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Microsoft Exec Says Windows 10 Mobile is No Longer a 'Focus' (engadget.com)
From a report: Microsoft's Joe Belfiore informed Twitter users that new features and hardware for Windows 10 Mobile "aren't the focus" any more. There will be fixes and security patches, of course, but you shouldn't expect more than that. As for why the platform has been all but dropped? The executive boils it down to one main reason: the difficulty of getting developers to write apps. Microsoft tried paying companies to produce apps and even wrote them itself when creators couldn't or wouldn't get involved, but the number of users was "too low for most companies to invest." Why build an app for a relatively small bunch of Windows phone owners when there are many more Android and iOS users? Belfiore himself switched to Android for the "app/[hardware] diversity." It's a bit more complicated than that, of course. You can point to a few other factors in Windows' fate on phones, such as slowness in responding to Apple and Google as well as an inconsistent hardware strategy (you could rarely count on getting a timely sequel to a handset you liked). Whatever the reason, it's safe to say that Microsoft isn't just acknowledging that Android and iOS hold a clear lead -- it's quashing any hopes for a comeback, at least for the foreseeable future.
words of Nelson Muntz come to mind...
There's a Windows 10 Mobile? So is that targeted for the 4 people that still use Windows Mobile?
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
No longer focusing on something you've already been ignoring. This man gets paid too much money.
I'd love it if Microsoft would release an affordable mid-range Android phone much like what Google's Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 were like
The price point should be around $300 to $400, at the most, like the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 were.
Keep the physical size of the phone reasonable. Somewhere between that of the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 would be ideal.
There's no need to go overboard with the hardware. Give us the most bang for the buck, even if this means using slightly older or slower hardware.
Put some emphasis on reliability and durability. We don't want to have to get a new phone every year because the old one fell apart from routine wear-and-tear.
Don't waste too much effort customizing Android. Just make sure that there are frequent updates, that they're easy to install, and that updates are provided for at least 4 years after the phone has been released.
I think that Google has proven that Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 style phones are what a lot of people want. But for whatever reason we've seen Google lose sight of this with their Pixel line, and they've been throwing expensive, high-end, unwanted crap at us for a few years now.
If Microsoft released a solid mid-range phone, I would very much considering buying one for myself, and perhaps some for my staff and others I know.
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps where supposed to run on Windows 10 Mobile. Do they remain relevant? Have they ever been?
Android has easy side loading and no dev fees to put out an APK off the store.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Windows Phone is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Windows Phone community when IDC confirmed that Windows Phone market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all phones. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Windows Phone has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Windows Phone is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Windows Phone's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Windows Phone faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Windows Phone because Windows Phone is dying. Things are looking very bad for Windows Phone. As many of us are already aware, Windows Phone continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Windows 10 Mobile is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Windows 10 Mobile developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Windows 10 Mobile is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Windows Phone 8 leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Windows Phone 8. How many users of Windows Phone 7 are there? Let's see. The number of Windows Phone 8 versus Windows Phone 7 posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Windows Phone 7 users. Windows CE posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Windows Phone 7 posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Windows CE. A recent article put Windows 10 Mobile at about 80 percent of the Windows Phone market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Windows 10 Mobile users. This is consistent with the number of Windows 10 Mobile Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Windows 10 Mobile went out of business and was taken over by Windows Mobile 6.5 who sell another troubled OS. Now Windows Mobile 6.5 is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Windows Phone has steadily declined in market share. Windows Phone is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Windows Phone is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Windows Phone continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Windows Phone from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Windows Phone is dead.
Fact: Windows Phone is dying
If it's the same codebase, then no special work is needed for Windows 10 Mobile, it gets carried forward by work on Windows 10.
If it's the same codebase, then there is no "apps shortage", every Metro app written since Windows 8 should work just fine. That was the point of Metro, no?
If it's *not* the same codebase, then it should be called "Windows Phone".
1. Make phone with shitty UI.
2. Make you bread and butter funtion and look like the hated phone UI. To make people like the phone.
4. Stop making phone.
5. ?
6. Profit.
Perhaps they could consider working on a good phone OS and ignoring the "apps"? For example: I'm a grown-up. I don't use "apps". I want the best phone in order to get work done (calls and e-mail). I couldn't give two shits about Twit-Face-Gram-Chat. I have to imagine there are enough people like me out there that generate enough demand to justify working on the OS.
