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My recollection is that they pulled the plug before anybody had the time to finish an app. Things take time. Users and Developers both want a nice solid founda

• vineyardmike 3y ago
  It had been years. They pulled the plug in like 2017. It was a decade after the iPhone. They didn’t think 1y out. And big tech did their duty and built apps for it (like Snapchat, Google, Yelp) because some marginal number of users were there. But the long tail of apps weren’t there.
  • jay_kyburz 3y ago
    Yes, after I posted my comment I went and read a nice summary and timeline on Wikipedia. I still think they could have been more patient, if they had kept Nokia, and had phones next sitting next to their laptops in the big brand stores, I think they could have broken in. I think they still could. I was reading that in 2017, the last version had some "convergent" stuff where you could dock your phone and plugin a keyboard an monitor and it would act like a full PC. Sounds awesome. I would have doubled down on that. Make phones real computers that you carry with you. Not dumb appliances. Be as different as possible. Like the Nintendo strategy in the console wars. Don't compete on simplicity and usability, compete on power and customization. Something like that.