Comment by kenjackson
16 years ago
Microsoft announced, then released, spent $250M on advertising, and then killed a new phone in that time.
16 years ago
Microsoft announced, then released, spent $250M on advertising, and then killed a new phone in that time.
To be fair, Google did the same thing in the same time frame with the Nexus One, minus the ad budget.
Sometimes disrupting existing markets and paradigms takes time, patience, and several iterations.
(I'm still disappointed at how quickly they stopped the direct-sale idea with the Nexus One)
The biggest problem with selling the Nexus One direct was support. Carriers didn't want to support a phone that hadn't branded and Google couldn't accept that people don't want to ask a community message board and wait a few days for a reply when their phone doesn't work.
The community message board support model doesn't work for google. My current peeve is this god-awful bug thread for adding an additional account to an Android phone:
Microsoft made $250M profit yesterday.
While that sounds great, according to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(+microsoft+profit+)+/+... it's actually 51 million/day. So it took them a full week to make the 250 million. Or was yesterday special?
He was ironic. I am always fascinated to see people that do not understand that kind of humor.
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