Windows 10 Mobile Needs To Be Put Out of Its Misery (betanews.com)

From a column on BetaNews: It's time for Microsoft to pull the plug. Windows 10 Mobile has been on life support for a long time, and the software giant is only making things worse by not giving it the mercy killing it deserves. It may sound harsh, but there's no future for Windows on smartphones in its current state. Microsoft wants to keep the door open to future developments but, let's face it, when it decided to sell Samsung's new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ through its stores it basically sealed its own platform's fate. There is no turning back from this. We know it and its fans know it too. [...] Really, the only reason I can see Microsoft developing Windows 10 Mobile -- or Windows on smartphones -- further is to give its fans the illusion that something could happen. One day. Someday. Eventually. Maybe. Hopefully. If all the stars align. And Apple and Google and all the other successful vendors are wiped out from the face of the Earth. Hey, it could happen!

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Re:Such insight!

[drinkypoo]

Not being a CEO of one of the largest, most successful companies in the history of the world, I'm not really one to say if it makes sense for them to keep working on it or not.

Your logical fallacy is the appeal to authority.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Mr. Bamburic might not have the perspective, knowledge, or experience to make these kinds of suggestions either.

Any monkey can see that Windows Phone is just making Microsoft look more pathetic, and costing them money in the process. They have literally no chance to threaten Apple, let alone Google. Samsung has a better shot, and they've already failed. Twice. But Microsoft has been failing almost continually in this market, and the only time they haven't been failing is when they didn't have any offerings. By all means, please tell us why you think it's useful for them to retain the division. And nobody is interested in you weaseling out of it by claiming your own lack of competence; if you're not competent to offer a suggestion, as you say (with which I agree) you're also not competent to critique the suggestions of others.

Of course, you do think that you are that competent, and you're just using a bullshit tactic to try to make yourself seem humble. False humility will impress no one, least of all on Slashdot.