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Windows Mobile the OS was so good. What let it down was that it was lacking many critical apps.
by lockhouse 3y ago
Windows Mobile the OS was so good. What let it down was that it was lacking many critical apps.
- 7thaccount 3y agoNever used Windows Mobile, but WindowsPhone 7 & 8 were great. Moving to Android was a major step town in ergonomics for me.
- lockhouse 3y agoOnce I learned that Android was supposed to be a BlackBerry OS clone that got pivoted at the last minute in a panic to compete with iOS it all makes sense.
- xp84 3y agoHypothetical: now that the web technologies are so much more powerful than they were 10 years ago, wouldn’t we all be much better off if most things ceased to be “Apps” anyway and became websites? The interesting thing I see is that most companies that ship a Mac app (that isn’t a game) now ship a web app in a thin Electron wrapper. And even though at least on iOS things seem slightly less HTML-ish, nobody uses any standard controls/UI anymore anyway, because everything must be branded and distinctive. I would kind of love to have a few competing OSs which were each supportable by essentially a checkbox in the cross-platform mobile app tooling people already seem to be using.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoI don't know why you were downvoted, you are absolutely right. Lots of apps could be web pages and they would be tiny and have much better control of permissions and updates. Apple knows this which is why they try to make sure it doesn't happen and threaten their app store.
- Nextgrid 3y agoMicrosoft didn't help by resetting the ecosystem 3 times with backwards-incompatible changes. Windows Phone 7 wasn't compatible with earlier Windows Mobile apps, Windows Phone 8 wasn't compatible with WP7, and Windows 10 wasn't compatible with WP8.