Michael Fisher asks an interesting question over on Pocket Now, "Is Windows Phone too late to the party?" laying out both sides of the argument. Are the entrenched positions of iOS and Android simply too well advanced for Microsoft's mobile OS to have an impact, or is everything coming to a head with Windows Phone 8?

Reading through the points, I get the feeling that Fisher's view is closer to the latter than the former:

“Sometimes success comes overnight, but more often it is the prize earned by stubborn commitment and a defiant refusal to settle for less.” In my opinion, that’s where Microsoft is right now. The start may have been slow and the road bumpy, but the company has sunk far too much money and effort into Windows Phone to watch it spiral down the drain at this point. It’s going to continue throwing money and resources at the platform, forcing it into a successful position. That shouldn’t be necessary with an OS as “beautifully different” as Windows Phone, but sometimes it takes a lot of time and hard work for something unusual to gain acceptance- no matter how beautiful it is.

You can read all of Fisher's arguments on Pocket Now, and let us know what you think in the comments.