They never got the app developers on board. That's what killed it.
Where's the Surface phone?
Where's the Surface phone?
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Microsoft Ends Support for 'Windows Phone' After Years of Battling to Compete With iPhone and Android
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
People should be in jail for what happened to Nokia. What a waste.
I have a buddy who works at a Microsoft Store. A few years back, he used to be obsessed with Windows phones and the Lumia line. Would never shut up about them and constantly tried to convince me to switch. Always gave him reasons why I wouldn't try their OS, and his response was always "Something big is coming, trust me." I wonder if this is what he had meant.
Just like BlackBerry's 10 OS ... which for a time I loved. Don't laugh at me!
Funny just under 30-40 Days after this Blockbuster hit movie debuted showing off a Zune at the end.
Which probably made this guy happy until today:
Very much this. Ballmer laughed the iPhone off and said businesses won't like it because it doesn't have a keyboard (quick, name five current popular phones that have physical keyboards), and that Microsoft is "selling millions and millions and millions of phones a year and Apple is selling zero." Now Apple is selling close to a million iPhones a day. "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!"Who's laughing now?
Last edited:
I predicted this would happen years ago in fact it was the reason I was thrown off ZDNet for disagreeing with Ed Bott the number 1 Microsoft puppet
What a stupid article. News stories don't make corporate decisions yet I saw a similar article a year ago that it was "dead". How ODD I've received at least 4 updates for my Windows 10 phone in the past 6 months including the major Creator's update! They dropped support for an older OS version? Apple does that all the freaking time! That doesn't mean they killed the iPhone! How the hell it's even LEGAL to just MAKE UP FACTUAL STATEMENTS like that without legal repercussions (because media reports DO affect sales) is just utterly beyond me. Microsoft should sue the living hell out the news sources MAKING UP FAKE NEWS. There's a difference between focusing on another product and killing off a product completely. But that's now how they report it. They call it DEAD. They're helping to make it happen. I wonder if they are getting kickbacks from Google or Apple when I see such blatant bias and falsehoods printed.
Now I'm reading one at least one of the offenders that they differentiate between "Windows Phone" and "Windows Mobile" saying the former term only applies to Windows 8.x phones and earlier and that the new name is for Windows 10 phones but that's not the official name so therefore the are perfectly JUSTIFIED in making the world believe Microsoft no longer has support for their phones what-so-ever. What a load of irresponsible horse manure. They can't help but use a sensationalist title to push ad sales while pushing the fake news phenomena even further. They know damn well what that sounds like. CNET had a responsible article by comparison simply saying Microsoft ended Windows 8.1 mobile support in the title, not the "Death of Windows Phone!" knowing full well what that sounds like to the public.
Imagine if they screamed about the death of the Apple watch or some other product that isn't selling hand over foot.
Now I'm reading one at least one of the offenders that they differentiate between "Windows Phone" and "Windows Mobile" saying the former term only applies to Windows 8.x phones and earlier and that the new name is for Windows 10 phones but that's not the official name so therefore the are perfectly JUSTIFIED in making the world believe Microsoft no longer has support for their phones what-so-ever. What a load of irresponsible horse manure. They can't help but use a sensationalist title to push ad sales while pushing the fake news phenomena even further. They know damn well what that sounds like. CNET had a responsible article by comparison simply saying Microsoft ended Windows 8.1 mobile support in the title, not the "Death of Windows Phone!" knowing full well what that sounds like to the public.
Imagine if they screamed about the death of the Apple watch or some other product that isn't selling hand over foot.
Last edited:
Agreed. What the hell is Microsoft thinking with that UI design? It's utterly terrible.
Not to mention that it's too flat IMO and it makes it hard to differentiate between different UI elements.
Who's laughing now?
I like many Microsoft products, but it is HILARIOUS to hear him mocking the iPhone while touting the bright future of the Zune and Windows mobile devices.
Truth be told I liked the Windows Mobile OS. Apple could take a page from Microsoft's book and implement the equivalent of live tiles on iOS. I've currently got 28 icons on my screen of which I regularly use five or six. I would much prefer the news app show me the top headlines from the topic of my choice, the email app show me the subjects of my most recent five messages, the weather app show me a pictorial representation of the next five days' weather, the stock app show me quotes from the stocks or indexes of my choice, etc. I could get a decent overview of what I wanted to know just by unlocking the phone.
