Comments on: Microsoft + Danger = iPhone competitor

No, they haven't announced it, but yesterday's reorganization makes it pretty clear.

[johnedlt]

Can someone pls stop including nokia/ symbian in the smartphone equation. No one really uses their PIM features in the first place! No thats no true. I think i used mine...total 20 minutes in one year...

It's ok to include the bricks though (the big clamshells) and maybe the E series... to be fair.

Oh yeah...symbian who gives a s...it s...ks!

Just making you guys smile...

[BILLinBCN]

U.S. smartphone penetration is only expected to hit 10 percent this year, but growing fast. With the market split among 6 current competitors, the natural order eventually will be consolidate or condense.

But we won?t see systems leave the market for a while, for three reasons.

1. The margins for high-end phones are high, so the ability to monetize and the incentive to stay in the market are both high.
2. The market is maturing and the overall ?size of the pie? is growing, so all players will see a return on their initial investments for the next few years.
3. The innovation cycle is still in the early stages, which means that new products can be expected that will significantly alter the playing field.

I have my own predictions on which players will survive when the shakeout happens. For instance, I predict 3 will be gone by 2012, including Android. You can read at http://www.BroodingSavage.com.

[virtous]

If Microsoft is planning to get into the phone market, it better be way better than iphone or the G1. Else only employees of Microsoft will be buying it at employee price, like the Zune. I dont know why Microsoft name doesnt sound cool at all. If a high school kid has a ipod or a iphone, he/she is in the cool group but if he/she has a zune, they would fall under the geek group. Seriously, Microsoft has to reach out to the common man, and market themselves in such a way that having their products should make them cool.
Just imagine a granddad gives an ipod and a zune to his grandkids for christmas, which one would put a smile on the grandkids face? Looks like the Microsoft interview question......