in fifth or sixth place, well behind Samsung Bada. Android succeeded because it was the one platform that encouraged open-slather competition. Having a ready-made, adaptable OS lowered the cost of trying out risky new ideas. And handset makers were truly free to try out whatever ideas they wanted, regardless of what Google might have wished (Android 2.x tablets, anybody?). Most of them failed and were forgotten. But there were enough successes to make people realize that here was a platform to be taken seriously. And so success built on success, and we have reached the situation today where Samsung has knocked Nokia off its perch as the world’s number-one mobile-phone maker.
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Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich Posted May 18, 2012 5:55 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]
You know what, if they called it anything other than "Windows Phone" (or any other name with Windows in it), the current Windows phones would probably have a chance. After all, the iPhone isn't "MacPhone" and Androids aren't "Linux Phone."
Call it something else and strongly de-emphasize the fact it comes from Redmond, and it'd probably sell.
(I still mourn the loss of Maemo, personally.)
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