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By: Where is Android at WMC2009? « DailyDigital

Where is Android at WMC2009? « DailyDigital — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:01:17 +0000

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By: Google fans fail to contemplate why Android is free — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:09:24 +0000

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By: Why Microsoft Will Slaughter Its Windows Mobile and PC Partners, and What it Means for Apple and Google — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:27:43 +0000

[...] of originality. Haha no. Microsoft’s Zune, Vista, and Windows Mobile 7 Strategy vs the iPhone Did Microsoft kill Android at Mobile World Congress 2009? Microsoft’s Basic Vaporware Strategy. That Windows Mobile roadmap sounds more like a scenic [...]

By: PhilipWing

PhilipWing — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:23:07 +0000

I work with an IT shop that doesn’t recognize what it’s dealing with: over 100,000 people who are for now, not under their control. Their internal mobile applications are moving from Palm OS to Windows Mobile, a move which is over a year late from their original publicized release date. I, my upline, and her upline all have iPhones and use them extensively. I guess we’ll all get AT&T family plans and have a Windows Mobile beast just for those useful (but butt ugly) internal applications.
I wonder if the IT department demanding enterprise control (not yet done) on our Windows Mobile phone for which *we* paid would constitute being employees… :)

By: BondBuzz · Musings on Mobile World Congress

BondBuzz · Musings on Mobile World Congress — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:13:57 +0000

[...] Yet I didn’t see one Android handset that was ready, actually commercially available. Was Microsoft responsible for killing Android? [...]

By: Why Windows 7 on Netbooks Won’t Save Microsoft — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:48:12 +0000

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By: Weinig Android-nieuws in Barcelona? Microsoft zat erachter! > Nieuws > Androidplanet.nl

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:47:41 +0000

[...] Roughly Drafted denkt dat er meer gaande is: de Windows Mobile Bug. Of beter gezegd de Nigeriaanse Bribe Bug: Microsoft zou toestelmakers op Mobile World Congress hebben omgekocht, net zoals ze eerder de Nigeriaanse overheid omkochten om Classmate-pc’s met Windows aan te schaffen. Dat is nogal een zware en slecht onderbouwde beschuldiging. Maar gelukkig komt het allemaal goed, aldus de website: bedrijven als LG en HTC ontdekken vanzelf dat het ongunstig is om nog langer te betalen voor Windows Mobile, als Android en Symbian gewoon gratis te krijgen zijn. Voor alle duidelijkheid: het hierboven gegeven standpunt c.q. de samenzweringstheorie rond Microsoft’s bemoeienis op Mobile World Congress is van de website Roughly Drafted, niet van de redactie van Planet Android. Vorige nieuwsitem [...]

By: jodyfanning

jodyfanning — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:31:16 +0000

The problem with all this analysis and comments is that it is totally US-centric.

Android is most definitely not big in Europe. Apart from the UK it has almost no presence at all. Vodafone launching one Android model does not change things. Mostly Vodafone just likes to have OEM models under its own brand to keep the other manufacturers in line.

Check out sometime the actual figures for smartphone shipments globally to see the real situation. Q3 2008 Nokia has more shipments of smart phones than the next three (RIM, Apple, MS) put together. So they don’t have much in the US, but you will find that mostly they don’t care. The US market is so small compared to the other global markets.

The 800lb gorilla in the room in the mobile market is NOT Microsoft. It is Nokia.

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Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:52:53 +0000

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By: Microsoft: HTC has made 80% of all Windows Mobile phones — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:21:13 +0000

[...] company said it wouldn’t delay its Android phones planned for release this summer, but also wouldn’t be showing them at WMC. Instead, the company promoted its new co-marketing relationship with Microsoft, including a new [...]