Nick Wingfield, in this piece for the New York Times regarding Samsung’s loss as a potential negative impact of innovation.
Reviewers have praised Windows Phone for its fresh, distinctive design, with bold typography and a tile system for using phone functions. But the phones, including the Lumia 900 from Nokia, have not sold well.
A platform without competitive features or 3rd party app support released 3 years after the iPhone is not struggling because of “distinctive design.”