Why Did Windows Phone Fail?
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there's no users because there's no apps because there are no users because there are no apps...
Wrong, there are apps. It's just that devs much prefer Android and iOS despite Microsoft making it easy.
@Mihajlo Kaurin Today... he is not talking about today but about the state in 2016... there was more or less the peak and there where about 660k apps in the store... that was still not as many as Android or iOS had, but it was pretty much everything you needed and more. Today it is a different story but that is because Microsoft discontinued support and did not release any real sucessor of the Lumia 950XL anymore. The stupid thing was... in Europe it got larger market shares then iOS in many countries and was in others on the raise, but Nadella took over and he just shut down everything after a short while. It was a real shame and I really do not like him for that. He had to do that because WinPhone was considered as a very expensive project from Ballmer, but still... I am pretty positive that with 1 year of full developer support and aggressiv pricing, Windows 10 Mobile would have been a well established OS in Europe today and very likely start to grow in other countries too. But Nadella is all about Cloud... nothing else really matters for him.
And today, we are left with a duopol and not even one which is 50/50 with real competition but more or less one that Google already has won more or less.
Monopoles are very, very bad for everybody and we already see what happens there... Google can pretty much do what they want already and they have formed Android t a system only aimed at stealing data from its users.
@@ContinuumGaming Very true, the Lumia range was great & it's kinda similar to what's happening to Huawei right now-solid hardware, but backed down by lack of proper OS & apps.
I feel sad for Nokia as well. Windows Phone (OS) could have been like Linux-a very small percentage but good optimisation & continued support could with affordable & capable phones would have been awesome
@@sushimshah2896 Would have been great... I am still hoping for a Window 10X version of the Surface Duo... like it is asked for here:
www.change.org/p/panos-panay-satya-nadella-panos-satya-give-us-a-microsoft-surface-duo-running-windows-10x
@@FAT8893 so you're saying there's no apps
It's a shame because I liked my windows phone. The only problem was the lack of app support that got me to jump ship back to android
Yeah. Apps are outdated. SMH
I already abandoned Android in favour for Windows Phone, and I see no reason to go back to Android apart from mobile entertainment.
@@FAT8893 good luck with app support
@@sabyasachidas4680 So far, doing well for me.
Windows Phone is a horrible and miscalculating mistake.
What about Symbian. That OS was very popular on phones
Or maemo, i loved the Nokia n900
@Lucas Zhu To this day, it's still more functional and usable than WP.
@@Juanknes nah windows phone 10 works great. There are still some 3rd party versions of TH-cam and social media apps
@@sentry1234 you just have to run it on really outdated hardware. The best you could get is a snapdragon 820.
Symbian ran it's course in phone life. It COULD have been a major contender, but it was too dated. There were no updates to make it modern or fresh. It was a good Operating System, but Nokia's stubborn grasp suffocated it...
Reasons for Windows Phone's failure summed up:
1. Microsoft wanted to treat it like Windows of old with major updates once a year. It needed fast, iterative updates early as it was missing very key features of competing OSs like copy & paste and multi-tasking.
2. Charging for the OS when they were already far behind the leaders and thinking that would work - again, treating it like desktop Windows.
3. The app approval process was worse (slower, rejections for stupid crap) than Apple's but, stop me if I'm repeating myself here, you can't do that when you're starting out and massively behind.
4. Updates. Microsoft made such a big deal about how they could push updates out regardless of the phone and that ended up not being true. Not that it mattered with their glacial development cycles anyway.
5. Throwing money at the problem without understanding the problem. They bought Nokia's phone division while still charging other companies for the OS while owning a phone division that meant they could sell their own product for far less. That doesn't encourage competition, it kills it.
6. Probably the biggest single factor to me, and one that is rarely mentioned is how they treated early adopters like trash. They released a tiny phone OS on aged hardware in Windows Phone 7 which had no real upgrade path. To add future features like multitasking would mean an entire OS re-write that existing phones would not be compatible with. It'd be like Apple releasing an iPhone today and then releasing another next year that you couldn't upgrade your year-old phone to run. You need early adopters and most understand there will be issues but when the issue is "sorry, your phone is a dead-end product" less than a year after release it tends to work against you.
Very well reasoned. The sixth point was so true.
