Windows Phone diehards liked to blame the YouTube thing for the downfall, and not Microsoft's incompetence in cobbling together something of a competent OS by t

Windows Phone diehards liked to blame the YouTube thing for the downfall, and not Microsoft's incompetence in cobbling together something of a competent OS by the time the iPhone dropped. And even a decade later they had done 3 major reboots, never letting the platform mature. They didn't have a real potential competitor to the iPhone until the release of Windows Phone 7 in 2010, 3 years after the iPhone hit the market. Then they rebooted it again in 2014 with Windows Phone 8, and again in 2016 with Windows 10 Mobile. They didn't even have a notification shade until Windows Phone 8.1 in 2014. And no, as cool as the live tiles were, they were not a replacement for a notifications shade which shows you only your notifications, rather than scrolling your entire list of apps and scanning your eyes around for relevant information as shit's appearing and disappearing cause all your apps are constantly animating. It was an absolutely bizarre UX. And if we really want to talk about the YouTube thing, I have a hard time blaming Google for what they did. They didn't want to put the resources into making an app for a platform that nobody was using and likely wouldn't have broken even on resources/money spent, and they weren't going to let Microsoft handle creating and distributing a fake "official" app that represents their brand. Google didn't kill Windows Phone, Microsoft did.