>Yep, I remember. Ironically, the biggest alternative to Android- bigger than iOS- is brewing in China.
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>Here's an alternate reality future for you:
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>1) By 2017, Europeans and then members of other liberal democracies are rebelling against repeated privacy breaches involving device managers.
>2) Chinese clone phones burst onto the scene offering OK hardware and avowedly secure COS for less than $100. Consumers punish dominant brands by selecting the Chinese devices.
>3) Somebody won't be able to resist building a backdoor or other security breach into COS or the devices supplied to the West. Consumers react punitively and xenophobically.
>4) MS offers WP11 phones at reasonable price and issues a $10M challenge to find a backdoor or privacy breach opportunity in what they offer. Suddenly WP is relevant again.
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>Feasible? Definitely- the pattern of disastrously poor behavior by incumbents who should be immovable and "right place, right time" opportunism by newcomers is the story of corporate involvement in devices so far.

I'm speechless. Literally. I have no idea how to reply. :)