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You didn’t miss the “mobile wave”. You purposely gave up. Idiots.
We were lucky and dodged that future enshitification bullet.
True. As much as I hate to admit it, the Windows phones were actually pretty good.
Had they not botched app adoption and then immediately given up, they could have done fairly well.
Agreed I have been a Linux Stan since the 90s and even I thought windows phone was pretty good.
The windows phones were fucking magical
They freaking gave up on anything quickly if they are not immediately the leader in the market.
They're the present day IBM, complete with supporting the present day version of the NAZIs whilst they commit their very own version of the Holocaust.
They tried; it must've been 4 times. But unless it's a sure thing, they'll give up.
I worry they don't know how to compete on a level ground, slowly building trust and business on success after success.
I used a Windows Mobile PDA (Dell Axim X50v) for years before the iPhone came out. It was great at the time. Few other things could provide video, games, music, and a web browser in your pocket at the time but WM2003 with the Opera browser and some other apps did quite well. I kept using that thing even into the Android and iPhone era.
It also didn't help that they did a complete rebuild of Windows Phone OS 3 times, making old apps incompatible and forcing the very little support of app developers to get alienated from the platform. Why would you completely rebuild your app 3 times for a super low market share product.
Satya may have grown the company share price but he's absolutely killed everything that made Microslop even remotely interesting before he became CEO.