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Windows Phone 7 didn’t ship until 2 years after Android. 2 more years later Windows Phone 8 was released and it was a legitimate option but just too late. Pre-
by dpark 8d ago
Windows Phone 7 didn’t ship until 2 years after Android. 2 more years later Windows Phone 8 was released and it was a legitimate option but just too late.
Pre-7 was just not an operating system that anyone except the geekiest of geeks wanted to use.
- SoftTalker 8d agoYeah I guess Apple set too high a bar and MS was caught flatfooted (again) and was too far behind.
- dpark 8d agoI don’t have visibility into what happened with the Windows Phone team, but Android from what I understand saw immediately that they needed to follow Apple’s lead and pivoted (originally they were building something closer to a BlackBerry). The Windows Phone team either didn’t believe they need to pivot initially or they just took too long to do so. Windows Phone is a case study of missed opportunity.
- hurfdurf 7d agoNot doing any OS upgrades from 7 to 8 and only very few from 8.x to 10 certainly didn't help either.