Add then the apps. Forget about getting the numerous fancy apps of android, WP lacked basic apps like a file processing app. They managed to develop one only in 2014/15 I believe. This made even sending files through bluetooth a difficult process as files received via bluetooth disappeared and the phone had to be connected to a pc to trace them.
Moreover, even the commonly used apps like facebook, twitter were substandard ones. There were no native google apps. Moreover the user interface of windows apps were not so lively like androids.
Then, there were no good notifications available for apps. The live tiles were not functional like widgets. WP should have atleast brought in the gadgets that was available in Windows 7 PC.
However, the one productive part of WP was Here Maps that allowed Maps to be downloaded and used offline. This was very much useful in places with low network reception.
@@sankalpmathews9380 The live tiles worked but at least on my phone but god notifications rarely came when they should have. It was a more easy OS it was more seamless in syncing with other apps when it worked,if it didn't man you were in trouble. Facebook and skype was completely integrated except for messenger. They messed it up. Every time microsoft updated the os they messed up because they never kept the good things from the previous version. Every good thing in every win os was balanced out by the things that were wrong. They never got it they never listened so they should burn in hell for that. I still use my Lumia 640xl on the side and i still like it,i miss it but not enough to give up functionality ,i've had enough.
@@TheLightMyFire I too loved the seamless syncing features. I really miss my Lumia 520. The live tiles I mentioned was that they were not 'interactive' (if I may take the liberty to use the term!). Of course they provided some notifications in live tiles but we couldn't scroll it like widgets in android. In Android, for example the gmail or outlook app allows widgets of inbox that can be used to scroll at all inbox mail headings without actually opening the app. Or a news app provides the widget to scroll through the important news without actually opening the app. But, in live tiles in Windows Phone, only one or two unread mail or news items appear. These may be small issues. But, these are features that make Android sweet as far as apps are concerned..
One of the better reasons y. But still missing the consumer factor and retailers
The sixth point is so valid
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Yeah, don't ask me why...
Was a great system... Loved it. But Whatsapp was crap, many apps didnt exist and snapchat was only unofficially supported (called 6snap) and you got banned for using it all the time on snapchat :/
Also, the dev got a cease a desist letter. He got revenge a few years ago with a great picture: twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/904466477746610176
Whatsapp is alright actually, but yeah you're right about the Snapchat thingy
I remember being very disappointed with my first android phone's performance. It was a super basic model like my Lumia 635, but ran extremely slow, didn't allow for storage of apps on an SD card and the camera app was terrible. The bootleg apps on the windows phone were jank, but if you never intended on using any of the popular apps, WP8 was a great little OS and cortana was suprisingly responsive. Microsoft does something right at the wrong time again.
Rudy Huyn was the reason I countinued to use a windows mobile devie till late 2017, all the app he made, they were amazing and well done they could replace the originals
InstaSound No, it wasn't alright, it was slow af, not only opening the app, but also the chats (I had a 950), and you can't reply using the notification.
Fun fact, i used my Nokia Windows phone until this month (yes,2018), but i had to buy a droid cuz it broke. I actually didn't mind using it, and it was a fine phone. Only downside was the battery.. but then again, i could replace it with a new one. Shocking i know.
I never was into the whole apps thing,i just wanted a video watching thing, music listening thing, phone calling thing and picture taking thingy. Windows phones were enough for me.
UNTIL I DISCOVERED HOW MUCH BETTER ANDROID WAS. I wish i did earlier, but then again, only now you can buy a truly great phone. The early phones and OS versions were laggy and a bit messy from what i have seen.
One answer: “Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers”
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Before this year, I used to have a Windows Phone for 3 YEARS...and I actually I realy liked it, but it lacked app support...
Yeah me too, even it's specs is like the ram is only 256 mb and the clock rate is only 0.78 ghz, i always feel that it's much fluid and faster than android.
Still using it after 2 and a half years, I agree that even with 1 gb of RAM and SD 200 it's run pretty smooth, but it's buggy even for some basic apps
Wow no offense but imagine jumping to iOS and Android after that. Must be like stepping out of a cave
I loved my Windows Phones and still think it had the best home screen of any mobile operating systems, besides hiding all games under the Xbox app (why they did that I will never know). Just a shame it was too late when it came out.
