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Microsoft is like a competitor in a Three-legged race (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-legged_race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-legged_race) except b
by muststopmyths 8y ago
Microsoft is like a competitor in a Three-legged race (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-legged_race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-legged_race) except both runners are running in opposite directions.
You have one side that's actively working to make Windows obsolete and another that's flailing about trying to make it relevant somehow.
I'm a bitter ex-Windows Phone user, so my perspective could be colored.
- titanix2 8y agoI was a WP7&8 user as well as developer and yes the whole story left me a bitter taste, especially at the end. I had fun getting phones for free, participating at MS hackhatons, making friends and of course learning to develop mobile apps but it seems every decisions by MS during after Mango have been against the consumer. Also at the time the store took 30% as well...