Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile

Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by pmontra on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:02PM (#15435533)

> We have tried VERY HARD to incent app devs. Paid money.. wrote apps 4 them.. but volume of users is too low for most companies to invest.

The problem is that no customer I knew was keen to have to pay for the same app three times. Android and iOS cost enough money. Windows Mobile only choice would be to overcome one of those two platforms quickly, but it started the race way too late. Everybody was hoping it died quickly. A market split evenly in 3 would be a budget nightmare.

However let me say that only one platform would be unhealthy. Nothing good comes from mono cultures, as IE demonstrated after winning the browser wars some 15 years ago.

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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by r00fus on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:08PM (#15435583)

Hey, PalmOS was there early and with a decent UI. But the hardware was not up to the task.

It's really a pity that no one interested in mobile picked up Palm. HP - what did they do with it other than throw it away?

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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by 201709User on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:09PM (#15435595)

HP did a cheap tablet give away :P.

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