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Did Microsoft just give up on Windows Phone?
Windows Phone is in trouble. Despite spending around $7.2 billion to acquire Nokia’s phone business, Microsoft isn’t making any money out of Windows Phones and has decided to write off most of its...
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I've got a Windows Phone, a Lumia 520, because it's a cheap device and had free GPS functionality with HERE Maps that didn't require an internet connection. You get good space on it and while there aren't a lot of apps and it drives me crazy, it's a decent system. I get a lot of spam phone calls and private number calls and those are blocked without an app being needed, I just add to blocklist and all calls from those numbers get a busy signal. I like that. I can't wait to see if Windows 10 turns all that around, I need some apps.
I've also got a Moto E, but it pisses me off to no end because there is no space on it after all the uninstallable crapware updates and takes the space. On top of that Google decided on kitkat and newer devices you can't move apps or their data to the damn SD card.
That isn't a google thing though, thats the manufacturer and carrier.
I really recommend for anyone out there to install custom or use a Google Play Edition device to have a clean Android experience.
All the things I've read about Windows 10 and the new Windows phones coming out led me to believe the opposite. I'm not that smart though, so there's that.
The press push now is similar to the lead up to the release of the surface. Portions of the media call EVERY Microsoft product dead before arrival. They've been beating the windows phone is dead horse since before windows phone 7.
Agreed. Let's see how the rollout of Windows 10 does on all platforms and then we will see. I would love to test a Windows Phone but until tons of more applications come along, there's just no point for me. Too bad MS can't incorporate the Google Play store . . .
I had a lumia 920 which was my first smartphone. I don't think windows phones are dead but they probably won't grow anymore. at least not in the west, afaik they are rising in africa and asia.
That said after I discovered that Microsoft also benefits from a strong androi marketshare I lost faith in their ecosystem. They didn't push their own services on their own mobile devices hard enough either. Youtube vs Windows Phone was also a burden (not sure what has changed)
The whole buying Lumia move surprised me when they first announced me but this seems to be the end of windows phone.