Me too. I miss my Windows Phone. :(
The new Andromeda phone coming out from Microsoft is going to run Windows 10 with a Snapdragon 850. It's going to have 2 screens and a pen
I still have a Windows Phone (Lumia 550), and I genuinely don't know what I'm going to do when it becomes completely unusable. I will be honest though, the whole Windows Phone experience was rather watered down over time. WP7 was a genuinely innovative (probably too innovative, actually) OS that took a completely new approach to mobile software, while WP8 and WP10 increasingly just started to copy what iOS and Android were doing, because that's what customers had got used to.
After a lot of trial and error I personally got my Windows Phone back, and it's powered by Android's versatility! First download Launcher 10; there's a 14 day trial version for the live tiles. Then download Daily Bing Wallpapers. Download Machapp transparent clock weather the best weather app IMO, with Windows Mobile like widgets. Download 3cats clock (not Windows like, but I like the seconds counter anyway). Download Custom Search Bar Widget. Download the New York Times app for the news widget. Download inoreader RSS reader for the news widget. Optionally download Curiosity for its widget. In Launcher 10 choose between the Windows Phone 8 and the 10 version. ColorNote is a useful widget as well that can blend with the tiles. Customize, customize, customize the tiles (size, transparency, color etc) and the widgets and add or remove whatever you want. Also if you have Oreo or later (that works at least for Samsung phones) go to your devices' Settings > Lock screen and security > Screen lock type to reset a new PIN. You should see the “Confirm PIN without tapping OK” option and remove the crappy OK confirmation tap like in the Windows Phones.
Windows Phone is still my most loved OS..... :(
they could have easily prevented this if win 10 mobile was a full featured variant of the base os, instead of the locked down garbage that's merely a restricted version of the base.
thats basically what they are doing now, just waiting for android and ios to fuck something up i bet
Cory Riesen At this point in time I don’t think either iOS and android are gonna fuck up, there’s a reason they’re the top 2 os in the world. They already built their solid fanbases so they’re not gonna do anything dumb anytime soon
I miss my Lumia!
I really miss phone Cortana!
Dude, just upgrade ur Lumia's OS into Android
Watching this from my Lumia 930 with a cracked Lumia 800 still in my dearest memories. I guess I'm involuntarily a hipster now. Great.
My first and second smartphones were Lumias and I really liked the OS tbh. Nowdays I have the new android Nokia 3 but with Launcher 10 installed, a launcher that imitates windows phone interface
Why Did Windows Phone Fail? Steve Ballmer.
But he also gave us Vista and Windows 8! Oh, I see your point.
Exactly
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cicci0salsicci0 Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella just gave up as they could have made Windows phone succeed with some marketing effort as sales of the Lumia line were not that bad.
don't even haver to play the video to simply say no apps
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Microsoft was the leader in smartphones only if you don't consider Symbian. In my min smartphone before 2008 was a phone that can view and edit documents, browse web and instal proper apps and Symbian did all that.
Windows phone was the best looking and engineered mobile OS I have seen in my life. Its too sad devs didn't jump on and Google got greedy.
I used to have a 925, it was great but I sadly switched to a 'waterproof' sony
Smoothest segue ever. Jon, you keep getting better and better (at the whole video, not just the segue)
I used a Microsoft Lumia 532 for about 2 years . It had Windows 8 or 8.1 I don't remember
For its specs . (Classic outdated snapdragon and 1 GB of ram) it was very good . Fast , snappy . And it never caved . It was pleasant for browsing and everything was good . There was a Microsoft program for everything on this phone . Plus the speaker was really good .
But... One day . Support for messenger was gone . Existence was pain after that . Everything started to become tougher . The store was empty . If there was support for Messenger I would buy a Windows Phone again . But since they lost that . I was done with Windows Phones and I was going to buy a new one . Then the charging port died . And I got a cheap Asus phone with the same specs . It's not even 1/2 of the performance and the speaker is mediocre at best . It's a shame ..
Umm hey support for Messenger is back
Lordofall Infinite Really ?? That's amazing ! The only problem is that I live in Greece . And Windows Phones are unavailable now ...
Office Chair I stll have 532 that I had been using for one year before 650. I didn't know that upgrade for W10M was possible until recently so I tried it just for the fun. It works through the app in the store.
Asus are really good android phones... except the "Zenfone Go" series, they low-end & suck.
