Thread 106313135

Why did Windows phone fail?

>>106313135 (OP)
iOS and Android were already established at that point. Also, Windows Phone lacked software.

Microsoft killed it. They have enough money they could have made it a thing, but they weren't happy being 3rd place with single digit marketshare so they cut losses and pulled the plug. Dumb decision because iOS and Android are shit, and normies don't buy PCs or even laptops anymore, so Microsoft is just giving up on individuals and only targeting businesses. Gen Alphabeta won't even know Microsoft as anything but the company that makes the other Playstation.

>>106313135 (OP)
Satphone Nutella didn't want to babysit Balmer and Elop's failed pet project / deliberately set it up to fail. Google jeets probably paid him off at their biweekly jeet meeting.

>>106313135 (OP)
It was horrible. I had one of those phones briefly. It's had win8 vibes to it which where even worse on phone.
Shittiest of all failed phone operating systems.

>>106313135 (OP)
Microsoft launched their SDK three times, this discouraged developers a lot. Google sued everyone using their APIs, that is why there was no official Google apps on Windows phone, while third party apps got sued into oblivion.
Also, Microsoft tried to compete with Google services and failed. Their best effort was with HERE Maps.
In the end, Steve Ballmer tried too hard on many fronts, while Google did play a significant role on Window Phone downfall. At some point there was a push on bringing other services into the platform, then Microsoft fucked up with their SDK reimplementation bullshit.
Then Satya Nadella arrived and pushed on a different strategy, which is bringing services into the mainstream platforms, not making Windows the mainstream platform, his strategies with Azure made him CEO and turned out one of the best things Microsoft did in the last decade.
Xbox is an hybrid between Steve Ballmer's and Satya's strategy.

>>106313135 (OP)
>paying 500 dollars for a phone

>>106314510
The relaunching shit is really what killed it. Breaking compatibility alienated devs and flushed their subsidy money down the toilet.

Oooohhhh, it's been a while since we've had a, "Why did Windows Phone fail?". In the end there were two factors; lack of apps and a product range that had a dearth of high end devices but a plethora of mid to low-end phones aimed at the third world market that was already saturated with Android devices.

>>106313135 (OP)
->They were late to an established market
->Non-competitive app store
->The winkek kernel (you couldn't even upgrade between 7 and 8 for example)

> Do nothing better than competition
> Fuck up SDKs so Devs hate it
> Have no Apps for anything
Why won't you give me moneys

>>106313135 (OP)
They thought they were next big thing too soon, if they were more friendly towards app devs it wouldn't die

>>106313135 (OP)
They forgot the face of their father

>>106313135 (OP)
If you understand why Windows OS succeeded, you'll understand why Windows phone failed.

>>106313135 (OP)
They were #3 in a global market big enough to support two ecosystems. They then managed to dissuade both developers and users, killing it all stone dead.

>>106317430
I don't think Steve's dad was juiced up with the San Francisco Fed.

>>106313135 (OP)
same reason why desktop windows succeeded.
They couldn't topple the apple and google dependent software ecosystem that already grew for at least 4 years before they decided to hop into the bubble.