>>>Android is a cheap plastic imitation of the iphone. They're going down the same fragmented road as MS did in the early 2000's.... It won't be a dominant platrorm much longer..
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>>I don't think so. Care to define verifiable conditions, a time frame, perhaps odds and a wager ?
>>Nothing big, nothing silly as wearing T-shirts - a couple of bottles of the drink the wiiner prefers ?
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>>curious
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>>thomas
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>just found this this morning...
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>http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20061820-75.html

just found this morning:

http://www.chip.de/news/Preissturz-10-Handys-jetzt-50-Prozent-guenstiger_49015975.html

a listing of the phones with the highest price reduction in the last 6 month in germany.

The phone dropping the highest% is an older Samsung (neither android/WP7/Bada)
next you see 3 WP7 phones, all of them main stream from HTC an LG, having generally good test results
(as they are mostly the same HW-platform as already selling android/bada phones)
dropping all more than 55%. Only one android phone in the list, the flipout, and this one
IMHO is/was just a dumb thing to try:2.8' screen in a smartphone...

Android phones older than the 3 WP7 phones with similar form factor and HW qualities sell at a higher price point.
That is a reaction to market acceptance speaking quite clearly IMHO and as money in terms of asking price is involved,
a better measure than statements about shipments/activations as well as opinion of a MVP,
which could be influenced by hopes for development of a market for the applications currently being developed inhouse.

regards

thomas