What about you tell us what WP8 brings at the launch that could convince people? This is a honest question, I am wondering. I switched from Symbian to Linux to Android, so my attachment can be considered as low; so what would WP8 bring to me?
It's a phone that doesn't crash? I film girls regularly for my new business and they use their phones frequently for twitter, social networking, email, videos, pictures, etc, they live off their phones so they are good candidates to ask how usable they are. I've never seen one with a Windows phone, usually they have either Android or iOS phones and sometimes Blackberrys so I ask them what they think of them every time I film them. This is what literally comes up every time from the girls that use android phones:
1) crashes a lot
2) have to reboot it sometimes
3) email stops working sometimes
4) videos sometimes stop playing
5) camera doesn't always work
6) hate it
7) worst phone I've ever owned
....etc, etc, etc. I can't tell you how many hundreds of times I've heard those comments from these girls about their Android phones. When they see my Windows phone the Htc Titan it always gets a wtf! reaction from them and they are hugely impressed at how slick it is. Really I think the main problem is still by and large most people don't even know that Windows phones exist, in fact so far only one girl of the hundreds I've filmed had actually heard of it, the rest had no idea what it was. The Android experience from what these girls are telling me is still weak so I really don't think stealing Android customers would be that hard once word of mouth got out on Windows phones. Not everyone wants to root their phone or install other os's on it, they just want their email, twitter, camera, videos, etc to work and work all the time. These people are ripe to be stolen from Android, but the first step is they actually need to be aware that Windows phone actually exists.
