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Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com)
From a report: Microsoft is killing off Windows Phone 8.1 support today, more than three years after the company first introduced the update. The end of support marks an end to the Windows Phone era, and the millions of devices still running the operating system. While most have accepted that the death of Windows Phone occurred more than a year ago, AdDuplex estimates that nearly 80 percent of all Windows-powered phones are still running Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, or Windows Phone 8.1. All of these handsets are now officially unsupported, and only 20 percent of all Windows phones are running the latest Windows 10 Mobile OS.
it never took off.
A monopoly on both desktop and mobile would not be a good thing for consumers.
My friend works at a Sprint store. They have a Windows phone in the back room. Everyone asks for the iPhone or whatever Android phone is sale. They never ask for the Windows phone.
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That's how dead the windows phone platform is
I was working for Nokia Mobile Phones when MS took it over. A week before the deal was complete, MS said that everyone would be kept on. Two weeks after the deal was complete, they laid off 20,000 of us! Yeah. MS is a predator! We were a division of Nokia that was serving over 100 million customers world-wide...
Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real-time.
The only place where everybody had a Windows phone was on the TV show 'Under the Dome'.
And even there they couldn't get any service.
My coworker has a new Windows phone. He likes it. If you don't need a million apps then it's not a bad product. The UI I think is pretty nice; what fails on the desktop works on the phone.
However, it's not dead because even the summary says there's a still Windows 10 phone. All that died was the previous version. That in itself should be the story, the Microsoft is accelerating the planned obsolescence in their rush to emulate Apple. But it's not dead. I know it's a Slashdot meme to declare things dead at the first sign of sniffles, but sheesh...
Competition is good, however it's not worth picking an inferior choice just for the sake of competition, the competition needs to be able to compete on it's own merits.
To be blunt, Despite the massive marketing push by MS that put these at the forefront of every carrier's store, discounted them to effectively free, and pushed them on every TV show and movie, nobody was willing to put up with Windows Phone.
I also don't use Firefox because it isn't the best choice. I do however use Linux on the desktop, because it's better than the alternatives.
The success of failure of a product is the responsibility of those developing the product, not of the consumers. It is not our obligation to adopt a product that we don't want just to support the concept of competition.
does not mean what you think it means.
Meanwhile, Darl McBride, the owner of the intellectual property rights to the Windows Phonery, has announced that the Windows Phone is "not quite dead yet", and "thinks he'll take the Windows Phone out for a walk."
Owners of iPhones and Android phones will still be able to use their devices, provided they pay the Elusive Useless Litigation Acquiescence of $1,399 to cover the iPhone and Android infringement on the Windows Phone technology. McBride plans to use the influx of funds to finance yet even more litigation.
However, rumors persist that the briefcase full of cash carried by Bill Gates' younger brother, Fredo, never made it to the Cayman Islands. John McAffee has publicly suggested that whole SCO operation, otherwise known as, "The Other, Other, Operation" was privately funded by Bill Gates through a Ho Chi Mihn Trail of Intelligent Africanized Bee Toilets, but McAffee was wiggin' on "Fringe" potency psychotropic drugs at the time.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Headline does not match summary. Windows Phones running 8.x are now unsupported, but Windows Phones running 10.x are still around and supported. Headline should be "Windows Phone OS 8.x unsupported as of today"
Twinstiq, game news
Yup, a good calculator by default would be great for Android.