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al-Qaeda in Outer Space uses Win 10 Mobile to communicate with its fleet of UFOs. Little green terrorists are coming to get us! ae911truth dot org
MS was handed a built in majority in the mobile market by way of their market penetration in business desktop and productivity software, and they apparently did everything they could to piss it away. The *moment* they saw what RIM was up to with the blackberry, they should have been thinking to themselves, "We could be doing that so much better, and providing a much better experience".
Instead, they let RIM eat their lunch, then Apple, then Google. All the while kinda half-assing multiple doomed attempts in what is reminiscent of a shakespearean tragedy.
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win32(x86-64)+android phone will be killer
originally I bought myself a Palm Pre. Nice phone, superior OS to Android, but the apps were lacking. Android had many times more apps. Sold the phone, got a Black Berry tho'- the same basic problem: lack of apps, but the OS itself was far superior to Android.
Been using Android for 7 years now, and it sucks. Ever use a Galaxy S7 Edge by Samsung for T-Mobile for example? When using this device, it takes the proverbial lag every time you interact with it. Menus have such high latency to appear, switching between apps there's high latency, etc. It often takes 20+ seconds for Google Maps to become responsive and fully appear. The entire OS is hosed.
I have used an iOS device, quite nice actually by comparison. You'll notice by comparing Super Mario Run on Android and iOS, how much faster iOS is. The app loads many times faster, and goes from screen to screen faster. In game, iOS runs at what looks like double the frame rate, never drops frames, never glitches up. On S7 Edge, which has superior hardware to iPhone 7, the game glitches up, drops frames, lags, and appears to run at a lower resolution and/or lower frame rate the entire time.
Think I've been dealing with laggy phone issues ever since landing on Android.
Life on Android is sad. I was hoping that phone manufactures would allow their phones to dual boot, so I could install another OS, such as Firefox OS, Ubuntu, or Windows 10 Mobile. Overtime as we had choice of OS, people might develop more apps for other OSes, and ditch Android's cheap laggy feel.
What I recall is the issue on Android is the Java Virtual Machine system they use. Articles I read years ago proves iOS apps use 10 times less CPU to do the same task, and perform roughly 10 times faster. This is how iPhone with a mere dual core was able to trump a quad core Android in all tests at the same task. Furthermore Android uses overly aggressive power saving features, preventing the hardware from performing.
Nothing like trying to use your Android, watching it lag. While it appears to be unable to perform, it sucks up the juice, and produces a lot of heat warming your hand. WHAT A RETARDED ASS PRODUCT..
Unfortunately I can't switch to iOS because I need telephone recording features which Android supports, plus I like browsing the desktop version of websites by default instead of Mobile versions.
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Instead, they let RIM eat their lunch, then Apple, then Google. All the while kinda half-assing multiple doomed attempts in what is reminiscent of a shakespearean tragedy.
And managed to burn Nokia in the process (who were in a very strong position before Stephan Elop and Microsoft happened to them).
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Microsoft loved to push this "Big Lie" that Windows Mobile is exactly the same as Windows. They "proved" it by showing Halo running on Windows Phone, except... it was "Halo: Spartan Assault", not the actual Halo game.
As if thousands of developers working on UWP apps were suddenly silenced.
The only reason Windows phone (except for the "Silverlight" only CE based disaster after WM) failed was greed.
They HAD to try and be the next Apple and lock everything down and deny any and all meaningful user choice or customization while continuing to double and triple down on the most spartan fugly pedestrian interface imaginable.
They HAD to try and be the next Google and spy on everything you do to the point where your device is essentially a dumb brick without a Microsoft account.
If they would have released a Windows phone that just ran windows with a customizable and replaceable mobile shell without the artificial constraints and spyware.
If they would have released a phone that easily ran ALL of your windows apps when docked or cast to a display.
The WM crowd would have never abandoned it. Windows developers would have contributed to it.
MS as a company is dead. They are incapable of getting past their greed ... over their foolish emulation of Google and Apples business models. Greed and greed alone will be what leads to the death of this company.
They're only relevant if you think the Windows App Store will be around long, or maybe if you really want your app to run on an XBox.