Radu Alexandru I know that Asus is a great brand and I like them a lot . One of the reasons I went with it was that it was made by a company I trust because of great experience in the past . And I have a Zenfone Go , it really does suck but atleast it's better than other low end models by other companies . Even a tiny 1GB of Ram can be enough if you what apps need to get uninstalled .
My Lumia 920 is still working at this moment. Great phone but shortage of apps.
yeah I have same problem with my lumia many apps non existent on it which is sad...windows OS could be succesful.
My current device still is the Lumia 925 since 2015 (came out 2013 with a gorgeous AMOLED when almost every other company offered LCDs). But what about the next phone I eventually have to choose? Windows Phone is dead, there's no denying in that, and I don't want a much bigger phone... I'm looking into the Sony Compact models or at the Iphone SE.
@@samblack3446 I loved wp and eventually was forced to move to android. I chose a sony xperia x compact and I like it okay. Microsoft does offer a launcher for android phones but I'm not really sure I like it.
liked to see someone other than Linus
you can make a little series for tiny history/documentation bits for technologies n companies like this one
0:29 I still have a phone that my dad used running that AND IT STILL WORKS LOL
I had a Widows Phone and it was everything great except for the apps availability, I remember wanting to install certain games I not finding them only finding cheap copys
Ah yes, the Widows Phone.....Exclusively available for mourning spouses
Microsoft have pretty much sabotaged every mobile operating system they have ever made by not properly supporting their mobile products with quality and plentiful apps :(
Fridgemusa Yes, because they should automatically be able to convince every app developer ever to develop apps that work on the windows phone. Not happening.
Apps come from third party sources, not Microsoft. Despite that, they bent over backwards funding and supporting those third party developers.
As a rough estimate Microsoft generates about 70 billion in revenue 30 billion of which is profit and they probably been doing that for a decade or so. If they wanted to success they could have just spent the money and got it. They just DGAF.
No, it wasn't apps. They betrayed developers, that's what happened. They didn't allow developers to code simplest things, like sending and receiving SMS. So things like Cortana were not possible on Windows Phone until Microsoft allowed their app to use features not allowed to other developers. At the moment when Cortana was released, every Windows Phone developer who had any brain, already switched. When Microsoft relaxed their policies, it was too late.
In other words - the problem was in people. Microsoft people.
Dmitry Kirsanov To be fair, most of that was for security reasons - which was honestly my favorite thing about Windows Phone. Everyone talks about how BlackBerry has awesome security, meanwhile nobody mentions the actually superior security of Windows Phone (the integrated sandbox feature was seriously brilliant). But understandably focus on security always has its cons, like limiting which parts of the system developers can interact with. And it turns out most people care much more about their user experience than about security - Android is literally built around this idea, and even Apple eventually cave in and made iOS more open to developers, for better or worse...
Microsoft made a series of idiotic decisions that killed an otherwise amazing system. If they had invested money into getting native support from Google etc. instead of foolishly buying Nokia, I would still be able to use my Lumia...
Hey, the Flip video recorder is great. They can be had for cheap on eBay, they use AA batteries in case the rechargeable one fails to work, and the quality is pretty good. I use them to provide additional camera angles at events and sports events.
man i remember having the first windows phone the kin so awesome :D would sit right next to my windows mp3 device the zune
windows phone initially had a lot of developer support and phone makers interested, but Microsoft decided to be a jackass thinking they could get away with OS updates which left early adopters hanging and ruined app support all so it could mix it with desktop windows
I disagree. The cross-platform compatibility thing only really started to plague WP10. I got on the Windows Phone bandwagon very early, and actually bought a Samsung Omnia 7 before it was officially available in this country, and as such, I can tell you that WP7 was a completely different experience app-wise. What little apps there were worked incredibly well and looked great, but developers probably weren't too keen on Microsoft restricting UI elements to those that were consistent with the OS' own UI, and forcing app developers to rewrite their entire apps in Silverlight probably didn't make them plenty of friends either.
I still think that WP7 is the finest mobile OS I've ever experienced outside of third-party apps; it was incredibly well thought out and streamlined, and was genuinely innovative compared to iOS and Android at the time (and even today, to an extent). I've currently got a WP10 phone that I'm altogether less happy with, largely because WP10 just feels like it's had all the innovation of WP7 sucked out of it to become a fairly generic mobile OS that differs only from iOS and Android in having a Metro-style UI (which is still great, by the way).
