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Their was a big contest to write alternative applications to existing android and ios ones, also they paid a lot of the big developers to write applications for their platform, Microsoft is currently rumoured to be looking into building a wrapper application thay will allow microsoft phones to run android applications – if this does happen it wont likely be out till aorund windows phone 9 or 10 based on their current speed of development.

I understand the want to give them credit for giving it a go but …blackberry already can run most android apps, not flawless but for around 1-2 years now the blackberry wrapper has been out and it’s not really kicked them to the next level – why would it work for microsoft is what I would be asking. The new CEO over at microsoft is very much a cloud guy so Windows phone users are liable to see a world of cloud options put before them.. expect skydrive to become a bigger part of the phone than it ever was.

Microsofts biggest issue at the moment is timescale, at the time they start the ideas they have are without a doubt fantastic but by they time they get from the drawing board to the consumer its tired and old. Metro is always going to draw mixed reactions from people more so on the desktops but on mobile devices it should have been out their already perhaps before windows went and adopted it but the design when windows 8 laucnhed was clearly mobile inspired but now even on phones it’s looking tired.

Android, iOS, BBOS have all taken the ‘looking tired’ concept to heart and have recently all pushed out new major released to make things fresh again for the users – not all go down very well but for the most part they get people talking about it and thats the best marketing you can get.

You also have to consider the devices Nokia are putting out .. 720p.. nice, but old, snapdragon 400 processors which is low end in the android world, 1gb of ram.. kinda lame.. but the point im getting at is thats a good thing, Windows Phone runs VERY well on Nokia phones, you rarely see lag, the operating system is clearly highly optimized and well written to the point low end device tech can run it just fine.. but running it great on low end tech and running it amazing on high end tech are two diff things.

Also the camera, whats with the that – Windows Phones (from nokia that is) have very very good cameras – my thinking is that Microsoft needs to either 1, keep paying billions to app developers to gather interest or 2, just open up the SDKs and APIs and put the distro out their, open source segments of it as it’s not a bad OS just not a great one.

keep your eye on MWC event this weekend, Nokia owned by Microsoft will be releasing the Nokia X an android phone. Microsoft may use their brains and put more focus into attaining the users on their hardware then locking them down into the platform.

Windows Phone still needs time to mature and getting hardware following is the first step to that.