The best thing MS could've done to save the platform is to focus on running x86 on ARM. At least at that point, phones like the HP Elite x3 would have made sense.
Unfortunately, with HP pulling the plug on the x3 and no real focus on the ARM platform other than as a novelty as well as Intel threatening lawsuits over x86 emulation over ARM, The windows phone market (as well as Windows on ARM for the most part) is all but officially dead.
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"Microsoft Exec Says Windows 10 Mobile is No Longer a 'Focus' "
So for the first time since the Universe was a pup, Microsoft and users actually agree about something.
Truly, these must be the End Times.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Imagine how much sympathy we all have for Microsoft having to face a target market completely locked in by one or two competitors.
I had Windows 7, 8, and 10 phones -- the Samsung Focus, Lumia 920, and Lumia 950.
7, 8, and 8.1 were great. Excellent UI -- better than Android or iPhone in my opinion. Very usable, clean, and never laggy. It could easily run smooth on hardware Android would choke on.
10 has been a horrible experience. For the two years I had my Lumia 950, I had constant problems. A patch would fix one thing and break another. Bluetooth never worked reliably. It somtimes became slow --- slow like Android was slow -- for seemingly no reason at all until a reboot. About a year into the phone, a patch came out that made GPS sporadically stop working until rebooting the phone -- which only exacerbated the Bluetooth issues, as the phone would often not reconnect to my car after a reboot.
I now have an LG V30 that I picked up a few days ago. It is one of the few headphones not only keeping the headphone jack, but doubling down on it by making it super high quality -- I want to vote with my wallet. I'm not happy to be using Android, but I am *extremely* happy to not be using Windows 10 Mobile.
I can only imagine the massive costs Microsoft eat as a result of their mobile lineup. 7 was an all new shell. 8 dumped that shell for a new one, and also brought in the NT kernel. And finally 10 dumped the mobile shell to make the same code shared between desktop and mobile. That was a huge amount of churn.
MS is in deep trouble right now. They have utterly failed to capitalize on the mass consumer shift from desktop to mobile devices. The desktop market is declining, and tearing into their core business in the process.
We've seen this proces repeat many times before:
* workstations canibalized mainframe sales
* desktop PCs canibalized workstation sales
* now, mobile is canibalizing desktop PC sales
The trend is toward smaller, more mobile and user-friendly devices. MS is still trying to sell a very complex and un-friendly environment. They need to find another revenue stream, because that one isn't gonna 100% die out but it is sure as shit gonna fade, just like we don't have 15 different huge companies selling mainframes any more.
You adapt with the times or die.
1. Deprecate the existing WinCE platform and force developers to update their code to the XAML/Silverlight/.NET Platform for Windows Phone 7
2. Deprecate Silverlight, force everyone to switch to C#/C++/Metro backend
3. Deprecate C#/C++/Metro, force everyone to switch to Universal Windows Platform and whatever that supports
Most developers bailed at step 2.
Nexus 6 with PureNexus here. Zero lag.
My wife's Nexus 6 is stock and lags like you describe. I think Android slows down over time like old windows used to...
My uncle had a Samsung S5 and it was a complete dog.
Try using a Pixel. You may be surprised.
Microsoft drops anything and everything they do other than Windows and Office whenever a beancounter somewhere decides it doesn't make (enough) money. And they do it quickly.
So why would anyone buy anything from Microsoft that relies on any kind of post-purchase support (patches, new features etc)?
They've murdered so many music services I've lost count and I still remember how they nicely dropped original XBox like a hot potato immediately after X360 launch. I'm actually amazed how long X360 is still supported, but I guess that's because it still makes money so beancounters haven't got to it yet and it probably shares quite a bit of infrastructure with XBox One.
Whether Microsoft likes it or not, the future of Windows is Win32 apps. That's what forces people to keep using it, and almost nobody who has written an extensive Win32 app is going to rewrite it as a Metro app - though some will rewrite their apps as web apps, Android apps or iOS apps. The app store may someday be chock full of Win32 apps if their ChromeOS competitor ever takes off.