Robert Faber they really shouldn't have been taking 30% of developers sales when trying to play catch up.
Microsoft literally destroyed Nokia
Sualeh Irfan all hope is not lost, HMD are actually doing a good job.
Nokia's responsible for that, more than Microsoft actually..
Nokia was down before Microsoft bought it
And Nokia is back. I'm a Nokia Android phone user here.
Darrien Russele Angeles y Tabuzo same here, maybe the terrible deal Nokia made with Microsoft was what allowed HDM executives to realise people are fond of the Nokia brand, but preferred the Android OS over the failing Windows Phone. Also, they were clever enough to offer something few companies offer, even less in the low and mid range spectrum, which is vanilla Android with no bloatware and updates released on time.
The TH-cam "app" just added a shortcut from the home screen to the browser.
I loved windows phone from the beginning till the end with the hp elite x3 being my last before I upgraded to a Galaxy note 8. To say I was disappointed is a great understatement.
But I just found out about a launcher called Launcher 10 which mimics the windows 10 mobile UI so incredibly close. It is even better than W10M cause of the extra customizability of android.
Any ex windows phone users/lovers I highly recommend getting this launcher. It feels like I never left my favorite ecosystem.
Wp8 launcher provides more customisation than the launcher you are using. You can make many colour themes and save it to change later. I am using it on nokia's android phone. Loved it.
Quick Answer: App Support
Also quick answer: Steve Ballmer
Say what you will about LTT, but at least they figured out that Windows CE/Mobile existed and didn't parrot the "late to market" nonsense that has essentially become a meme.
It's hard to believe the Nokia buyout was in 2014. Feels like it's been far longer.
Earlier. Lumia 800 came in 2011.
That was a Nokia Lumia. In 2014, when the buyout happened, the phones were only named Microsoft Lumia.
Before that, Nokia was partnering with Microsoft already, so it was making phones for MS under its Nokia brand. That was already when it it became clear that Microsoft will probably buy it. I was one of those that bought the first Lumia 800s - I was riding that hype train.
lmao that username!! XD
But windows phone os was very late to the market. Just took too long for a reboot of their old os.
i use a lumia for playing music because is has a virtual surround feature audio
Those flip cameras were lit
My windows phone had arguably the best selfie camera on a phone at the time but not Instagram or things like that to post said selfies. It was really good for managing organizations Exchange, outlook, Office 365 etc.
Daniel Lopez I actually miss windows phone, I honest to God believe that the Lumia 920 was the Best phone experience I've had,
Yes, the Office 365 integration is bloody amazing... Can't say the camera on my Lumia 550 is any good (it was better on my old Omnia 7), but other than that, I am still very happy with it, and I won't be walking away from Windows Phone until it becomes completely unusable.
Did you have the Lumia 730?
"Technically" the 735 of the 730 variant but yes.
*FLIP CAMERAS ARE LIT AND I WILL DEFEND THEM TO THE DEATH!!!*
They suck.
For the time they were cool, but 720p is kind of sad... Also I know the idea behind it was to be so simple anyone could use it, but I find myself wishing the flip had even just a couple more basic adjustments and features. If a modern iteration came out that shot 1080p it would actually be awesome. 4K is a little out of the question, but I don't really need it.
You're doing the Lord's work
Actually my wife still keeps asking me about what happened to flip. "Cisco baby, cisco happened". Then she has a look like she would set fire to a data center. Keep up the good fight.
Theirs or yours?
Last time I checked Google services license (Play store, gmail & the rest) wasn't free for phone manufacturers.
I tries one but got rid of it the same week the menu was complicated, chaotic and disorgenised it took ages to find a sertain program
Same thing can be said about Blackberry - failed to innovate and stay relevant
Indeed. Their biggest fail was to not take Apple seriously, then get in the game way too late when there were already two dominant players.
They no longer design their own phones or the OS on them. They're pretty much an Android OEM now who use a whitelabel company and stick their brand on it. It's quite a fall from grace.
i have a 5 years old microsoft lumia 535😥😥😥😥😥😥
Developers! Developers! Developers! - LOLOLOL
This is what I imagine it is like when you hand an intern Linus's script and hold a gun to his head
I had a Windows phone. I was both disappointed and satisfied at the same time. I was satisfied because the phone was really well compatible with the file explorer on the PC, i also liked the start menu. The bad side is that it doesn't have that many apps like on Android.
