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Yes, exactly that. I got onto windows phone with 8.0 and it was very nice to use even if app support was lacking. I steadily saw it decline. 8.1 took away much
by Joeri 6y ago
Yes, exactly that. I got onto windows phone with 8.0 and it was very nice to use even if app support was lacking. I steadily saw it decline. 8.1 took away much of what made it unique in the hope of getting better app support (narrator: it didn’t) but still remained fast and stable. Windows phone 10 was an outright disaster, slow and buggy, with no advantage to the user.
Maybe microsoft was always doomed in the mobile space because of app support, but they did a lot of things wrong that sealed the deal.
- toast0 6y ago> Maybe microsoft was always doomed in the mobile space because of app support, but they did a lot of things wrong that sealed the deal. I don't think they really were. They were actually gaining market share in the 8.x days, in part because their low priced phones were a lot more usable than similarly priced Android phones. Had they continued that trend with 10, instead of making a terrible release and pivoting towards high priced phones, they might have gotten enough market share to change developer's minds. And it's not like Microsoft didn't have experience on breaking into a market; the first xbox was weird and different, but they became a top tier console.