Microsoft has moved on - and their current focus seems to be to attempt to usurp Android, and 'own' it without having to own it. I don't expect great success there either - but if they're allowed to keep extorting patent fees from Android OEM's, they may be able to trade those for a bit of the OEM's souls... ...or maybe they'll just continue to shift their focus to the cloud - which after all, they can actually charge for.
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Not only was it nice to have a third choice of mobile OS, but it was easily the best performing and best-looking of the three, IMO.
There were problems almost everywhere else (hardware, app stability, app selection, etc etc.) but the really nailed the UI of the OS itself.
A few years ago when Windows Phone 7 came out, I remember having a blast hanging out on tech blog forums like Engadget and The Verge and trolling against it. I would write long screeds about how much it sucked, how terrible tiles were, the lackluster hardware, how much Android was better and on and on. Of course the WP7 fanboys would hit right back about how Android lagged and you need overpowered hardware just to run it and how the apps sucked and on and on. It was a blast. Really all in good fun until I finally got bored with the whole scene and moved on. I pretty much forgot about Window Phone until seeing this now. Funnily enough, it doesn't feel as triumphant as I may have thought it would. Another piece of tech whether I used it or not, snuffed out. Damn. I guess throw it on the Palm Pre, Nokia 900, Symbian, etc. pile. Now I'm getting older I'm out of the fanboy stage I'm growing a bit tired of Google and the data siphoning. Don't care for Apple and the walled garden. Hopefully something new will rise from the ashes soon. Of course something always does. Like when IE seemed unstoppable and Mozilla Sunbird/Sunfire/Phoenix, I can't even remember the exact name, started the browser revolution. Excited to see what's next.
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It's quite bad when the Nokia 1020, a circa-2013 phone, can hold its own with modern-day Android devices, much less be able to run more modern code. (Yes, I have both Android and the 1020. I'd just like to see a better camera versus "better processing".)
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I always used to say, Apple OS let you do anything that APPLE thought of really easily and intuitively, without really learning anything, Microsoft OS make you learn the damn thing so you can do whatever YOU can think of. (yes yes yes Linux! but for the masses, the argument holds) The moment Microsoft made an environment where that wasn't the case, where the user and third party programmers weren't encouraged to tinker and be in control was the moment the downward spiral began.
Microsoft has been trying to make it easy to use Visual Studio to write iOS and Android apps. I can see that one possibility would be make it easy to use UWP to write apps that worked well on iOS, Android, and Windows, then come back to mobile devices when there are enough apps that use it and can become mobile Windows apps with a simple recompile.
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The foreseeable future means what 18 months tops before they try this yet again? At first you don't succeed try and try again and hope the consumers forget how you bailed on the market before.
With the rule that you must license all cores in the cluster at a min of 16 per server. That kills for clusters that have a few windows servers and lot's of non windows one. The idea that you must 1 windows only is bad as now you can't update the host without down time.
If I didn't know better, I'd think Microsoft scuttled their mobile direction entirely. They killed off WPF and Silverlight and all their devs left in anger. Steve Sinofsky was the big player in this. He killed Microsoft more than Ballmer.
UWP has zero business UI controls. That is something Microsoft could have done in its sleep if Nadella were smart and not a plant.
WTF is a "Metro app"? Oh, you meant that beta version of cross-device compatibility that they released back around 2011-2012 that didn't correctly support the memory-managed runtime they've been pushing everyone toward for a decade and a half? That they renamed? That they sunsetted when they released the final version and got it out of beta with proper managed-code support? That they've changed the design and style guidelines of 3 times since then? You're right. Nobody writes those. Anybody who stuck with the platform has long since updated past "metro" and is building UWP apps.
It was just two years ago that they showed off the ability to develop iOS and Android apps through UWP. I expect that, with their acquisition of Xamarin, they'll continue to push that direction. Because they're still about the Embrace, Extend, Exclude cycle. (That's the correct version, because they only Extinguish if that's the only way they can Exclude competitors.) They're embracing Android right now. Enjoy your hug, Google. They're preparing to extend the appendage(s) they use to fuck-over all of their competitors. (Rule 34'd!)
Make no mistake, the extension is going on right now. Linux isn't getting .Net Core because Microsoft wants Linux servers to run ASP.Net sites. That's laughable. No, Linux is getting .Net Core so Android can have a compatible .Net implementation, which will allow Microsoft to penetrate deep into the Android OS and plant their microseeds in it. (More rule 34 for you to have nightmares about! Enjoy!) Specifically, it brings native .Net to Android so Xamarin doesn't have to be so complex.
