After a weekend of skiing and having fun, I have thought more about the elephant on my mind and decided that while I do not like Windows Phone 7 personally (because the operating system is not flexible and the homescreen is ugly) I DO understand why it was done, and I think it was a genius next step. While I do not for a second believe that Window Phone 7 can beat Android (and MeeGo I firmly believe CAN) this move will give Nokia time.
Elop's mistake(if any) at this point was the way that the news was announced. A gradual trickle approach would have primed the current Nokia consumer to be okay with the idea and would have cost Nokia less market share. For example if they would have said, "We are going to release phones on the WP7 OS and if it goes well, we will begin shifting resources towards WP7." This would have "splashed" alot less, but IF you believe all news is good news in terms of marketing, then I suppose that this makes sense because all engadget and slashgear can talk about is Nokia now. Nokia is now the dramatic teenage girl throwing a fit and wrapping boys around her finger. Which could be a good place to be. For now though, my next phone will be either MeeGo or webOS and I am not buying back my stock until the dust settles.
On a side note, I think sometime this week I am going to integrate this page with a google blogger page. I will be missing out on search indexing because I add it to this website as an iframe, but it will definately make this page easier to read.
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