Charlie Kindel On Why Windows Phone Still Hasn't Taken Off

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's weak share in the mobile phone market can be attributed to its mishandling of industry politics, not inferior technology or features, according to ex-Windows Phone evangelist Charlie Kindel. Microsoft's traditional strategy of going over the heads of hardware vendors to meet the needs of consumers and application developers does not work in the phone market, says Kindel, where the handset makers and carriers have the biggest say in determining the winners (Apple is an exception). Not everybody agrees with Kindel's analysis. Old-timers may remember Kindel, who recently resigned from Microsoft, from his days as developer relations guru for COM/OLE/Active-X."

Re:I just dont care about Face Book.

[Anonymous Coward]

Do what I do. It's a fairly complicated process, but the results are well worth it.

1) Don't open the Facebook application.

This is all from memory, so hopefully I didn't skip anything!

Re:Well..

[nwf]

For instance, the latest sends the subtle message that only whipped boyfriends willing to wear yoga tights will use a Windows Phone.

In all fairness, if they could garner half of those, they'd double their market share.

Re:And the other reason is...

[msauve]

They're working on the hardware which would allow the phone to know where you're going, and cache the maps ahead of time. Unfortunately, they require a bottle of Higgs bosuns before they can actually implement the mind-reading/future prediction feature, and the LHC hasn't delivered them yet.