If Apple decides to take the bait and include .Net Core in iOS, simply because of inertia (and there will be inertia once Android is bouncing on that appendage), then Microsoft won't even have to work very hard to dominate iOS development. That makes UWP into simply the Universal Mobile Platform. That will be very handy for developers, so it will be the Handy Universal Mobile Platform, or HUMP. (Rule 1156... that's rule 34, squared.)
take away the stupid tiles then!!!! What the hell do we need tiles for in Windows 10... so stupid.
So I get it that we are probably talking about a phone interface, but tablets are mobile too. I have a couple cheap x86 tablet running a full install of Windows 10. One with Home one with Pro. Windows 10 runs remarkably well on them. I do understand that it's a different ballgame, but I find it to be very useful.
I had a Windows Phone a couple years ago. At first, the interface was great. But once I had installed a number of apps I found it impossible to include more than a few in the launcher before things got out of control.
With some tweaks that I don't think would have to ruin the interface, Windows 10 on an 8inch phone sounds great. With Android apps coming to the browser... better: purchase AMIDuOS from American Megatrends.
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I, unlike most Slashdot readers/kibitzers who feel the need to take a dump on it, have actually used WM10. It's a fantastic system, much better and more reliable than Android or iOS. Microsoft should open source it. They should have done that long ago.
And managed to burn Nokia in the process (who were in a very strong position before Stephan Elop and Microsoft happened to them).
They did screw up Nokia but Nokia was in trouble before they got into bed with Microsoft. Elop was hired BECAUSE Nokia was in trouble and they knew it. It was a bad hire of course but they did see the problem coming. Their failure was an inability to do anything about it. A lot of this was structural. Smartphones are mostly about software and Nokia was never very good at the sort of software that end users actually care about. They could build a decent piece of hardware but the user interfaces generally sucked for anything non-trivial. For a long time they operated under the misapprehension that their customers were the telecoms like AT&T and Verizon rather than IT departments and end users. Their in house operating system strategy was too fragmented and too little too late. By the time they kind of figured out how to do it right it was too late as the market had already chosen the winners (mostly Apple and Google/Samsung).
Microsoft at one point was in the driver's seat to take over the smartphone market but they blew it. They let Apple and Google get ahead of them while they tried to cram Windows into everything. Both Apple and Google kind of started clean sheet. Microsoft's idea to have a system that was coherent and consistent no matter the device was a good idea but they took too long and flubbed the execution of it.
It seems all they've been doing for 10 years is releasing apps, services, and frameworks as if they were setting a dove free and then letting it live or die on its own, rebranding it if it doesn't catch on without changing anything fundamental or changing the way they support it. Also, before everything suffered from too much focus testing, and now it seems like they've abandoned any notion of soliciting input.
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Which is as ridiculous an idea as...buying Nokia's mobile division.
So we got that HORRIBLE "phone/tablet" UI in Windows 8, and still in 8.1 and 10, because of the one-platform-for-all idea (classic desktop + mobile), and now MS is dropping mobile? Does that mean we're getting Windows 11 which is basically an updated Windows 7 (driver models, CPU support, DX12, etc.) or what?
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Poor MS.
Both of them.
Imho, winphone (and the iWatch) havenâ(TM)t achieved much market penetration, because they simply arenâ(TM)t available on cutting edge hardware. market share leads from the top down, and if your flagship product blows, so do all the products that follow it.
> you could rarely count on getting a timely sequel to a handset you liked
That's a feature, not a bug. I don't buy a phone today based on what the next model might be a few years down the road.
Sheesh, how much *do* you like your Apple-flavored Kool-Aid?
On the Android front you have a nonsensical API written in Java (which Google keeps getting sued over). I assume that wasn't Google's... Intent (ooh!).
On the other side Apple tries to lock you into XCode and Objective-C. Because most developers hate Objective-C they created Swift... but still not good enough.
What would be awesome? An OpenSource mobile OS like what Ubuntu tried creating. Basically a laptop inside of a phone. .NET Core to be that universal language / framework. More open than Java with other significant advantages. That would be pretty darn slick.
