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Microsoft defeated their own phone platform by not having proper developer incentives/support.
by ams6110 8y ago
Microsoft defeated their own phone platform by not having proper developer incentives/support.
- Analemma_ 8y agoGoogle's actions were still anticompetitive even if Microsoft's effort would've fallen apart on its own.
- nickik 8y agoSo if I create ShitPhoneTM you think google should be forced to develop apps for my phone? If they dod not restrict web access then what they did is perfectly fine.
- brewrwe 8y agoThey paid devs and gave them Lumia phones. I still remember writing a trivial app for Windows Phone and getting $100 and a Lumia 521, which was pretty good IMO. Google acted terribly towards Windows Phone, breaking Youtube and anything else 3rd party devs or Microsoft wrote for Windows Phone. Google Maps for mobile browsers was pretty awful until Google was sure that AT&T and Verizon were done selling Windows Phones