{"id":746792,"date":"2013-04-16T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=443452"},"modified":"2013-04-16T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:55:55","slug":"windows-phone-boss-calls-android-kind-of-a-mess-despite-being-worlds-biggest-mobile-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/746792","title":{"rendered":"Windows Phone boss calls Android \u2018kind of a mess\u2019 despite being world\u2019s biggest mobile OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/16\/microsoft-executive-android-criticism-443452\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/htc-windows-phone-8x-13.jpg?w=650&#038;h=533&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C533\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows Phone chief calls Android &#039;kind of a mess&#039; despite being world&#039;s most popular mobile OS\" title=\"HTC Windows Phone 8X\" \/><\/a><\/center>Everything we've seen so far indicates that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/07\/windows-phone-market-share-321369\/\">Windows Phone 8 is barely making a dent in the consumer market<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/28\/ios-android-windows-phone-enterprise-market-399986\/\">the enterprise market<\/a> while <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/android\">Android<\/a> and iOS remain the world's two most popular mobile operating systems. Regardless, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft's<\/a> Windows Phone division chief\u00a0Terry Myerson described Android as \"kind of a mess\" <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130416\/windows-phone-head-myerson-android-still-kind-of-a-mess\/\">during <em>AllThingsD's<\/em> D: Dive Into Mobile conference<\/a> this week because <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/14\/apple-samsung-htc-only-profitable-smartphone-companies\/\">Samsung has been the only vendor to consistently turn a profit<\/a>\u00a0from selling Android smartphones. Myerson said that because of this, there is \"clearly mutiny in the Starship Android\" and implied that more vendors would start looking away from Android and toward other operating systems, presumably including Windows Phone.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/j55fjb08PQ8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything we&#8217;ve seen so far indicates that Windows Phone 8 is barely making a dent in the consumer market or\u00a0the enterprise market while Android and iOS remain the world&#8217;s two most popular mobile operating systems. Regardless, Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Phone division chief\u00a0Terry Myerson described Android as &#8220;kind of a mess&#8221; during AllThingsD&#8217;s D: Dive Into Mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38h2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}