As for developing for it? You would need some kind of responsive framework. Something like Cordova is so tempting. I would love to blend the lines between Web, Mobile, and Desktop. And when I have to do native... I would prefer
I think xamlstandard +.net core will bridge that gap, but I haven't heard much on the xaml piece yet.
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This should be opened up to the community then. If you're worried about shared propriety code then strip that out and let people rewrite it.
Windows Mobile (IMO) is/was a great OS, and could easily be a competitor to Android and iOS. Microsoft could easily put a dent in the dominance of the other two platforms by simply giving their OS (which they don't care about or value) away.
But they won't. :(
"The executive boils it down to one main reason: the difficulty of getting developers to write apps."
Well, talk to your Program Managers. I talked to at least one of them about the ridiculous cost. $99/year for iOS is too damn high. Apple can demand it because they have the market share and were FIRST TO MARKET. Microsoft never got above, what, 10%? Yet you wanted the same $99/year from developers to publish apps to your app store. Heck no! You started LONG after iOS and Android had been in the market. You needed to operate like the underdog that you were. At most, a one-time fee of $10 to publish.
Oh, and the ridiculous phone/device lockout policy for testing applications crippled any serious software development on your mobile platform. You might want to fire whoever decided to do that because that was a major contributing factor to the failure of your platform.
"Make no mistake, the extension is going on right now. Linux isn't getting .Net Core because Microsoft wants Linux servers to run ASP.Net sites. That's laughable."
Oh, so SQL Server 2016 for Linux is actually intended for Android? Thanks, now I won't even consider it ...
Android for 7 years now, and it sucks. Ever use a Galaxy S7 Edge by Samsung for T-Mobile for example? When using this device, it takes the proverbial lag every time you interact with it.
Hopefully you're not technical in android function, otherwise this post will end up being irony and sarcasm. Each app you install on your android device has a potential to slow down your device, either ram usage, background services usage, storage space, permissions, battery usage, notifications, auto updates, auto scan, auto backup, etc. Each new OS update you install will also has a potential to slow down your device, like iOS.
You can of course manually turn off/ block app functions to ensure your device work the way it should, however here is an easier way. You can stop apps from causing lags by trying to uninstall them first, with the most recently installed app first. If you have too many apps, you can factory wipe the device back to the initial factory state. Of course, you should backup before doing any of this.
If the factory wipe did not improve your device function, then it could be the bloatware from samsung. Try going to the installed app and look for names under samsung. If you can uninstall them, uninstall them. Otherwise, look and see if you can disable them. If you can, disable them.
Now your device should be much more responsive.
Maybe that's why Google's gone into hardware with their Pixel devices. Those devices aren't any better than the competition (though they are pretty good), but they do get around Microsoft's ability to bribe or extort OEM's into including their software - and even embedding it deeply into the system as you suggest.
If Google can establish a safely Microsoft-free version of Android as one of the top tier OEM's, they have at least some ability to buffer against that. And if, as they seem poised to do, they start making deals to put out nice, mid-tier Android One devices - also carrying a 'pure' version of Android, they don't even have to win the market share game with their own devices. In a way, the high price of Pixels along with the promise of more or less free software and update handling for mid-tier Android One ought to preserve the dynamism of Android hardware while solidifying a standard version of the software. Even if Google were to achieve iPhone level sales (and they won't), that'd still leave a vast swath of the Android ecosystem open to competition.
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Can you expand a bit on how very strong Nokia's position was, the moment that iPhone went on sale?
Here's an overly long rant by an analyst, with lots of details of what went wrong.
I certainly don't remember things that way.
Part of this boils down "In my tiny corner of the world, everybody flocked en masse to the Jesus Phone !" - "Yeah but not all the planet Earth follows what happens to be popular in California, and billions of people can't afford Apple overpriced iGadgets while these billions are still in need of some portable communication tools, and Nokia phones are serving them better than anything".
After the release of iPhone Nokia was basically insanely huge everywhere except in the US (more precisely in the specific sub-market of high range smartphone in the US).
In terms of absolute unit shipped or total revenue, that *still* put them ahead of every one else.
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Windows Universal was the shittiest thing I've ever had to develop in, Hypercard and 3D graphics in QBasic were so much more pleasant.