While the phone may have to compete with the iphone, it is still very important and exciting to me. I feel as though this is another big step to having an even smarter smart phone. Iphones and droids have so much ability and potential to be a stand-alone device rather than a supplementary device.
Iphones still do not use flash or other software programs that are not installed on the phone itself. Having a windows 7 phone may encourage the iphone to create more of a computer operating software on it so they can access all of the computer programs that a regular computer can. If phones add another device like this and can have a system that is the same as the computers people use, this would be a huge step in making work easier and the transfer of data from one place to another more seamless.
I can't wait to see what impact this has on Iphone and other smart phone sales, but also what it does to the next generation of Iphones.
I think a major factor that will determine whether the Windows 7 Phone is a success or failure is the number of developers it can gather. Right now, the markets of applications are dominated by the iPhone and Android so if Microsoft cannot gather much support from them, they will have trouble gaining sales and eventually fail.
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