WP was shitty, Microsoft didn't commit enough to it, they expected the competition to be stale (at the time, Android was still shitty, but it improved dramatically), Nokia had a Trojan Horse-CEO, etc This all made Nokia fail, they should have indeed adopted Android.
Now Nokia is attempting a comeback. The brand got released from Microsoft's hold and it partnered with its old Manufacturer. Basically, what got split now is coming together again. There's a catch now, their phones will run Pure Android, they also have a Pajeet CEO, which is selling Nokia's patents using-rights to Xiaomi at the price of nothing, maybe to pull some capital to restart, but still, the company's butchering continues.
Never goes full Globalist.
Evan Powell
I doubt a new system would be viable at this point, unless you're absolutely massive and put all your weight behind it (like Samsung could do to Tizen but haven't yet). Using pure Android is the only sensible option for Nokia.
Dylan Clark
why the hell did I sell my N9?
Julian Reed
Get another one, they're cheap on eBay.
John Johnson
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Logan Carter
I'm getting to the point that alls I really need to find is a phone with a keyboard attached I fucking hate apple for popularizing this shit tier "Touchscreen" crap. In fact fuck touchscreens in general, they suck; its extra power consumption, extra drivers, for reduced performance and for fucking twats to smudge your screen intentionally. Wouldn't surprise me if the next thing wikileaks puts out is that the cia and nsa were collecting everyones fucking fingerprints because touchscreens get smeared in the oil of these paint chip eating cunts.
Xavier Flores
Looks like only WP8.1 is dead, and they'll scrap by with W10mobile. I bought a Samsung Focus on day 1 when WP7 came out, and I liked it a lot because it was different. Went through a few Lumia's, finally ending on a 950 which just pushed me over the edge to ditch it due to the various problems I had with it. Traded in the 950 for Note 7 and I was extremely happy I ditched the struggling platform.
I had some of the same problems with the speaker and music randomly deciding to play. The lack of apps and functionality is what just killed me, despite the nice design of the handset and the nice camera, without the app support it's dead. I can't do my banking on it, I can't set up my car alarm on it, I can't set up my smart home devices on it, fuck THERE ISN'T EVEN A YOUTUBE APP. Want to IM your friends? Good fucking luck getting some random ass third party app to work, or install the fucked up ICQ app and pray that Google lets you connect your account to it. I'm not sure if I can fault MS for the lack of marketing though. They have this shit in TV shows and whatnot, but all the cellular stores I went to everyone just pushed iPhones and Android devices. Every time I went to upgrade my WP with a new one the store always pushed iPhone and Android. Even the displays for WP they were scratched to hell, not even working, and just in disarray. RIP
Camden Bennett
The first version was dogshit and basic things like sockets and native code didn't work. So if you wanted to target it you needed to basically rewrite your app from scratch in a gimped C# unlike how you had tech to target both iPhone and Android with mostly the same codebase. Microsoft made no attempt at compatibility as if they were already the monopoly player in mobile despite low sales. Few app devs were willing to deal with a full rewrite on a broken OS (WP7) to reach like 1% of the market so the phone lacked apps. Microsoft started paying bounties for apps and this resulted in a whole mess of low quality copycat apps from Chyna giving WP a user experience like a prebuilt Dell full of shitware. By the time they released WP8, which should have been their first release, the damage was done and it was over.
Serves them right, too. I used to work with MSR around 2000-2003 on a WinCE collab and I fucking told them repeatedly they needed OpenGL support on it so we could do amazing things with the UI and it'd be huge and they'd just stare at me like I was a moron. They could have easily beat Apple by years, instead they kept wanking about their xbox hueg quicktyping dpad they never even released because it was fundamentally stupid, and going crazy about e-ink for years that absolutely no one outside of Microsoft ever gave a single fuck about.
Bentley Bailey
I think Microsoft is going to be the linux of the mobile community so they'll probably try to poz the third world(get those sweet sweet rupees) and much like Linux it will take some fantastic stunt of incredible cockishness on Google's part to get folks to leave their platform for mobile.
I imagine something like the w10 update system would turn folks right the fuck off from Google's Android in the mobile platform, they already have the datamining (microsoft has done it in the wrong order) there's a reason why the folks running compsci at my school refuse to put w10 on anything meant for the coder's(CIS guys not so lucky) so unless Google manages to sink its own boat Microsoft will be irrelevant in mobile.
I think some of it was that the apps were all meant to get people on the platform. The chat clients are garbage and even worse garbage on other platforms. Stories? I know Microsoft has at best a grudging opinion of anything with word open in it.
Kayden Watson
Huezilian here. They tried. For a short bit there were tons of ads for WP and I actually saw a few people with them on the bus. And then, poof, the ads disappeared. I suppose they were taking a loss on each sale, which isn't sustainable.
