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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 sti

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.