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That his letter pointed out a real problem never seemed controversial. The shocking part was tying themselves to MS without a reasonable backup plan. They thou

by _ea1k 4y ago

That his letter pointed out a real problem never seemed controversial. The shocking part was tying themselves to MS without a reasonable backup plan. They thought they couldn't build hardware good enough to compete with other Android makers, but somehow convinced themselves that the solution to that was to put their less competitive hardware onto a less competitive platform.

anthropodie 4y ago
> They thought they couldn't build hardware good enough to compete with other Android makers, But that is so wrong. Hardware was their strength. They could've sticked to what they knew best and over time do what's necessary.
- LtWorf 4y ago
  It seems you never tried a windows phone. They were slow. Really slow. Typing was so slow. Opening the camera app even more so.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    Owned most Lumia models, Android were even slower. Starting with Window Phone 8 everything was native code, even .NET, while on Android the first Dalvik versions didn't even had a JIT.
  - mrdatawolf 4y ago
    This is not true. In fact if you actually go back and read the articles on it, one of the strengths was how responsive it was on hardware that was much weaker then what android needed. It has its problems but you are literally taking it's strength and pretending it was a flaw 0_o
    - LtWorf 4y ago
      I had one. I know first hand.
flomo 4y ago
> That his letter pointed out a real problem never seemed controversial. Only in retrospect. At the time, the internet was full of people who thought Symbian was Just Fine. And they had sales figures of millions of (mostly 12-key) "smartphones[0]" to prove it. And then this shifted to "Lost Causeism" when whatever MooMooMo platform never got off the ground. [0] Okay, I had one of these and you could check your email or do a google search, but obviously the iphone it was not.
- arpa 4y ago
  the "MooMooMo" platform community is still alive, funnily enough.

by _ea1k 4y ago

anthropodie 4y ago

> They thought they couldn't build hardware good enough to compete with other Android makers, But that is so wrong. Hardware was their strength. They could've sticked to what they knew best and over time do what's necessary.

LtWorf 4y ago
It seems you never tried a windows phone. They were slow. Really slow. Typing was so slow. Opening the camera app even more so.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  Owned most Lumia models, Android were even slower. Starting with Window Phone 8 everything was native code, even .NET, while on Android the first Dalvik versions didn't even had a JIT.
- mrdatawolf 4y ago
  This is not true. In fact if you actually go back and read the articles on it, one of the strengths was how responsive it was on hardware that was much weaker then what android needed. It has its problems but you are literally taking it's strength and pretending it was a flaw 0_o
  - LtWorf 4y ago
    I had one. I know first hand.

flomo 4y ago

> That his letter pointed out a real problem never seemed controversial. Only in retrospect. At the time, the internet was full of people who thought Symbian was Just Fine. And they had sales figures of millions of (mostly 12-key) "smartphones[0]" to prove it. And then this shifted to "Lost Causeism" when whatever MooMooMo platform never got off the ground. [0] Okay, I had one of these and you could check your email or do a google search, but obviously the iphone it was not.

arpa 4y ago
the "MooMooMo" platform community is still alive, funnily enough.