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> This might be a huge opportunity for Microsoft and WP On the contrary, they've been trying to penetrate the developing market for some time. In fact, the low
by joshuapants 11y ago
> This might be a huge opportunity for Microsoft and WP
On the contrary, they've been trying to penetrate the developing market for some time. In fact, the low-end Lumias are almost uniformly better than Android devices in the same price range.
Apps are an issue, but that brings us to the chicken-egg problem of customers and apps.
- venomsnake 11y ago> Apps are an issue, but that brings us to the chicken-egg problem of customers and apps. Apps are not a issue. There are under 1000 must have apps. Pay each company $1M to port it and support it on the platform and you have competitive ecosystem for less than the rounding error of MS revenue.
- joshuapants 11y agoThey did that. And then those companies never updated the apps.