I wanted to believe in Windows Phone, but alas...
..yes..
Concise, on-point, clear and fast !! Amazingly made !! Thank you
I’ve got one and I use it evey day. I realised it was a bad phone when it asked me to review the phone app and adverts where download so ads would always play. Everything crashes but I can’t get a new phone so...
Windows Phone was great. It failed because lack of developer support.
Sonny A. Right
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The lack of developer support was a result of lack of support from microsoft to the platform as a whole. Basically microsoft sucks at marketing that why windows phone failed and thats why xbox isnt doing so well this generation
I liked as OS too, but app development was bad.
NO it fail because satya nadela and dona sarkar killed it
I'm still using the Lumia 950 on windows phone 10… lol
I really like Jon in these videos, Always nice to see him progressing within LMG
Me and my mum bought our windows phones last year and they stopped working a month ago almost in the same week .I missed it a lot😣😣😣
I don't know how it all happened! I had Nokia Lumia 925 in 2014 and it was a better phone than many devices I owned later. Windows was better in many areas in 2014 than Android is now. Obviously there were some shortcomings, but I would still love to have a windows phone over am Android. I moved to Android only because after 925 there wasn't any other windows phone. Sure there was 930, but I never felt upgrading my 925 to 930. And it all ended then and there. I am not as satisfied with Android as I was with Nokia Lumia, when with all these apps and customisation. Windows was the right solution for me, except for a few apps which never bothered me that much.
Windows mail app was as good as Gmail app, if not better, TH-cam didn't have any ads, Facebook had the best integration with the entire phone, WhatsApp was way smoother, Nokia music was the best music player and I could download thousands of songs for free which went DRM protected.
How the hell am I using an Android phone? I never felt the same level of sophistication and ease on Android as I felt on windows. Really a tragedy.
This is so correct. if I could only give this a million thumbs up. I still use my Win phone -not ready to live without it yet, M considering getting a Surface Go or Chuwi Hi 10 Air by November this year so I don't miss my phone too much when i finally drop it sometime next year. I just know m not that much of an android phone person as i have always had both phones n always infinitely preferred my windows phone. As for iphone, i've never liked them as much as windows either.
how you didnt mention the role of samsung in windows phone? when microsoft adquierd nokia, samsung got really angry at the point they didnt want to meet people from microsoft anymore. that was an important factor that made microsoft sell nokia again. (read that in the Satya Nadella's book)
damn
No, Sammy was already pissed off when window mobile phone were abandon by Microsoft in 2010. Even the Omnia 2 had a best specs.
how can i remove windows os and put android or linux in windows phone??
I miss my old lumia 635, still use it occasion as a backup phone and it's rly fast for it's specs
I can't quite hear clearly for his accent.
No Devs = no apps = bare functionality
Ahcktually, Microsoft not helping devs enough = No devs = Not enough apps = No popularity
What is your resourcea for the desktop OS share?!
My Dad is still currently using a RM 1109.
Its great for him because he isn't keen to learning how to use and manage a regular phone OS, so the simple UI makes it easy to understand for him.
*My first phone was a Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 610.*
*I loved the design of the OS; I arranged my tiles in the shape of a robot. I remember showing people at school and they were impressed by it.*
*I wish Windows phone came back because that tile screen was really unique and cool to look at.*
I wish we had a better choice other than Apple and Android. I’m sick of all the shady stuff.
Microsoft today is shady as Google and Apple.
You still have Tizen, SailfishOS and you can install PostmarketOS on your Android phone as well.
Wayne Willis The best phone I ever used was a Lumia 950. Now I'm stuck with an iPhone X because I hate Google with a passion.
Karras Bastomi not as bad though. Microsoft has to appeal to businesses mostly while Apple and Google focus on consumer grade thus having to appeal to the PC crowd.
