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Microsoft, of course, famously did create their own phone OS. It wasn’t bad either, but among other problems they were a little late to market and there were no
by eli 6y ago
Microsoft, of course, famously did create their own phone OS. It wasn’t bad either, but among other problems they were a little late to market and there were no apps for it. A real chicken and egg problem. Not worth the engineering effort to build an app for a tiny marketshare and no one wants a smartphone that can’t even hail an Uber.
- dtx1 6y agoHaving developed for windows phone 8, 8.1 and 10 i can say with certainty that it was bad in a plethora of ways and microsoft's constant over promising and under delivering made it worse.
- eli 6y agoCompared to competing OSes at the time? I don’t remember any being particularly fun. (But also I didn’t spend much time in the Windows Phone ecosystem) But I think you’re right that MS lost focus on developers on mobile. Ironic given "developers, developers, developers" was the literal mantra.