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Windows phone was the biggest shutdown of all time. Off the top of my head, there's also Edge and Silverlight.
by Aunche 4y ago
Windows phone was the biggest shutdown of all time. Off the top of my head, there's also Edge and Silverlight.
- jedberg 4y agoEdge and Silverlight both had replacements. Windows phone was shut down because almost no one cared. The difference is Google shuts down services people actually like and use simply because they aren't profitable enough
- jsmith99 4y agoAnd windows phone still got updates for over 2 years even after the shutdown, despite the fact it had been semi dead for years before then.
- pjmlp 4y ago10% of Europeans cared, but it wasn't enough.
- Aunche 4y agoIn terms of market share, Windows phone was a few percent, but that's still millions of phones. Silverlight may have a replacement, but that doesn't help the devs who sunk their time developing with it. Same for people writing extensions for and debugging compatibility with Edge.
- jsnell 4y agoSo is your argument that people liked and cared about Stadia? Because right now it feels like a really odd double standard. Go read through that canonical "Killed by Google" list. How many of those products were more popular than Windows phone / had users be more invested in it / etc? Be honest, it's a handful. Most of them you hadn't even heard of. It feels like you have a double standard at play here, and are giving both Microsoft and Amazon a free pass on their abattoirs of dead products by various excuses, and totally ignoring that those same excuses would apply to Google's.
- 5560675260 4y agoWhat's the replacement for Silverlight? Or do you mean it had replacement in a sense that nothing stops devs from going back to JS?