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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (31313)	9/12/2012 5:27:30 PM
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iPhone 5 vs Nokia Lumia 920–specs \| _________________________^^^^^^^ Its not really about the specs , its much more about what its like to use, eg the OS experience (and familiarity), and in any case you are comparing vapour with reality, especially since the first cut of WP8 will inevitably be late and buggy, gettinga lot of them out for Christmas will be a real stretch. It will in any case be a very hard job to persuade many IOS users to move for three reasons, so that mostly leaves disaffected Android users and people leaving the plummeting ship that is BlackBerry. Reasons 1 .very high degree of user satisfaction. 2. high degree of stickiness due to the many apps users would have to (1) find and (2) purchase over again, plus in many cases the impossibility of moving data - anything that stores data - things like notes, reminders, recipes, car, personal info like health and diet and exercise progress, numerous examples. Indeed in the 5 launch I think they said the average user has 100+ apps (i think bought but not sure). 3 Lock in to the ecosystem, between Mac and iPad and iPhone thats a lot of synced up data and apps and ease of xfer between them all. Sticking a WP8 device in the middle of that would be very ugly. All thats quite a healthy lockin, hence my thought that few (relatively) iPhone users will move to WP8, (anyway if you are already disaffected you probably moved to Android already.) The 920 also looks (and seems) to be just too huge to me, but there seems to be no end of people who are happy to stuff such huge phones in their pockets. Perhaps those folks will buy an iPad mini and make skype calls on wifi :-)