>start doing thing
>sell it as the hottest newcomer
>stop giving a fuck when it has some issues that need to be adressed
>kind of adress them, drop the whole platform when it's finally close to maturing
>yeah we did our best guys well time to move on
Why does microsoft do shit like this
Start doing thing
Christopher Diaz
Luis Hernandez
because they saw Windows phone and it's OS as a lost cause vs iOS and Android. I owned a 5.0" BLU Windows HD phone that was amazing for its' price. Cost me $130 and it had stupid battery life. It doesn't help that Microsoft thought they could get away with stealing the official Youtube app, changing the appearance a bit, and use it without paying royalties to Google. The "official" Microsoft store Youtube app was literally a link shortcut that opened Internet Explorer and went to Youtube.com
Christian Rogers
They tried and made some fine handsets while doing it
Jeremiah Nelson
>continue pumping money into something that was DOA
but why
Carter Long
everybody gave up amazon/ubuntu/blackberry there were a million of them
Daniel Moore
Microsoft has this internal policy that a new thing is always worth more brownie points than refining an existing thing. It's a shame because Windows Phone was the best phone OS on the market.
Isaac Evans
too much money
they can do whatever they want without repercussion
Nicholas Robinson
They are planning to make one OS, fit for both pc's, laptops, tablets and smartphones. The windowsphone lacked the fundamentals to allow this. Now they will make a new entry.
aka, microsoft lacks vision.
Jeremiah Nguyen
No apps.
My Nokia 530 was one of the best phones I ever owned.
The camera was great and the battery life amazing.
I had to get rid of it because it didn't have the apps I needed for work.
Leo Long
apps?
you mean programs?
Christopher Baker
Apps as in applications.
Stop being a nufag trying to make programs (bastardized from proclamation) happen.
Noah Clark
There are actually more Windows Phone apps now than before thanks to UWP
Wyatt Nelson
On a mobile device “apps” is perfectly acceptable.
Brody Powell
I rocked an 830 for 3 years and really the only thing I lost was the ability to play movies I bought in the store on my phone. Oh well.
What was worse though was losing groove support in Horizon 3, that was a neat feature.
Switching to android wasn't too bad, ms has pretty good software support for android at this point
Brayden Diaz
Hurp
Isaac Anderson
Wasn't that mostly Nokia?
Oliver Young
The OS was good too, it just had a chronic app store problem. Still better than stock android at least
Isaiah Gonzalez
Being better than stock Android is a pretty low bar these days. The OS is fundamentally flawed in the performance department. That point was really brought home to me when I bought a Pixel and an iPhone 6S and A/B'd them. Despite being a year older the 6S destroys the mighty Pixel, imagine what it does to lesser devices. All that said, the apps for iOS were miles, lightyears, universes ahead of the pathetic dross on the Windows Phone app store. Even the same apps were of much higher quality on the Apple side. Just like with Android. Only difference is Android had some momentum. Windows Phone was DOA from the start. And the funny thing was the MS fanboys were deluded into believing they couldn't fail. I remember the slew of shilling on Engadget and The Verge back in 2011/2012. They just *knew* Android was going to go down in flames of the WinPhone ascendance. Even then I was like yeah right. Never had a chance.
Evan Ortiz
Nigga, wut
Camden Martinez
tl;dr Android lacks smoothness compared to iOS and Window Phone. Despite this, Windows Phone never had a chance due to no apps and shit apps that did exist. The legion of fanboys back in '11 and '12 wasn't enough to meme it into glory.
Elijah King
IF anyone lost its android users for not getting Nokia phones
If only
William Diaz
Or proggys as I've come to call 'em.
Dylan Bailey
$0.50 has been deposited into your iTunes account
Michael Flores
>Barbra
poo'd again
Mason Nelson
>The "official" Microsoft store Youtube app was literally a link shortcut that opened Internet Explorer and went to Youtube.com
that was after google sued them
the app at first was just like the you android version, did developed it themselves after Google refused to deliver on for the platform
google sued them, told them to remove the app and said to MSFT to make an HTML5 solution themselves but don't build an app
Kayden Rogers
but there's no hardware left
>Windows Phone never had a chance due to no apps and shit apps that did exist.
>he doesn't remember WP7