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That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit (www.theregister.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless

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[–] Ugurcan 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, visually there are alternatives on Android, but there were a few features built into WP that Android doesn’t fundamentally support that made the whole difference.

Like having your SO’s all accounts merged under a single node, and seeing everything related to her, be it from WhatsApp, Mail, SMS, Photo Shares etc inside a single tile was awesome. Can Android do that in 2024?

[–] Evilcoleslaw 5 points 7 months ago

HTC had Blinkfeed for a while which was kind of similar to People Hub. It probably wouldn't even be feasible these days as so many services have put their APIs behind paywalls.