Re:Android Killed Windows Phone, Not Apple
by digi_owl on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:14PM
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> - Microsoft didn't care about mobile, thinking Windows CE was fine (they had ~42% marketshare in 2007)
This was perhaps the big one. The CE/PocketPC lineage had been going since the 90s, but Phone 7 was a sharp break with that.
Thus existing users knew they were hosed, and so no longer had a reason to be loyal to MS.
It is weird seeing MS forgo their biggest trump card in this way. Their continued grip on a market has been thanks to backwards compatibility. Yet they squandered that on mobile, and seems poised to squander it on desktop as well.
This was perhaps the big one. The CE/PocketPC lineage had been going since the 90s, but Phone 7 was a sharp break with that.
Thus existing users knew they were hosed, and so no longer had a reason to be loyal to MS.
It is weird seeing MS forgo their biggest trump card in this way. Their continued grip on a market has been thanks to backwards compatibility. Yet they squandered that on mobile, and seems poised to squander it on desktop as well.