I recently switched to a Galaxy Note 8 , boy am I missing my Windows Phone. So many great things are just not on Android or iPhone. Anyone else mourning Windows Phone?
I went through WP withdrawal symptoms a year or so ago. An Android would be my daily driver, but I'd always buy, sell, buy again a 1520 or a 950XL every few months. It was fun while it lasted. I'm invested in the Android ecosystem fully now though. I am keeping my eyes open for whatever MS does in the future however.
I recently switched to a Galaxy Note 8 , boy am I missing my Windows Phone. So many great things are just not on Android or iPhone. Anyone else mourning Windows Phone?
Nothing can ever replace the Windows Phone for me. The UI/UX is unique and simple to use. Looks really good too .
Android over complicates the necessities and crams in a lot of unnecessary stuff imo. Not to mention there is fragmentation between each vendor and in the ecosystem itself. Makes for a plethora of choices for folks, but that is about it as this gives no appearance of uniformity. It is why Android is popular. It is geared to appease almost any flavor of personality . I am just glad the current Windows Phones I have that run W10M are good until 2019 or so
iOS/Apple is more like Microsoft. Or Microsoft more like Apple than it is to Android. Android you can kind of adapt with and use it over time. Apple I feel you either like it and use it or you don't. However Apple has its own qwerks.
Microsoft Windows mobile has its share of quandaries too of course.
Be nice if things were different for Microsoft and they chose to continue in the phone market...for us anyway...
Was it Microsoft who was unable to execute for folks in the app arena. Thus most decided quickly to flock to other Operating Systems and hardware, or was it the lack of newer devices? 6, half a dozen, or the whatever I guess. They are still migrating to UWP (work in progress), but from my perspective even as big as they are they could or chose not keep everything above water in the app store while doing so. Combined with business model to not look back at their mobile assets except to be obligated to support the mobile OS, is hard to deal with I suppose.
In perspective could you imagine if Apple chose to do something like above? Would there be riots in the streets out in front of their stores? Probably not or who knows, but there would be a heck of lot more unhappy users voicing stuff. I got to hand it to Microsoft in that they are doing what is best for the future of its users and itself as a corporation. They have not completely shunned mobile users and in a way have been able to help keep the ones that really need to use the Windows phone platform. It is a difficult spot for them to work through, but seems they are doing what they can to create as little pain as possible over time . I don't know, what do you all think?
It'd be nice, but no.Think MS would ever make W10m open source? Or let a company like HP buy it?