blackweaver:
One other thing, the notion that the existence of Bluetooth, and those other connectivity features and even the presence of a memory card is an advantage is relative - especially in the main markets targeted by google and apple. Nowadays a lot of people rarely use Bluetooth for file transfer, it's so slow anyway.

bluetooth is not just for file transfer. It's used in playing multiplayer games, its used to pair external devices like mouse and keyboard, its used to pair music speakers and earphones, its used to pair smart watches... Etc. So to some of us its quite a big deal.

Norman4real:
bluetooth is not just for file transfer. It's used in playing multiplayer games, its used to pair external devices like mouse and keyboard, its used to pair music speakers and earphones, its used to pair smart watches... Etc. So to some of us its quite a big deal.

I'm pretty sure iphones have Bluetooth, at least I believe that the point of not having a headset jack on the new iPhone is that you can use a Bluetooth headset, also I should think you can pair your iOS smartwatch with your iPhone phone, whether with Bluetooth or some other wireless technology. As for using mice and keyboards, I don't know but I'm curious, why would you need to use those on a phone?
I'm guessing you're a gamer and probably customize your phone a lot. To you, Bluetooth is very important. But my argument isn't about people as savvy as you. For every one of you that likes to do gymnastics with his phone, there are probably 10 or more people who don't really care much

PhonePlanet:


listen to me. in the area of windows, windows and mac came out before linux. windows was distrubuted to 3rd party OEMs that is why Windows became popular, along side apple mac os. linux came out much later. like sailfish or tizen os now than android and ios is already popular.

so forget pc

but how Andriod became popular than IOS? when apple released the iPhone in 2007 and latter called the OS IOS, every phone maker was looking for an OS to put in there phone to put up against the iPhone. then google annonced android os in 2008. normally each company would had continue to build its own OS from scratch would will take much longet than even 2009/2010. or since Android was free and "open source" and was built to some extent. these OEM can get android free! and edit it (open source) to use on thier own phones.

THIS IS HOW ANDROID BECAME POPULAR!

android did not become popular yesterday.

how ever some companies like nokia did not buy the idea. the went ahead to build thier own OS - meego which was debut on the nokia N9 in 2011. but meego was discontinued.

and symbian was not a top class mobile OS. like android and IOS. it was only made to look more modern like these OS's with symbian belle.

same for blackberry with blackberry 7.0 OS. until blackberry completed thier OS Blackberry 10 in 2012/2013. which was also discontinued last year 2015.

the story is toooo much to type. so i expect you to try and understand with my few words. but if you dont. you can go online and read about all the mobile os and every related article you can find. or drop you whats app number so i can send you a VN.

You make very intelligent points and I can respect that. However there is one point you're not factoring :
When windows phone first came out, a number of the major phone vendors jumped on, nobody wanted an Android only monopoly or an Android / iOS duopoly. However, because of poor sales they started dropping winphone. And that was because most people didn't want widows phones. Only Nokia had some measure of success. If people had been able to customize certain things like the default ui, keyboard, browser etc, I'm pretty sure windows phone would have done better

blackweaver:



You make very intelligent points and I can respect that. However there is one point you're not factoring :
When windows phone first came out, a number of the major phone vendors jumped on, nobody wanted an Android only monopoly or an Android / iOS duopoly. However, because of poor sales they started dropping winphone. And that was because most people didn't want widows phones. Only Nokia had some measure of success. If people had been able to customize certain things like the default ui, keyboard, browser etc, I'm pretty sure windows phone would have done better

i agree that people did not likr windows, but customization is not the issue. features is! and microsoft was and is still developing the os at a very slow rate.