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Posted by: FatM
I'm sorry, but Windows Phone is a joke.
It only stands as a failed attempt from Microsoft to compete in the smartphone market.
If Bungie wants to waste their time creating a Bungie application that is compatible with Windows Phone, they can by all means. However, if they decide not to, they would only hurt a very small minority of smartphone users.
That's how I look at it. Sorry if I offended anyone who owns a Windows Phone.
You fail to understand Microsoft.
Windows Phone will succeed, just like Internet Explorer took out Netscape (ironically, AOL owned Netscape and used IE as it's web browser in the AOL software), Office took out WordPerfect and LotusNotes, and XBOX knocked Sega out of consoles and put Sony at #2 in consoles after 360 was released.
Why?
Microsoft's Mantra: We don't innovate anymore. We take what others did, slap a Windows logo on it and profit.
So with WP8 being made to work with Win8 and XBOX 360, it will succeed, eventually overtaking Droid while emulating Apple's overzealous simplicity in interface and protected networking for apps, data and whatever else Steve Jobs made them do with iPhone. (Known as an ecosystem. Google may make an OS, but normal people won't download it since they already have Win or iOS. Example: look at Linux/Unix.)
Aside from Zune (which failed because MS didn't create a content source like Apple did for the iPod with iTunes, and is only doing better because of the 360), this is how Microsoft does things. Their venture with Nokia now makes it more likely to take market share from Google in the Smartphone wars simply because they now have a platform to undercut on price.
Learn your history bro. I grew up watching MS do this, and they'll do it again and again.
OT: yes, Bungie should make a WP7 and WP8 app, and Bungie should include a mobile-version of the forums in a future version of the Droid, WP and iPhone apps.
[Edited on 04.13.2012 11:39 PM PDT]