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Originally Posted by jdmountford
As for the market share mind share discussions I think the major reason for the lack of Win Mo mind share is due in large part to North American cell carriers. Carriers throw their weight at exclusives like the G1, iPhone and Palm Pre.
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I can certainly attest to the (negative) influence of carriers. With Verizon pimping the Blackberry Storm in the last 6 months, almost to the exclusion of anything else, their Windows Mobile phone selection has atrophied. That, coupled with the fact that you can't even walk into a Verizon store (at least in the LA area) and look at/handle/"touch" a Touch Pro becuase it is an "Internet only sale" further exacerbates the problem.
It's an uphill climb if you have to make consumers (who want stuff NOW) wait and order something over the Internet, rather than being able to walk into a store and buy something. Knowing Verizon, of course they realize that consumers will simply buy the non-Windows Mobile device (ie. the BlackBerry Storm) they can walk out of the store with, rather than wait for something to come in the mail several days later.