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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by TFNA on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:37PM (#48895175)
Today the vast majority of people I know rarely use the browser on their phones. They interact with the internet through apps from various walled gardens, and even for news on the open web they are likely to install someone's app. Windows wouldn't have stood a chance if app development became so quickly an iOS/Android duoply.

Same goes for Nokia's Maemo and Meego. We nerds loved those OSs for being full-blown computer OSs, but the general public doesn't want a full-blown OS, they want a bunch of icons to corporate apps.

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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by afavour on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:40PM (#48895232)
> Windows wouldn't have stood a chance if app development became so quickly an iOS/Android duoply.

That was always the problem. But IMO Microsoft were probably the company best placed to compete there, given the existing developer mindshare they had. But they just messed it up, over and over. Incredibly to look back on, really.

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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by rbanffy on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:29PM (#48899778)
Their Windows CE developer mindshare didn’t make the translation to post iPhone software. There was so little in common between the two worlds one would need to start from scratch.
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