The social media integration had great promise where I could see posts on various services like Twitter and Facebook for my specific contacts in one place. I realize the app developers killed that because they want you using their services exclusively, but it was still a wonderful idea that made keeping up with activities much easier.
If Microsoft could do those things on a phone like the Nokia 520 five years ago surely Apple can do better now.
The social media integration had great promise where I could see posts on various services like Twitter and Facebook for my specific contacts in one place. I realize the app developers killed that because they want you using their services exclusively, but it was still a wonderful idea that made keeping up with activities much easier.
If Microsoft could do those things on a phone like the Nokia 520 five years ago surely Apple can do better now.
The Windows Phone was actually a nice Phone that had potential and decent OS. It just lacked the appropriate demographic through advertising and very little application support to expand, which it ultimately fell flat.
Nonsense. It was a pretty good mobile OS. The problem is it had no app support and the market it was trying to enter was heavily saturated.
I still don’t know why this is so hard for
Microsoft. Their approach to the smartphone should be so simple. Take android, remove all google products (you don’t need play store when you can get developers to offer the exact same code in Microsoft’s own store). Make it pretty much the complete Microsoft phone (built in one drive, office, and tie in all Microsoft’s services) on a foundation of an OS people are already familiar with and app developers have already made apps for.
[doublepost=1499800548][/doublepost]
Lol, yeah but Apple isn’t really better when it comes to consistent naming schemes.
I'll agree with the versioning comment but not necessarily with the development aspect. I've got one of those now-unlocked $30 Lumia 640 with a Win 10 ROM (or whatever it's officially called) loaded and tied to the Fast Ring - a new update came out last night. Stock apps are updated regularly, the email client is on par with the iOS Mail app, the Maps app offers more than the iOS Maps app (including layered tabs with saved searches) and better navigation IMO with the only weakness being Yelp integration, and speech-to-text is hugely more accurate than Apple's offering.
Also cute to see Apple trying to emulate tying an "X" in lieu of a swipe in the App Switcher to dismiss apps when Win Phone now has both options. But only us 20-30 users of Win Phone will know that tidbit. :snarky evil grin:
A few fixes there. About the support, some of the Win forums have a pretty rabid following. Several of us have ROMed Win Phones and we're going to check out a Surface Phone should it - yep, I'll write it - surface on the retail market…
This.
Windows 10 Mobile is the successor to Windows phone (the OS). Support would've ended anyway.
Where are the articles about Apple "ending" support for iOS 1 through 9?
Too bad, I preferred Apple competing against Microsoft and not against android.
Android is all about breaking the phone barrier, making the hardware a commodity, and getting margins on your data and info.
Apple and Microsoft are more about the hardware and software integration (although Ms didn’t succeed). But those two competing would have resulted in quality phones competing and Apple trying harder in business.
Android is all about breaking the phone barrier, making the hardware a commodity, and getting margins on your data and info.
Apple and Microsoft are more about the hardware and software integration (although Ms didn’t succeed). But those two competing would have resulted in quality phones competing and Apple trying harder in business.
That was a major problem with the UI. Also, the scroll left stuff was annoying. I owned 6 different Windows Phones, was not fun.
I think we found the Windows Phone user.
Remember that analyst who said they would overtake iOS?
The mobile landscape is very interesting. I remember when Apple released the iPhone 4S, Blackberry was still popular enough that when BBM went down it made the news / trended on Twitter.
The mobile landscape is very interesting. I remember when Apple released the iPhone 4S, Blackberry was still popular enough that when BBM went down it made the news / trended on Twitter.
The writing was already on the wall for Nokia long before all the Elop/MS business, if that's what you're referring to. It was the emerging competition and Nokia's failure to stay one step ahead of it that ultimately doomed the company.
Now we get to sit back and enjoy these quality articles such as:
http://bgr.com/2011/05/10/windows-phone-will-beat-android-in-2013-analyst-explains/
http://www.redmondpie.com/iphone-vs-windows-phone-7-series-9140452/
http://bgr.com/2011/05/10/windows-phone-will-beat-android-in-2013-analyst-explains/
http://www.redmondpie.com/iphone-vs-windows-phone-7-series-9140452/
Last edited: