Nurhisham Hussein
04-13-2011, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.fool.com/investing/fiercemarkets/2011/04/12/windows-phone-launch-was-a-dud-in-the-us-is-nokia-.aspx' target='_blank'>http://www.fool.com/investing/fierc...-is-nokia-.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"The latest numbers from research firm comScore show that Microsoft's [...] Windows Phone launch late last year in the U.S. market was largely a non-event. This raises the obvious question: Does Nokia [...] know about this? And is the company concerned?"</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/wpt/auto/1302712532.usr14226.jpg" /></p><p>I don't think there's any question that doubts over the long term success of Windows Phone 7 are building. Even with Nokia on board, Microsoft has made its share of missteps over WP7 and there's a risk they'll lose so much momentum that it will be impossible to raise the platform's profile no matter how much money they throw at it. For the record, I like WP7 - but the glacial pace of updates and the non-existent roll-out of Marketplace beyond the initial launch countries is getting me down. Will the global reach of Nokia help? Maybe if they move fast enough, but that's a big maybe. This is too much like a marriage of desperation between the two, and both risk slipping into irrelevancy in the smartphone space.</p>