Has Microsoft considered handing Lumia 950 + Band 2 bundles out to members of the HN community to convert them over to Microsoft land from Android or iOS?
Seriously, we're the most vocal people in the tech community you know. Consider it.
Seriously, we're the most vocal people in the tech community you know. Consider it.
On a side note, despite being a loyal windows phone user for years, I might jump ship this time. Microsoft seems to be turning itself into a service oriented company. They treat their own mobile market as third. Wait for years for a quality phone to be release, and when it does it is exclusive to some carrier (950 and att). All of their apps now first come exclusive to iOS and Android and much later to Windows phone (new Office, Skype etc). Everything that made Windows Phone cool (Cortana, Offline Here maps, Offline Mix Radio etc) is now cross platform. Good for consumers in general but then it also cannibalized the reason to be with Windows Phone.
Also, Cortana is kind of shit on Android right now. It's not ready to replace Google Now yet.
Or at least this is not how you buy it.
Send me a 950 + Band 2, I will make it my primary phone and gadget, I will use the almighty shit out of it and publicly post about it frequently, the good and maybe a tiny bit of the bad if it's a true game stopper and needs to be fixed to further Windows Mobile adoption.
You buy loyalty by telling someone like me "We think our new phone is better than your Nexus 5 (which is considered the best Android phone ever produced), and we will prove it by showing you how well polished Windows 10 Mobile is (compared to Android 6) and that we brought our A game to hardware production by giving you a Lumia 950. This is how much we stand behind our product and our hard work." You buy loyalty by having the balls to step up and try to adopt the vocal users.
Now, otoh, if Apple approached me with a free iPhone 6S + a basic iWatch? I'd decline their offer. They have not impressed me with their new phone, watch, or iOS revision. I see no reason to switch, and since they have not shown any reason to switch I shall show them no loyalty in return.
Microsoft, otoh, has actually impressed me with what they've done, and they may be worth showing loyalty to. I just want them to prove it.
I have nothing on the line here, I don't do product reviews for a living and if Microsoft never sends me another thing ever again because they didn't like what I had to say about their products, then they have more to lose than me (mainly because their product has flaws and they'd be essentially stating the flaws aren't worth fixing, which is 100% of the problem Apple dug itself into a hole with over the past 2 years).