I'd argue that Windows Phone was poorly executed on Microsoft's part due to redoing the OS 3 times in its short lifecycle. Every redoing forced developers to re

I'd argue that Windows Phone was poorly executed on Microsoft's part due to redoing the OS 3 times in its short lifecycle. Every redoing forced developers to rewrite their apps in the new platform. Then Microsoft couldn't get cell phone makers to commit to updates leaving a splattering of versions that supported only subsets of features all over the place. Initially the phone had a following and if Microsoft built that following up, developers would have jumped on board.