Android’s Andy Rubin Is Worried About WP7′s Success
Last week we shared an article on how Gartner research company was in doubt about WP7 being successful overall. Sadly, they aren't the only ones. Other opinions are being spotted and were here to share them. Thanks to member darren.wlsn1 here at PPCGeeks for pointing this article out that is originally from PCMag.com.
Recently one of PCMag's reporters found time and a place to ask Andy Rubin, the leader of the Android Project and Vice President of engineering at Google, several questions pertaining to his opinions of the new WP7 platform and Androids as well.
Reviewing the interview comments, it seems that Rubin is a little worried about WP7 succeeding in the current phone industry, which is for the most part dominated by Android already. He states that he is very satisfied with the current flow and production of the Android platform. The many software versions available and updated releases keep consumers understanding and appreciating the main differences between each new release even more.
As far as Rubin's opinion on WP7, with Android being so successful he is not sure that the world will even need another platform, especially if there aren't major differences that this device can do compared to Android devices. He does however think it's great for consumers to be able to have a selection of platforms to chose from.
If WP7 would target the devices performance at things other devices don't do, maybe Rubin's & consumers' opinions would be different. What do you think? Will WP7 be successful?
Source: PCMag
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No.
I don’t know about this one…It’s like asking the Colonel what’s his opinion on Popeye’s chicken, Lol!
It sounds more like he has a grudge against M$ for what happened to Danger rather then “afraid”…
It might be like Android. When Android first came it out it was like ..meh. If Microsoft keeps developing and improving on it it may get some ground. I just don’t think it has much of its own personality and ways it really sets itself apart. It lost what made WM different, which is its ability to customize down to the very details, modifying registries and system files. With that gone, WP7 is just an operating system that does the same things as other phones, just differently. As a regular user, like an iphone user, if you wanted to sale him a WP7, how would you do it? It plays games! “Well my iphone already plays games” . Its got tiles! Ok, big deal. What else? I’d have a hard time selling it.
MS can never do what Android did… 4 platform upgrades in 3years.. even iPhone did 4 in 4 years… i bought a mogul NIB when they came out 3+years ago.. it had 6.0 on it… by mid summer, 6.1 came-gave us gps and Pic Mail finally… here we are over 2 and a half years later, and it only got to 6.5…. on the brink of 7… MS is SLLLLOOOOOWWWWW..
The dude from Android is right.. if WP7 doesnt have something you cant do on others, then whos really gonna care?? what, the 5% at best of overall consumers that frequent sites like these?? thats not enough users to even make your money back lol
noone cares about ZUne… ooooohhh Zune HD OMG…FAILED!!! so noones gonna give a shit Zune is integrated into the device..
and unless your gonna be able to flat out play your XBOX games, how many people really care about whos online, and all their gamer stats and stuff when theyre not actually playing?? surely not enough to make a big impact in driving sales either… its not like xbox is the only console.. i mean shit, if your an iTunes and PS3 junkie-have the features of a WP7 device wouldnt even appeal to you, ya know??
i just dont see at this point, what WP7 is planning as a marketing strategy… “hey our phone does things Most every other phone can do-we just look different and develop things alot slower”
-sorry need to stop smokin an reading the news posts, i get lengthy lol
I personally don’t hold much hope out for WinMo7. Seems they went more iPhone than they should have. The tile system is not all that impressive.
Android took the middle ground between Apple and MS. It is a full fledged OS but lightweight enough to perfrom well on mobile procs. It has all the versatility of what most of us WInMo users have grown accustomed to but doesn’t run like a pig!
iPhone doesn’t really run much more than flash apps which is why they perform the way they do. Android can do that but also do some computing as well! The ability to run programs means you can make a desktop tile system if you wanted and get the best of both worlds.
I think MS sealed their mobile fate with WIn7.