Why not update old Windows Phone 7 to 8?

[fraddy]

They can make money by building a customer base of loyal supporters or aggressively sell their stuff. Guess what brings better long-term results? They will probably be a niche software provider within about 5-10 years.

 

[colinkiama]

They can make money by building a customer base of loyal supporters or aggressively sell their stuff. Guess what brings better long-term results? They will probably be a niche software provider within about 5-10 years.

Even if the update existed, you would have so much lag that you would hate Microsoft even more. Please be a loyal customer by upgrading.

 

[ArthJar]

[...]will probably see a number of WP8+ users crying over MS claiming WP9 needs octacore processors or something else[...]

LOLOLOL
Nice Joke, but that ain't gonna happen soon.

 

[fraddy]

6.5 --> 7.0, 7.5 --> 8.0 and you're saying they won't do it again?

 

[anon5644628]

Or forcing users to another platform, where they wont get abandoned in 6 months.

Fabulous thought process. I imagine that's exactly what you're pondering as your next move. Me, too.

 

[colinkiama]

6.5 --> 7.0, 7.5 --> 8.0 and you're saying they won't do it again?

no, its because they kept changing kernels, i don't think they abandon their customers for a while as WP 8 shares the same kernel as Windows 8.

 

[anon5878284]

Yup, they had major reasons.

6.5 was for different hardware, mostly capacitive screens for styli and the hardware buttons varied a lot.

7.5 was a different story. They had to rework almost every bit of the code. If I had time, I would have proved this through a lengthy post. In short, the WP7.8 Start Screen isn't a port of the WP8 one at all. It is totally different code. I have bugs on 7.8 Screen which do not exist on 8, even though the former was derived from the latter.

 

[dba415]

This thread is funny. If Microsoft really wanted to port WP8 on to wp7 devices, they could do it easily. I mean they have a bunch of software engineers getting paid a lot of money, they could do it.

They won't do it because it's not worth the time/money/resources to do it, plain and simple.

 

[negative1ne]

LOLOLOL
Nice Joke, but that ain't gonna happen soon.

it will happen sooner than you think.

8 core Arm chip:
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Qualcomm’s 4- and 8-core Snapdragon 610 and 615 trade CPU power for 64-bit | Ars Technica

just a matter of time.

later
-1

 

[colinkiama]

it will happen sooner than you think.

8 core Arm chip:
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Qualcomm’s 4- and 8-core Snapdragon 610 and 615 trade CPU power for 64-bit | Ars Technica

just a matter of time.

later
-1

5S has 64 bit processor. Does anyone with an iphone 4 onwards have to buy one.. No!!