Re:Android Killed Windows Phone, Not Apple
by Nursie on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:12AM
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I watched the tech news about Windows Phone over the years it was released as 7 and 8.
The paid-for hype was obvious and hollow. Commentators sprung up in tech-related forums everywhere, singing the praises of the development experience of WP 7 with personal testimony of how awesome it was, months before it was available to developers. Then scarcely a year later, when it was clear that WP7 was not setting the world on fire, exactly the same obvious, transparent marketing hype started being produced for WP8. When challenged about this, it was declaimed that WP7 had only ever been meant as a transition phase, and 8 was where it was really the future!
The paid-for hype was obvious and hollow. Commentators sprung up in tech-related forums everywhere, singing the praises of the development experience of WP 7 with personal testimony of how awesome it was, months before it was available to developers. Then scarcely a year later, when it was clear that WP7 was not setting the world on fire, exactly the same obvious, transparent marketing hype started being produced for WP8. When challenged about this, it was declaimed that WP7 had only ever been meant as a transition phase, and 8 was where it was really the future!
It was so blatant, and so pointless.