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For sure, so many of its features were far ahead of the competition. Sleek minimilist UX, live tiles, Qi wireless charging, kids mode, Cortana, search within se
by paxys 1y ago
For sure, so many of its features were far ahead of the competition. Sleek minimilist UX, live tiles, Qi wireless charging, kids mode, Cortana, search within settings (so simple yet no one did it at the time). Continuum let you plug your phone into a monitor and use it like a full Windows desktop (many years before Samsung Dex and other similar efforts on Android). "Universal apps" that could run on desktop/mobile/web. Sucks that Microsoft fumbled it so bad.
- tonyhart7 1y agoits really sucks to develop windows phone at the time I guess MS really learn it lesson and go ham on opensource ecosystem if its today MS that launch windows phone, I think they can take off
- Den_VR 1y agoAll I really wanted from the Windows phone was the ability to pull up powershell and run some simple scripts :(
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoI don't think that's why it failed
- attendant3446 1y agoLooking at the state of Windows 11, I doubt that.
- freeone3000 1y agoStill no. It failed due to lack of apps. Apple and Android have twenty years of app ecosystem behind them at this point. If launched today, it will still fail due to lack of apps.
- fakedang 1y agoThey could if they made the same looks with an underlying Android OS, just like Huawei and all the Chinese brands which have been barred from Google Android.
- freeone3000 1y agoThen there’s no point? Just make a launcher? (They did make a launcher. Nobody used it either.)
- tonyhart7 1y agoreading comprehension
- wkat4242 1y agoMost of those apps have been completely rebuilt in the last couple of years. Everyone does that regularly. They could easily add a new platform at that point.
- tguvot 1y agoContinuum seems to be released in 2015. Motorola Atrix that had desktop mode was released in 2011
- Grazester 1y agoLet's not also tell op that I was using Qi Wireless charging on my Google Nexus 4 in 2012.