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Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools by TeMPOraL on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:55AM (#17236501)
I wish that too. Especially that their UX ideas were good, and their tablets show capacity of doing better than both Apple and Google.

Alas, I feel the mistake they made was releasing an MVP of a phone OS, instead of hitting feature parity with Android (or at least iOS) of the era. Phones have quite a big switching cost - if you make a mistake and are not super wealthy, you may need to live with it for the next year, or more. By releasing and aggressively pushing a subpar product, Microsoft completely obliterated the trust in their mobile brand.

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Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:23AM (#17236644)
Was feature parity really in Microsoft's hands? One of the main features people want is app availability after all.

I think Windows needs to run Android apps like Chrome OS does. Then they will eventually be able to run on phones once again.

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Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools by TeMPOraL on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:53AM (#17238849)
Right. That was a problem as well. But what I remember the most from the experience with early Windows phones is the lack of many OS-level features and configuration options I came to expect from Android.
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