MS could (key word) be selling WP7 phones AND tablets, and in doing so, competing with Android and iOS.

Instead, they chose to put out a half-baked WP7 (is it compatible with dual-core hardware YET? In other news, the first quad-core Android phones have entered manufacturing… At least they added copy/paste, right?).  Instead, they decided to ignore 10+ years of “Windows-on-a-tablet” failures, and announce their tablet strategy would be (drum roll…) exclusively “Windows-on-a-tablet”. At least when Windows 8 is launched, which isn’t today. And in fact, following MS tradition (so deeply established, most corporate upgrade policies reflect it), Windows 8 itself will be half-baked, whenever Windows 9 is released they may have an OS that resolves at least most of the 1st-gen public concerns.  Which will not occur until at least 2014… by then, not only will Android and iOS have advanced, pushing the currently accepted paradigm (that of the publicly-understood concept of a mobile-OS on mobile devices – phone AND tablet), but Windows 8 will have negative press that doesn’t lead to either “Windows-on-a-tablet” or Windows 9 acceptance.

I think Nokia is sending a message here:
“Microsoft, what are you doing?  We didn’t know you were going to release WP7 and then abandon ship!  We saw hope in WP7 – don’t steal it’s UI and stretch it like a Halloween costume over Windows! Get behind WP7 – like WE did!  We want to use it to sell phones, and tablets… today!  We don’t want you confusing the public, creating the impression that it’s a dead-end! We want to help you grow it, to compete with Android and iOS! We thought we were a player in this game! We made a decision, and put our company on the line – why are you throwing the baby out with the bathwater?”

Nokia has a right to be resentful.  At least it shows they are smart.

I hope they DO launch a WP7 tablet – and teach MS how ludicrous their “We don’t care about selling things until 2014, and we don’t care how we drag our image through the mud in the meantime – we’ll supplant that with hype until then!”  Disgusting.

Come on Nokia, twist their arm…
Make me excited about WP7 again, rather than disappointed as I’ve grown.