Windows Phone getting burned by carriers just like BB10
We here on CB have noted the poor support and care for BB10 products from carriers for a long time (remember the stories of Z10's sitting in storage at some carrier stores on BB10 launch day?).
It should come as no surprise that Windows Phone, another fledging competitor to the iOS / Android duopoly is apparently faring no better.
How can any new mobile OS gain traction?
As Ed Bott of ZDNet says in his article (titled: "Why have I given up on Windows Phone? Blame Verizon") :
"If the problems with Windows Phone as a platform were as simple as Microsoft getting their product strategy together, it would probably be easy to fix. But that focus ignores the real problem.
This isn't an equal partnership between Microsoft and U.S. mobile carriers, except perhaps in the most technical sense.
Thanks to Microsoft's minuscule market share (small single-digit percentages in the U.S.), the carriers have almost no interest in collaborating with it on mobile devices. And Microsoft has almost no leverage when negotiating with carriers."
Slow OS updates :
"In the official announcement of [the WP 8.1] release, Microsoft proudly listed features that would be coming to the Lumia Icon "in the coming weeks."
That was five months ago. And yet, if you are a Verizon customer who owns a Lumia Icon today, you are probably still running the Windows Phone 8.0 release."
?Why have I given up on Windows Phone? Blame Verizon | ZDNet
This article should sound VERY familiar to BB10 users.
*Note* : The snippets above are not the whole article.
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