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Microsoft holding a “funeral” for the iPhone after launching the Windows Phone 7 (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Such a shame. Windows phones were actually really good and the developer experience was pretty awesome.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

And after a while, they would've turned to shit as well.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They just had one massive problem: no apps

[–] Dagamant 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had one too, I really liked it. Only problems I ran into were things like credit card readers not working because the apps didn’t have the same access to hardware that they had on other devices. Otherwise I definitely preferred it over android.

[–] jaybone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don’t you usually have external hardware for credit card readers anyway?

[–] Dagamant 1 points 4 months ago

Now days yeah but back then the only cheap option were the ones that plugged into the headphone jack. So the software needed to be able to access the mic line from the headphone jack and it couldn’t do that on windows phone.

[–] Pacmanlives 9 points 4 months ago

I actually really liked them. I was super excited to see what they would do with it once they bought Nokia to have that tight hardware control like iPhone/Pixel. Just a little bit head of its time in certain ways