Leynos said:
I dunno. Their phones stunk. Kin was a terrible idea. If they re-entered unless they do something drastically different with the phones OS and not Windows on a phone they'd get eaten alive again by Android and Apple. |
Previous MS CEO was too hard headed to see the potential of the smartphone market so MS was insanely late to the game. Because iOS and Android were already way ahead in market share, devs didn't have any interest or incentive to make native apps for Windows Phone like Instagram, YouTube, etc. because of such low market share, thus the platform couldn't grow even with that idiotic Nokia purchase. Not to mention, their best phones were exclusively on carriers like AT&T and Verizon in the US, so that was also a limiting factor.
Damn shame too. Windows Phone OS was a breath of fresh air in the smartphone market when iOS and Android were becoming increasingly similar in design and for the brief period I had one, I loved typing on that thing! To this day, that was the best feeling digital keyboard to type on. But, like many who gave the platform a try, there was just no apps.
