One of the most annoying headlines last week was that of Microsoft’s decision to start paying a commission to salesdrones at wireless telco retail stores when they actually sell a Windows Phone 7 device.

My first thought was are you fucking freakin’ kiddin’ me?

13 or so months after the release?

It just dawned that the drones who do the actual selling may need to be incentivized to, you know, SELL THE FREAKING PHONES???

Amazing!

For the past year, several good people – myself included :-) – had constantly complained that visits to telco retail stores showed that the salesdroids were definitely steering buyers away from Windows Phones to Android devices, all of which are lesser in every aspect than Windows Phones.

Now we know why.

Basically, the good work of the Windows Phone 7 development and marketing teams were being stifled by a totally misplaced belief in trickle-down sales incentivizing: that the foot soldiers would do what they are told by the overseers and just sell Windows Phones. Despite the fact that all the Android phone pushers were incenting them to sell their rubbish!

Yeah. As if!

While kinda late to the game, I hope this sanity recovery isn’t too late, for it would really hurt to see such a fine product relegated to the trash heap of technology.

Zune, anyone?

*Windows Phone 7, as used here denotes all Windows Phone 7 and above devices.

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