0:40 That was my phone back then, the T-Mobile Wing (or HTC Herald if you got it from other carriers). Funny thing is, when you whipped one of these out back then, some people use to give you crap like "oh look, Mr. Business needs to set up a meeting for the First National board of investors",,,,,,,,,,,,, when all you were doing is adding "2% milk" to your shopping list. Ohhhh, but now, just try and take away a kid's smartphone in class (family member is a teacher), they will physically fight you !
the windows phone also lacked in battery power my dad owned one and after a year of owning he went from replacing his battery from 5-7 months within a year to basicly every month
I just got ad about strawberry scented credit cards before this video
I used to have one it's because they had the crappiest performance among their pears and the smallest app selection not having many of the more popular apps... including youtube I think, if I remember correctly you had to basically just get a link and run it on the inbuilt browser, basically they were hot pieces of garbage all around... the GUI for app placement was pretty dope though, that I liked
Agreed. I had one for 2 years and hated it. I damn near took a hammer to it out of frustration more than once. By the time I finally got rid of it, almost none of the apps installed were functional. I upgraded to a Samsung and haven't looked back.
Would love to hear what the model was and Ms made several attempts to make a TH-cam both shut down by Google
Hey! The flip hd was amazing!
Why wasn't symbian listed as part of the pre 2007 smart phone OS?
0:50 Why Symbian isn't on that chart? It definitely was one of the most popular smartphone operating systems at the time.
Wasn't very smart
Windows Phone failed because it met a nokia in the street and decided to pick a fight.
Kyle Li made me smile, thank you for that.
That doesn't make any sense. Windows Phone OS was on Nokia phones.
So it met itself on the street?
Should be more like they brought an old and frail has been irrelevant gang leader to a gang fight thinking that this leader is still influential...
That's what happened with Nokia! Microsoft failed because they suck
Because you cannot play minesweeper.
Windows Mobile (the old one before the iPhone) is very business oriented when it comes to features and capabilities and it's UI relies on a stylus.
I know. I used and own 3 devices like these with one still working fine today.
I owned a Nokia Windows Phone for 2014-16, it did indeed have little device support, especially compared to my iPad which I also had at the time.
Nokia was fine before Win Mobile :( The N900 even had Linux and it was great.
Nokia: Reputation for being indestructable.
Microsoft: *Hold my OS.*
hey ..please reply..
I wanna buy a laptop under 900$..
I wanna do photoshop and video editing...music produce... and a little bit of gaming...
I just want to know witch (cpu+gpu) is better for video editing and music produce....
i5 8th gen+ 1050ti 4gb
or
i7 8th gen+ 1050 2gb...
and my choices are dell g5 and HP omen thin bazel...
1050ti one is dell
1050 2gb one is omen...
witch one is better???
please reply..
#in a video I saw the hp omen's cpu(i7) hitting 92/95 degree cel.. while gaming...and its almost always like this while gaming...92/95 degree.. is that too bad???
please reply...
I had a Lumia 640XL and 950XL before moving back to Android. They had great features like iris scanning on 950XL, but the app gap ultimately killed the platform. Third-party app alternatives were available, but the support itself was unreliable. 😔
Give me phone with a full version of win 10 plz
That's what windows phone 8 should en been. One Operating system for pc tablet and phone. Plug a monitor into your phone. Bleu tooth keyboard and mouse. And you could use IT Just like a desktop. Windows meededen something special with Windows 7 8 nut it did not deliver.
not making any since putting pc photoshop and assassin creed in a phone cant imagine loving pc get a pc / phone is a phone
nice_q8t Yeah i dont think that assasins creed could run. I think no desktop programm would work on this because it uses a ARM based CPU, not x86.
GPD Win 2? Not quite a phone, but definitely mobile Windows 10.
LTT did a review of the GPD Win iirc.
the same thing, bigger, with an i5 and a gtx 680 and 8 go ddr4 with the ability to call and send message. i will be happy with that ^^
That's a simple question. It failed because people could see through it.
When windows phones stop getting supported will you still be able to use them or at least use them as a phone
0:31 Was it? Or was it number 2 behind Symbian?
Still using a Lumia 640 XL LTE, great phone!
QuinSoft Netherlands stable and quick os
I'm using a Lumia 550, and I'm generally happy with it as well, though I still miss my old Omnia 7 sometimes; WP7 was in many ways a much better OS than WP10.
I'm still using a Lumia 830. I do like it, but it is starting to show it's age
same here . still using mu 640xl , but its showing its age . like dying slowly . :(
Haha old man
Is it me or does he always talk through his nose? ^^
I liked the live tiles, basic info of the app at a glance. I should check if android has something similar.
