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Sort of reminds me of the Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_1020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_1020) from ab

Sort of reminds me of the Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_1020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_1020) from about 8 years ago. Not sure if there is something intrinsic about the huge camera lens feature that led to its demise, or if the main thing that did it in was the bug-ridden Windows Phone platform. Or some combination of the two? I can't help but think that if Apple were to do something like this that it would sell like wildfire.

dougmany 5y ago
This is the first time I heard Windows phone being called bug-ridden. It was an awesome phone OS. It did not have many apps but the platform was solid. I still miss the way copy and paste worked.
- steelframe 5y ago
  > This is the first time I heard Windows phone being called bug-ridden. From the Wikipedia article I linked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_1020#Reported_problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_1020#Reported_prob...
  - romwell 5y ago
    "Some users reported . . . " does not equal "bug-ridden". Windows Phone has been a very stable platform with stunning UX. The only real problem it had was the developer marketshare.
- pianoben 5y ago
  Once upon a time I was a Windows Phone developer, and I can confirm that it was monstrously difficult to write stable software for that platform. Many documented APIs just didn't adhere to their contracts, and you'd only learn by trial-and-error or, if you were lucky, by tracking down the Microsoft employee who wrote the API you were working with. As much as I loved the UX and rooted for the platform, the apps were just bad. Even first-party apps were depressingly crashy. This was circa Windows Phone 8; maybe it improved with subsequent releases.
romwell 5y ago
The Windows platform wasn't bug-ridden, it was a work-of-art UX, and I don't ever remember having issues with any of my Lumias. I held on to Windows Phone for a long time. That platform suffered a slow death by abandonment. I can still use that phone, it's just that I can't use half the apps on it anymore. The demise of Lumia was Microsoft pulling the plug on the OS.

dougmany 5y ago

This is the first time I heard Windows phone being called bug-ridden. It was an awesome phone OS. It did not have many apps but the platform was solid. I still miss the way copy and paste worked.

steelframe 5y ago
> This is the first time I heard Windows phone being called bug-ridden. From the Wikipedia article I linked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_1020#Reported_problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_1020#Reported_prob...
- romwell 5y ago
  "Some users reported . . . " does not equal "bug-ridden". Windows Phone has been a very stable platform with stunning UX. The only real problem it had was the developer marketshare.
pianoben 5y ago
Once upon a time I was a Windows Phone developer, and I can confirm that it was monstrously difficult to write stable software for that platform. Many documented APIs just didn't adhere to their contracts, and you'd only learn by trial-and-error or, if you were lucky, by tracking down the Microsoft employee who wrote the API you were working with. As much as I loved the UX and rooted for the platform, the apps were just bad. Even first-party apps were depressingly crashy. This was circa Windows Phone 8; maybe it improved with subsequent releases.

romwell 5y ago

The Windows platform wasn't bug-ridden, it was a work-of-art UX, and I don't ever remember having issues with any of my Lumias. I held on to Windows Phone for a long time. That platform suffered a slow death by abandonment. I can still use that phone, it's just that I can't use half the apps on it anymore. The demise of Lumia was Microsoft pulling the plug on the OS.