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Microsoft Killing Off Nokia's Windows Phone Apps
jfruh writes: As Nokia's smartphone division becomes more fully absorbed into Microsoft, the company is cleaning house and ending some apps and services that Nokia had developed specifically for Windows Phone. Lumia Storyteller, Lumia Beamer, Photobeamer, and Lumia Refocus are photo and video apps that integrate with online services, and those services will be shutting down on October 30. Microsoft says its to better commit resources to work on the mobile version of Windows 10, which is coming soon, but not all the features of the canceled services will appear in the new OS.
In general, this is what I hate about the mobile ecosystem. Everything is so tenuous and could be gone tomorrow. For some things it makes sense (e.g. a chat service), and for some things it would become useless over time (a mapping/navigation application would devolve as roads change and would be less compelling wthout traffic data) and then there are things that make zero sense to be bound by the ongoing presence of servers (a lot of single player games will keel over when one of a set of companies hangs it up). We have moved so far into not having control of our favorite software it's depressing.