Truth be told, my phone still impress friends and colleagues from time to time, there's nothing like plugin your phone with Continuum and start using Office, just like that. I was a bit angry when i heard they killed it, 3rd party support was either inexistant or straight up bad, but the phone itself was self-sufficient for work related stuff.
What about Symbian?
that's Linux not a windows hybrid OS. Symbian was killed off by Nokia and then Microsoft when they stopped making feature phones like the Nokia 108
symbian used to be android of that time / but ones apple make iphone and google just buy android newer compute and usage just make older phone obsolete
They need a TechQuickie for it
Symbian sucks balls. Doesn't matter if it was S40 or S60, both were crap.
S40 wasn't Symbian.
I still have a Windows Phone (Lumia 640), and my next phone will be still a WP, even if it's unsupported (Lumia 940/950 or Alcatel Idol 4S maybe). I'm never going to touch Android again, neither iPhone. I wish I would have more choices...
Hey I still love my flip camera!
One reason we forgot is how annoying were these phones to set up with a Microsoft account - if you wanted access to the store. It was horrible, just simply setting a new Microsoft account is a chore to start with. Imagine now an older person trying this
non-tech business analyst will never know this.
do you know that windows mobile OS had more market cap than iOS in china, italy, U.K and some other countries back then ?
do you know that windows mobile has the first maps that is able to navigate you offline in smartphone industry ?
admit it, windows mobile was also supporting your update waaay better than android back in the day.
if you still have windows mobile, open your phone, you can still find your most important apps there, like uber.
microsoft did not ruin nokia. Nokia already fell on its own knees for its own stubbornness. (check ColdFusion take on Nokia)
Microsoft reinvented Nokia, they were actually pretty successful.
if Microsoft can keep the lower than competition Bing's market cap and profit, no one has any idea why Microsoft just dumped Windows mobile while it could be the 3rd or even 2nd most popular mobile OS.
dad had and still has an nokia windows phone (i'll get him a proper one this winter).
but we had a lot of troubles with it. From something as simple as email to something as complicated as having an app for google translate.
while i could just take a picture and translate it, he couldn't on this phone.
And that's kind of important because at his job, the losers in charge keep buying stuff with manual only in english, german and chinese, and guess what, not everyone knows that.
he often used to bring manuals home and had me try to translate them, but even i had problems due to having many technical terms.
The truth about windows phones is that they lacked in the app department. Maybe it was developers, maybe it was google and apple sabotaging them, who knows. But the access to basic apps or good browsers was quite limited.
Like, how many people do you know that use internet explorer???????????
Right, but that's the browser on the windows phone.
Also had a big hassle with having to create a microsoft account, which i eventually gave up on.
They bought Nokia, failed.
...but what about surface? How about a Surface Phone? Hmm? HMM?
because surface targeted premium user. it will sucess but in small scale. Microsoft too confident when launch window 8 and window 8.1 . the fact is microsot USELESS without OEM partner ( Acer HP Dell ASUS Lenovo )
I still have a Windows Phone as a spare for when I eventually drop my iPhone on my desk a little too hard. My Lumia 650 has fallen off a 6 foot ladder onto concrete and didn't even show the impact mark. It did chip the floor though. I keep my Lumia 650 it in a draw next to my Zune for company.
I use a Nokia Lumia 1020 to this day , just for photos the rest is so annoying to do
I had a windows phone lol
I still have one...
me too. i wanted to believe in it. but, it was pretty shitty but very durable lol. i tossed it around until it broke
freezEware when i had mine, i think it bugged out, because i deleted kik, but couldn't acess the app store to redownload it. It would always show an error
yeah man... app support really killed it for me
Reasons to bring back Windows phone:
-Windows App Store has lotsa old Roms (like from N64, Gameboy etc) than can directly be played without extra emulator
He looks like kraglin obfonteri an assistant of yondu from Guardians of the Galaxy
Still used for the commercial side, the bluebirds at work run windows.
Dudes voice kills me.
rude
I have a Windows phone I love it. it has the best home screen ever on a smart phone and it doesn't hang or lag at all like Android phones
Pay for Windows on your home computer. '' Slightly nervous laughter". Can't remember last time I did that. Microsoft please don't break my legs
A R T I C U L A T E.....Seriously 1:23 "which phone owedah mishmash." I think you were looking for "out of that"