If MS cancelled all future phone development, what would you do?

[big dooze]

​ok, so after 2 week trial with the iPhone, I realized the functionality of the Windows Phone has more benefit to me, than a few apps. The Mail, calendar, and phone apps on Windows Phone are so much more user-friendly.
Mail-the native mail app on IOS wouldn't sync with my corporate O365 domain, therefore I had to download the Outlook app, which IS NOT fun. It doesn't do a great job of combining multiple mail acocunts into a single instance.
​Calendar-if all you want to know are peoples birthdays, etc its fine...howeer, if you do a lot of meetings, and need to send calendar invites to additional users, i iPhone can not do that
​Phone-this was shocking...the IPhone phone app was incredibly hard to navigate. Search was at the top, contacts, missed calls, messages at the bottom.the text was very small.
based on those struggles and the announcement of the potential of adding android apps to windows made enough sense for me to re-consider and return the iPhone and continue with my HTC One. I will save my upgrade for the flagship windows device when it comes out this summer.

 

[StevoPhilo]

As ridiculous as this might sound I'd consider The Amazon Fire phone or a Blackberry before I jump back to Android. iOS is too limiting.

 

[EssThree]

​based on those struggles and the announcement of the potential of adding android apps to windows made enough sense for me to re-consider and return the iPhone and continue with my HTC One. I will save my upgrade for the flagship windows device when it comes out this summer.

Interesting. I think it's funny how people talk about the iPhone being user friendly, though whenever I hear anything about how it works these days it sounds anything but.

 

[machail]

Put my broken 920 and running 930 on a shrine and pray to te gods of resurrection to bring the platform back.
​Seriously.

 

[jfa1]

​ok, so after 2 week trial with the iPhone, I realized the functionality of the Windows Phone has more benefit to me, than a few apps. The Mail, calendar, and phone apps on Windows Phone are so much more user-friendly.
Mail-the native mail app on IOS wouldn't sync with my corporate O365 domain, therefore I had to download the Outlook app, which IS NOT fun. It doesn't do a great job of combining multiple mail acocunts into a single instance.
​Calendar-if all you want to know are peoples birthdays, etc its fine...howeer, if you do a lot of meetings, and need to send calendar invites to additional users, i iPhone can not do that
​Phone-this was shocking...the IPhone phone app was incredibly hard to navigate. Search was at the top, contacts, missed calls, messages at the bottom.the text was very small.
based on those struggles and the announcement of the potential of adding android apps to windows made enough sense for me to re-consider and return the iPhone and continue with my HTC One. I will save my upgrade for the flagship windows device when it comes out this summer.

I have used simple calendar for a long time and like the look and for what I need as an attorney it foes okay. I was excited when MS bought Sunshine or is it sunrise calendar I am hoping that it will get in as an app or replace the stock calendar

 

[Exosoul]

I am an Android user, and while I don't like the fact that Windows phone did not had much of a leg to stand on, I am honestly not surprised if Microsoft decides to stop development for their phone OS. A lot of people look at Windows and like the fact that many Windows OS are very useful for productivity and especially when it comes to desktop. IMHO, they do pretty good with the desktop compared to mobile OS, but they just started with mobile OS a while ago.

If there is one app that should be available for Windows phone and it'll make me consider using one, I would enjoy a Windows phone app which is about .iso/.img CD/USB drive emulation. There is an Android app that'll allow me to do which is DriveDroid. That app actually allows me to run several different linux distro, and being able to ditch CD/USBs in favor of smartphone.

 

[RumoredNow]

^^^ Windows involvement in Mobile predates Android by a pretty long stretch of time. They've just redirectioned a lot.

Anyhow...

What I'd do is hope that Jolla Sailfish gets traction. It's a nice UX and a dynamic UI.

 

[alinauman97]

Switch to Android most probably.