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the microsoft phone missed an incredible opportunity to undercut the established platforms by both supporting native (windows) apps, but also encourage web base
by chii 3y ago
the microsoft phone missed an incredible opportunity to undercut the established platforms by both supporting native (windows) apps, but also encourage web based mobile "apps" (this was the era that pwa would've been able to take root). Unfortunately, microsoft thought they would get enough native clout to own a platform instead of giving in to a standard.
- rchaud 3y agoYou wouldn't be saying this if you had used the absolutely pathetic browser they shipped with Windows Phone. They even called it "Internet Explorer", that's how blind they were to brand damage done by IE6. Mobile web apps were pretty janky until 2016 or so, and the last Windows Phone came out in 2014.