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Microsoft Killing Off Nokia's Windows Phone Apps

Posted by Soulskill on from the buyer's-remorse dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Circling the drain by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Windows 7 and 8 you can actually prevent the functionality from being installed by blocking the "updates". In Windows 10 you cannot do that, and you can't turn it all the way off.

    If it weren't for that, I would have upgraded to Win10 already

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  2. Re:Well, duh! It's all about patents by teg · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft bought Nokia for their patents. Any other money is just chump change.

    The patents were not included in the deal. Microsoft didn't actually buy Nokia, they bought Nokia's handset business. The patents remained with Nokia.

  3. Re:Amazingly bad management by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  4. Re:What a waste by m4rtink · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nokia had the best hardware in the world but a terrible outdated OS. Then Microsoft came and killed the best hardware and replaced the OS with an even worse one.

    Depends on what OS you mean - if Symbian then you are right, but Maemo/MeeGo/Harmattan were far ahead of their time.