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LurkerJ on 28 May 2016
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Zappykins said:
LurkerJ said:

Oh yes, the Surface phone. Why is that a thing Windows Mobile fans cling to? 

The Surface brand? Surface sales remain below those of the iPad and those are deemed as a failure. Features? Whatever groundbreaking features it may have, the competition will copy it in no time, assuming MS can come up with said features in the first place, because so far they've playing catch up with Android and iOS. The only unique gimmick they tried to push was continumm, which is a feature we saw first in Ubuntu, and as proven by the sales of both handsets, there is no demand for it. 

Microsoft is out of tricks. I am afriad the ultimate Windows Mobile resurrection has happened already; MS apps on every popular mobile OS.

Ha ha ha ha,  Surface a failure?  You must be smoking too much of the good stuff.

Thanks for the laugh man.  That was good.  Can you top it?

That's not what I meant to say at all, the Surface line will continue to grow and it is a nice source of revenue. However, the surface brand is still not mainstream enough to slap it on a phone and ensure its success. 

MS isn't gearing up for anything when it comes to mobile hardware business. They just shut down their any effort to sell devices outside of the US/EU , including Brazil, one of the place where their phones is most popular. They give up on the dream, time for everyone else to accept it. MS took missteps, every step of the way.

It saddens me, actually. I don't want Google's Android to be left unchallanged. Peope will stop buying premium phones eventually and Android will be the go to OS for everyone. Competition breeds better products, always.