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People say this now in hindsight, but I very, very distinctly remember how people ridiculed any efforts at creating a third ecosystem. You had very influential
by skc 3y ago
People say this now in hindsight, but I very, very distinctly remember how people ridiculed any efforts at creating a third ecosystem. You had very influential tech sites literally memeing the likes of Windows Phone or Palm or Blackberry's renewed efforts.
Of course that ended up having a massive negative effect on the willingness of developers to support these platforms.
If the argument is that they just weren't good enough, then nobody should be complaining today seeing as we now have by definition the best mobile platform in iOS.
If I sound bitter it's probably because I still think back fondly to my Nokia Lumia devices. :(
- r00fus 3y agoI blame Microsoft for sticking the knife into Nokia via Stephen Elop. Nokia wasn’t doing that well initially responding to Apple but I think they may have done better that what Microsoft tried to do.