Microsoft has a new Android app called Switch to Windows Phone

http://www.citeworld.com/mobile/21768/switch-to-windows-phone

by scholia • 13 years ago

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t04• 13 years ago

Now that's just pathetic. Can they not come up with anything more clever than blatant poaching of customers?

Same approach with many Bing commercials. Microsoft just hates Google for reason.

dangrossman• 13 years ago

Where are new Windows Phone users going to come from except other platforms? This app is not useful to anyone that hasn't already switched; it merely helps you set up your new phone you already bought.

scholia4• 13 years ago

Yeah, it's not like Google ever tried never tried to poach Hotmail customers with Gmail, tried to poach IE customers with Chrome, tried to poach Office customers with Google Docs, tried to poach Windows customers with Chromebooks, and so on. It's really unfair of Microsoft. It should just let Google poach all its customers.

t04• 13 years ago

Did Google ever come right out into the open and bash another company? No. There are much more subtle ways to get your point across. Targeting another brand, stealing happy users right in the middle of using their using the software, right out in the open for everyone to see? It doesn't matter who it is.

It's so aggressive it makes Microsoft look heartless and as if they're trying too hard.

Maybe the downvotes don't understand what I said or what's actually going on here.

flootch• 13 years ago

Hmm. I'm a bit surprised Microsoft hasn't created a Windows Phone launcher to go along with that.

benaiah• 13 years ago

A Metro-style launcher for Android actually sounds quite nice. The only problem is that few to no widgets actually adhere to that style, so it would look a little weird. Still, I can hope.

jack-r-abbit4• 13 years ago

I think the name is a bit misleading. It is only useful for people that have already switched and need to "port" everything over. This is not in itself going to get more people to switch. If the app installed on the Android phone just presented a side-by-side list of replacement apps, that might actually get more people to switch. Although, if MS is scared they don't have enough solid replacements, that type of app might actually scare people away more.

johnvschmitt• 13 years ago

This also points to why "apps" are a broken model.

We desperately need mobile device standards, and HTML5 is just one step on that needed path.

Could you imagine, if browser had to do this? (Say, you're on Firefox, thinking of using Chrome, & have to use a complicated feature that analyzed all of your most recently visited sites, & told you if those sites worked on Chrome, & then if not, showed you comparable sites)

jack-r-abbit4• 13 years ago

I don't really see this any more broken than trying to switch your PC from Windows to Linux. As it is right now, I've been using Windows for so long and have a decent list of apps I use everyday... I don't really have the time/energy to start all over in a new OS and try to find the replacement apps. But if I had an app that would analyze the currently installed apps on my Windows machine and then gave me a super easy way to install all those same (or replacement) apps on a Linux machine, I might be less hesitant to make that switch.

dromidas• 13 years ago

Now if they only had an app that said "Fix Windows Phone Bluetooth so your apps can work with your car #firstworldproblems".

Microsoft has a new Android app called Switch to Windows Phone

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