I miss Windows Phone

Re:I miss Windows Phone by golfer on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:41PM (#16782093)

Your $30 phone likely cost far more to build, perhaps hundreds. You bought it at a huge discount probably, since you said it was after the platform was dead.

Therefore, this statement doesn't make sense to me:

"For a $30 phone, it was incredibly fast and smooth."

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Re:I miss Windows Phone by maxsilver on Saturday April 07, 2018 @03:10PM (#16782243)

> Your $30 phone likely cost far more to build, perhaps hundreds

When the platform was still new and well supported, and without any discounts or contracts, you could get Windows Phones at the ~$100 USD price that were every bit as fast and fluid as described. Phones like the Lumia 520 / 530 / 535 series.

So, if the discounted price bothers you, just read it as "For a $100 phone", as that was the brand-new day-one price at the time, with no subsidies / discounts / contract / credit-checks / loss write-off / etc.

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Re:I miss Windows Phone by ams6110 on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:22PM (#16783842)

Are you sure it wasn't sold at a loss even then, just to try to establish market share?

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