The annoying part is: if your read the responses? Fanboys are hard at work to attack MS to save their precious Apple. How can anybody ho.to bat for a company that much.
Like it is fanboying at a whole new level.
Gosh, I loved windows phone Soo much! Google and Apple actively killed it! That and anti tile idiots that never worked with the system. It was miles better than he competition!
But Google would sue Microsoft if they released any YouTube client. They were forced to use their browser, and when called upon it in court? The judges agreed! It was sheer madness.
Seriously the amount of anti-consumer and monopoly bullshit that was allowed,simply so lobby groups could have their way and kill of competition? (Nokia (The N900! What a machine), Palm, Blackberry, Windows Phone)… it’s staggering.
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I vaguely remember reading an article in which Gates or somebody high up took the blame for Windows Phone’s failure. Something about how handling it properly was on their to-do list but it went on the backburner and by the time they realized, it was too late. I wish I had gotten the chance to try one. I was a big Google fanboy at the time so I never gave it a proper shake.
Basically it was really snappy, the UI ran well on modest hardware and you could very easily work with it. Gestures were very intuitive even in the browser. I spend weeks swiping to the left and right for “forward and backwards” on the Android phone that replaced it 
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They really nailed the user interface, but yeah, you could notice that it was on the backburner and they should have pushed it far more. It was leagues better than Windows Mobile, the only issue was that you couldn’t just put your own programs on it, but that was soon fixed as people cracked them and you got other software repositories.
I really miss it, it was superior in many ways. But people tended to just compare specs and SOCs, not looking at how snappy the UI would work or the software. It ran circles around Android devices with far better spec.
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Real shame that it went that way then, I probably would have really enjoyed it.
Yeah was a fun time too, their phones were really colorful, so you could recognize others that had it. Gave you a certain “pfft, we are better than them” feeling lol ;). I had it for ages, and to this day it is quite snappy and still boots up if I need it :). Went everywhere with me including actions 
al be it in airplane mode for those 
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That was Ballmer. His relationship with Gates soured due to being late to the mobile phone revolution.
Windows Phone was. amazing btw. All the interfaces for iOS and Android still feel dated.
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I had the yellow and cyan versions of the 920.
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I still have the Lumia 520. I’m just gonna keep it to remember Windows Phone.
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I had the 920 in red, served me well for years. Almost bought an IPhone SE, as I needed Skype for work and they no longer supported Skype on it.
But when I got in that awful Apple shop, too bright it always gives me a headache - seriously for claimed superior ux designers they don’t know interior design-,the salesperson insulted my phone. Going on and on about “winning team!” and that tiles sucked, he just couldn’t take a hint. Maybe they are trained to badmouth certain topics to get sales? Like Windows 8 is hated by certain people? But it goes counter sales tactics, you never badmouth a person’s current workhorse!
Needless I dropped the phone back in it’s cradle and told them :" Sorry, I like diversity not just bright white." And walked away. Man, I used to like Apple so much before it bece this fashionista bullshit.
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Why did you bring up Windows Phone?
weeping on my Lumia 950
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Shhh. It’s okay, they are in a better place now. Our hearts.
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I thought is was relevant to this anti-competitive case, cause Apple and Google stopped WP from competing and the fact that a lot of these app developers who deliberately skipped WP are now complaining that Apple is unfair.
I am a massive WP fan and am disappointed in Microsoft for killing Window 10X.
My HP Elite x3 and 950XL were my favourite. Really wish I could get more use out of them.
Anyway to stay on topic, these fake tech enthusiasts are really biased. The walled garden argument would work for them if Apple didn’t actually host malware on multiple occasions through the AppStore. Also the AppStore has many junk and poor quality apps, so that that argument is out the window. Apple brass discussed disclosing 128-million iPhone hack, then decided not to | Ars Technica
It doesn’t matter if IOS was a jail or not, hackers will always find ways to exploit vulnerabilities in the OS.
Although I am not an Open Source evangelist, I like this page from the GNU organisation’s website. Apple’s Operating Systems are Malware - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
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You’re completely correct! They are full of it, they are just Apple fanboys and people that give their info for free shit to Google. These tech reviewers were always the first to point to specs alone and the app gap. Rather than look at ease of useand how Apple and Google were doing antimarket practices. They were so full of it that it was just annoying to read.
And the app devs were bad as well. Now they complain, but this is the bed they made. When Palm, Microsoft and he Linux community (N900 what a machine!), needed them they had to almost be dragged to those platforms. And even then it was often a really cheap browser version inside an app!
Now Apple and Google rule, and they have to deal with the monster they created! Including the cult of Apple.
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The worst tactic was Google keeping YouTube intentionally off Windows Phone. The gaming world has its equivalents like these.
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Yeah, that was infuriating to watch. Especially how ignorant (digitally, as otherwise these people are quite learned) judges just felt for lobbied and corporate lawyers each time Google sued Microsoft over making their own version. Even when they used Google’s own API!
They used GOOGLES API! It was sickening to see just how everybody just fell in line to protect the duopoly. And now they are in the very bed they created, crying salty tears into a metaphorical pillow. They had so many chances, and they let it happen .
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Tom Warren and Co are quick.