This is all such an interesting thread and one paticuraly interesting to me as I am looking to upgrade my Blackberry. I had thought a new iPhone would be my choice, but now with Windows Phone 7 and possibly Android. So much to consider and no idea as of yet what makes sense to me. Since I am a Verizon customer and don't have plans to change, I guess I have a little time to decide. Only Android is an option if it were today. Being a developer I would think Windows Phone 7 would make me feel like I had something I could actually write software for if I desired.

Personally I could care less about the market place numbers or how many thousands of apps are in the store since I only need a single phone and maybe a couple of apps. But I have been bit before when buying into a technology nobody later supported. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out but by the time the next new thing comes out none of this will matter anymore. sigh;
Tim


>I think this is confusion between "shipping" and "sold." The former are reflected in sales figures 3 months hence, the latter on the past. Comparing those can be deceiving. That said, if Win7 is going to be more than a #3 or #4 also-ran, it will have to offer something that the others don't. So far that hasn't happened. The best thing they could do IMHO is get IronPython to run natively on Win7: that would almost immediately open up the platform to the Python programmers of the world: Python is #5 on Tiobe, by a few hundreths of a percent behind #6, C#. And in the past year Python has actually gained ground on C#: at last year's rate, Python will be #5 in a few months to C#'s #6, if that long. Making life easy for developers is the best way to get more apps, faster, on the platform.
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