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That's almost word for word what people said about Windows Phone when I was at Microsoft.
by CSMastermind 2y ago
That's almost word for word what people said about Windows Phone when I was at Microsoft.
- atorodius 2y agoWas the Windows Phone ever at the frontier tho?
- scarmig 2y agoWindows Phone was superior to everything else on the market at the time. But phones are an ecosystem, and MS was a latecomer.
- blinding-streak 2y agoThat's a wild claim. Windows phone was garbage from the start. And the UI was terrible.
- zaptrem 2y agoIt is a lot easier to switch LLMs than it is to switch smartphone platforms.
- onlyrealcuzzo 2y agoBut Windows Phone was actually good, like Xune, it was just late, and it was incredibly popular to hate Microsoft at the time. Additionally, Microsoft didn't really have any advantage in the smart phone space. Google is already a product the majority of people on the planet use regularly to answer questions. That seems like a competitive advantage to me.
- machiaweliczny 2y agoYeah, I liked my windows phone, not sure why they killed it
- wraptile 2y ago> But Windows Phone was actually good I think people just have rose-tinted glasses on. Sure the hardware from Nokia was great, but software was very poor even by the standards of that time.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y agoWindows Phone was actually great though, and would've eventually been a major player in the space if Microsoft were stubborn enough to stick with it long enough, like they did with the Xbox. By his own admission, Gates was extremely distracted at the time by the antitrust cases in Europe, and he let the initiative die.