Given Microsoft’s fairly poor track record in the smartphone arena many tech experts and bloggers think the new Windows 7 phone has a fairly good chance of failing. Just too much quality cutting edge competition with the likes of iPhone, Android and Blackberry.
But a recent poll at Mashable.com suggests not everyone agrees. In fact of more than 7700 votes, more than 37% say Windows Phone 7 will succeed because it “is a really great product.” Another 1230 voters (16%) say it is “too soon to tell”, and 300 (4%) say the marketing campaign will “convince consumers this time around.”
Only about 37% say it will fail either because there is too much competition or the market “has moved on”.
This is somewhat surprising considering that Mashable’s readership is undoubtedly more tech-savvy than the market as a whole. After all, Microsoft appears to be targeting people who do not currently use smartphones.
These are people who are less tech-oriented, and do not have the same bias towards Apple and Google that many in the tech community have. That should mean that the perception of Windows Phone 7 will be even more favorable in the general marketplace than this poll suggests.
