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Re:Windows Phone is dead by wvenable on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:33PM (#10996763)
Microsoft, however, is almost entirely to blame for the lack of apps. They hit the reset button on their platform more times than I can count. They bungled the app store itself. They threw money indiscriminately at developers and filled their store with crap. They could have been the one company that really cares about their store experience but instead they made it worse than all the others.
Re:Windows Phone is dead by dragontamer on Friday January 29, 2016 @05:03PM (#10998868)
7 and 8 were an utter disaster from the mobile front.

They're doing everything correct with 10. Sideloading is possible for free now. Universal apps are truly universal (XAML / C++ compiles into ARM, x86, and x64 simultaneously. C# and Javascript apps run on a VM).

They needed to hit that reset button for 10. It was a mistake to hit the reset button on 7 and 8 however.