Apple and Google will gladly erase the works of developers to chase profits.

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    It’s been years, and I still miss windowsphone so much. I knew we were fucked when they axed it and iPhone and android were already starting to stall out with a duopoly.

    At one point, we had blackberry, some form of meego, Windowsphone, android and iOS, as well as niche things like jolla and sailfish.

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      Eh? Microsoft and Windowsphone basically killed the only real alternative to Android and iOS when they did their hostile takeover of Nokia, and Windowsphone itself was an atrocity that luckily died rather quickly.

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        Windowsphone itself was an atrocity that luckily died rather quickly.

        “Tell me you never used Windows Phone without telling me you never used Windows Phone”

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          My first phone was a Windows Phone. It could send and receive calls and messages, and it had a crappy but functional web browser, but it didn’t have any of the fun apps my friends’ phones had.

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          I have used WindowsPhone and it was strictly worse than Nokia’s Meego running on a N900/N9.

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            It was faster than Android or iOS, better optimised, had massively better features (like People Hub, Message Hub, etc), and the best cameras on the market at the time.

            But, yeah, it was an “atrocity” because you couldn’t install Snapchat…

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              It got Snapchat in the end, there was some guy who made a whole bunch of missing apps, including a tinder app which worked better than the original.

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                Rudy Huyn. Ended up working at Microsoft. He was doing a bunch of apps, but I think you might be confusing Snapchat for Instagram. His Instagram app worked for a year or two, but Snapchat killed any attempt at a third party app immediately, as soon as they realised what’s going on.

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              “Tell me you never used an N900/N9 without telling me you never used N900/N9”

              There, fixed it for you 😅

              The Meego phones that Nokia had were miles ahead of WindowsPhone. I am not even talking about iOS and Android (Android was indeed also pretty bad back then).

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                Soooo… Your argument for “Windows Phone was an atrocity” is that a completely different OS was better?

                Make it make sense.

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                  No, my argument is that is was really bad compared to what it replaced on Nokia phones. The first Nokia WindowsPhones basically used the hardware of the N9 but with this horrible OS no one other than the Microsoft execs wanted.

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                    It’s such an insane comparison, Christ…

                    Nokia never had a sliver of the smartphone market. It was always iOS vs Android.

                    Windows Phone (8, granted, but still) had around 21% in Europe at its peak.

                    So, not “only MS execs wanted it”, 1 in 5 people in Europe wanted it. And, if I remember right, in the US it was around 10%, which is still not bad considering Google, Snapchat and Facebook were actively attempting to kill it in the crib.