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Originally Posted by RogueSpear
These days I'm not an anti-Microsoft person who's life mission is to take down the man, but rather I just don't really care. When I do care it's when they get in my way. That right there is the "mindshare" that I've been seeing in all corners.
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Erm...are you sure about that?
You micro-quoted my post to death, seemingly missing the entire point: I was talking about mindshare, not the technical aspects of the OS or anything else. The point was that in talking about various smartphones on the market today, Google with their couple of phones models running the OS and couple of million handsets sold world-wide (if that?) was mentioned, while Microsoft with, what, 17 million licenses sold last year and easily 20+ models on the market didn't even get mentioned. That's a mindshare problem - Windows Mobile outsells Andriod phones by a huge margin, yet Android gets mentioned. Android, and Google, have big mindshare.
You'll notice that in every article about MP3 players, the iPod gets mentioned - and typically so does that Zune. That's mindshare. Mindshare and marketshare are vastly different, but you need both to be successful. When the media starts writing your product/platform off as being non-relavent to the discussion, that's a very bad place to be, because sooner or later that lack of mindshare will start to hurt your marketshare.