Yeah, I think you're right, it was cultural. For me, rather than the influence from Windows what I see is the focus on what we called "enterprise customers" at

Yeah, I think you're right, it was cultural. For me, rather than the influence from Windows what I see is the focus on what we called "enterprise customers" at the time and leadership was obsessed about them because they were guaranteed huge orders for large numbers of devices. They largely don't exist as a thing anymore, BYOD killed them. Enterprise customers and operators didn't view the fs of a mobile device as a thing the end user should manage or care about. So neither did we, or our OEMs (for the most part). Of course, this is all just the opinions of one guy decades after the fact. For reference, I was a dev, lead, dev manager in the CE/mobile/phone teams from ~00-08 and contributed to ActiveSync, device PIM sync, device stability, and later worked directly with OEMs to design and build new phones (things like the Samsung BlackJack).