Article: Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold
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Originally Posted by
megabyteme
This is not enticing me to give any kind of care about M$. Honestly, I kinda hate those kiosk people, anyway...
I too hate them, and prefer to make my decision online before even approaching a retail shop, much to the disgust of most sales people. BUT you seem to be missing the point in the article that it is not only Microsoft involved in these "dodgy" acts. I am reluctant to call it dodgy, in fact, as it seems to have become the modern way with big business...
Re: Article: Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold
The only way they can convince me to use those phones is if they give me one for free.
Re: Article: Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold
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Originally Posted by
Jiminamsterdam
O Please ! Microsoft is no different than any other company, "it's a business" and businesses are in the business of making money "profit" I'm soooo bored hearing all these sicophantic (arse kissing) statements about MS or Apple, but "they allways come late to the party" what a lot of nonsence ! MS where selling data phones long before Mr Jobs improved on the idea and made them poplular, (iphone) certainly I will agree that their effort before W/phone/7 was truly dreadful and their market share reflected this. However why anyone would call W/phone/7 a third rate product is beyond me when it clearly works every bit as well as iphone or Android devices, I own an Android phone at the moment I have owned an iphone too and when I choose my next phone it wont be based on kissing any CEO's arse, but on the merits of the device whoever happens to make it !
You're jumping to conclusions. By refusing the product, I do not "kiss any CEO's arse", I'm merely happy with the product I currently own and as such feel no temptation to switch to the Microsoft product which apparently struggles to attract customers anyway.
Re: Article: Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold
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Originally Posted by
Jiminamsterdam
O Please ! Microsoft is no different than any other company, "it's a business" and businesses are in the business of making money "profit" I'm soooo bored hearing all these sicophantic (arse kissing) statements about MS or Apple, but "they allways come late to the party" what a lot of nonsence ! MS where selling data phones long before Mr Jobs improved on the idea and made them poplular, (iphone) certainly I will agree that their effort before W/phone/7 was truly dreadful and their market share reflected this. However why anyone would call W/phone/7 a third rate product is beyond me when it clearly works every bit as well as iphone or Android devices, I own an Android phone at the moment I have owned an iphone too and when I choose my next phone it wont be based on kissing any CEO's arse, but on the merits of the device whoever happens to make it !
first off, i meant "they always come late to the party" as a generalization on a number of their business practices. there have been numerous occasions where microsoft half-assedly (its a word) enters a market well after there are already well established players, even to the point where they are synonymous to a certain company, for example, skydrive. or they will just revamp or remarket an older product without really improving it much. no shit they are just any other company. my point is they are still trying to compete with 1995. they are, at many times, seemingly oblivious to the fact that they are not the company they used to be.
secondly, i called windows phone 7 a "third rate product" because THEY ARE LITERALLY RATED THIRD! that, and you clearly havent tried to use one. i dont know how that is beyond you, but i guess if you havent been paying attention to the smartphone market for the last year, which apparently you havent, maybe it is understandable after all.
Re: Article: Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold
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Originally Posted by
LancelotSA
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Originally Posted by
megabyteme
This is not enticing me to give any kind of care about M$. Honestly, I kinda hate those kiosk people, anyway...
I too hate them, and prefer to make my decision online before even approaching a retail shop, much to the disgust of most sales people. BUT you seem to be missing the point in the article that it is not only Microsoft involved in these "dodgy" acts. I am reluctant to call it dodgy, in fact, as it seems to have become the modern way with big business...
Actually, I was referring to the fact that if M$ wants to entice customers (and that is really what they need to do), they need to build better, more desirable products. Paying some min-wage, pimply kid an extra fiver to sucker an occasional, unsavy customer is NOT the way to build market share. They are doing the same thing with their "Bing-le Berry" search service. They've lost BILLIONS trying to force crappy products/services on the public. It don't work. Not anymore, anyway.
