Microsoft Should Dump Middlemen, Build Own Phones 262
suraj.sun writes "Microsoft has a long and illustrious history of operating system sales. The model has served the company well on the PC, but if it wants to make money in the phone market, it needs to start thinking like a consumer electronics company and start making its own phones."
In other news (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft's search for a viable business model continues.
Great... (Score:1, Funny)
Fatal exception error! (Score:2, Funny)
Your call cannot be completed. The number you have dialed is not on a Microsoft-supported phone! Press 1 to report the issue to Microsoft. Press 2 for technical information about this error. Press 3 to hear these options again. Or press 0 now to speak to a Microsoft technical support representative!
Re:That could work like the xbox (Score:5, Funny)
RROD on the back and BSOD on the front.
Very stylish!
Re:That could work like the xbox (Score:5, Funny)
So they'll sink $4-5 billion building hardware, software, branding, and (presumably) a market/network? Yeah, maybe.
Or it could be a Zune phone, replete of velvety brownness and the ability squirt.
Actually, it would be fun to see them flop about in a costly and humiliating manner. Sure the Xbox has turned a profit for some select quarters but I reckon they're still down a few billion overall. Does anyone know how the Zune is fairing?
I, for one, welcome Windows Live 7 Professional Phone Xtreme Crispy Chunky Ranch-Bacon. If it worked for Vista [penny-arcade.com] and Hotmail [msdn.com], well, they could work similar magic with a homegrown phone.
(We can still make fun of Vista and Hotmail, right? And what the fuck is with those Hotmail ads? They make less sense than the Seinfeld ones.)
They did (Score:1, Funny)
It was called the "Kin". It sold for what, 3 weeks?
We'll call it.... (Score:3, Funny)
the Zune-phone!!
Re:Great... (Score:3, Funny)
Why not "Windows7 Phone", or "Mobile7" or something? "Windows Phone 7" just seems like a tonguetwister, or a haiku at best:
Windows Phone 7
Why do I even bother?
I am not impressed.
Re:"Microsoft should..." (Score:5, Funny)
Clippy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hasn't Microsoft just done this with the Kin... (Score:5, Funny)
I might not be a multi-billionaire.
But I also didn't buy Danger for $500M, run it into the ground, and then post a $240M write-off last quarter for KIN.
So I must be doing something right, I guess.
Microsoft may be successful. Microsoft's phone efforts are not.
Re:That could work like the xbox (Score:1, Funny)
RROD on the back and BSOD on the front.
WTF is that, a mullet for electronics?