Thread: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
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2012-04-13 , 03:01
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Originally Posted by coopere View Post
Didn't believe it was true until C-Net did a little investigation of their own and discovered that at five different AT&T stores in New York, they walked in pretending to be first time buyers and all of them were introduced to the iPhone. Even when they intentionally asked for the Lumia 900, it was shrugged off, and they still were trying to be sold an iPhone. One rep even said "Windows Phone is ok, but it's no iPhone."

here's the link to the article: http://www.intomobile.com/2012/04/12...8IntoMobile%29
Does this sound familiar to anyone?

"Microsoft employees were dismayed when they anonymously visited Verizon stores and discovered that employees for the carrier were reluctant to sell the Kin, said a Microsoft executive close to the Kin project. Verizon, the only carrier behind the Kin, tended to promote phones running Google’s Android software."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/te...pagewanted=all

They don't sell WP because they cannot recommend it and quite frankly if I were an AT&T employee I would see little reason to aswell.