>Great articles.
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>>>Very quietly, and without many of us even realizing it, open-source Android and Apple iOS have become the world's top personal operating system leaving Windows in the dust of computing history. Short of a smartphones and tablet Microsoft miracle, Windows' day of the dominant end-user operating system is almost over.
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>When Windows began to eat Apple's lunch, Apple relied on great design and better OS to reassure its customers. It still almost lost the battle and only made a come-back in PC when other Apple devices made the brand seriously cool and Apple fans looked at Mac and realized how nice it really is. But even Apple PC shipments are dropping now. MS's attempts to create cool devices generally have tanked and it can't offer better hardware or OS features- recent Windows releases have none of the excitement Windows once generated, WP is a tank and Windows 8 has had a ho-hum reception- so it's down to lock-in to a once dominant OS. That won't be enough for long.

WP is not elegant, but effective. But they are NOT building devices showing the strength of their achievements. Nokia's x20 line is just trying to hit the typical price points. They should build an entry WP8 phone with minimum supported pixels, workable smaller screen AND a hefty battery - as under WP8 even weak CPU is workable, having a device running for 2 days or 2-3 times as long as current top-of-line powerhouses would give them an edge. Or going after the form factors others leave behind: the xPeria Ray was nice - lower spec might fit into that form factor to allow for something resembling former small cell phones. There once was even a niche for less than credit card sized dumb phones ;-) To be honest, if an old bar phone like the E51 offered WLAN tethering, that would stay my main phone for years to come with sometimes accompanying 7' pads. I will try a normal 4.3' smartphone now, but the other option will be something like the padphone with headset as standard and a just a bar phone if I anticipate nothing but phoning desires...

The Nokia devices are nicely build (not everything lost up there...) but they do NOT try at the moment to be something different.
Just me too is not enough at this point in time.

regards

thomas