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I know there are a lot of you, and there always will be. But how many more Windows Phone licenses would Microsoft be selling if they were the online photo shari

I know there are a lot of you, and there always will be. But how many more Windows Phone licenses would Microsoft be selling if they were the online photo sharing platform instead of a distant also-ran? WinFS was the wrong strategic move because cross-device availability and network effects dwarf whatever value you can get out of a local store. It's exactly the reason web mail won for consumers.

csmuk 13y ago
Note: I own a windows phone. It syncs photos with SkyDrive, allows you to post to facebook etc. It allows choice. Suprisingly, Windows has always allowed choice. Web mail won for consumers for a bit. Now it's heading towards apps and sync which are omnipresent on all platforms now. WinFS was replaced with metadata indexing which didn't incur the system-level performance hit. Metadata indexing is there on iOS, Windows at least. Edit: I don't actually take photos with my phone unless it's a quick shot of my car parked to make sure I don't get a dodgy ticket.