Previous discussion on windows phone's death - "Who Killed Windows Phone?" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

Previous discussion on windows phone's death - "Who Killed Windows Phone?" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835372 Notably @saurik's comment on google's relationship on windows phone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835776 It's interesting considering the competing platform influence as today we're seeing headlines of the amazon echo show getting discounted after the youtube support got pulled: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/9/16448280/amazon-echo-show-price-cut-discount-deal-30-youtube-removal https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/9/16448280/a... My first memory of windows phone was running wp7 on an htc hd2. At the time it was curiously interesting since I was writing code with WPF. In the beginning were definately some interesting aspects on paper - the legitimized 'jailbreak' mode, decent multi-tasking for it's time, writing apps with visual studio/c# (which felt much better than xcode at the time, and had a community defining many of the initial reactive/mvvm work used in many places today). But watching friends purchase Lumias that didn't get updates for wp8 months later showed just how much has to be done on a support front, especially for a new platform.