Petition seeks to revive Windows Phone

[maflynn]

I had owned the windows phone and it was "ok" Not great, not bad, just ok. I find it a bit funny that there's a change.org petition to try to sway MS to revive the product
Change.org petition seeks to revive Windows Phone, and dozens are signing up!
I love how the title of the articles proudly promotes that dozens of people have signed up - lol.

Still, it seems that 572 people have indeed signed the petition

 

[boswald]

It's a shame they never took off. But Microsoft made a couple misfires and the rest is history. However, choice between the big three would be nice these days.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

I still have a Nokia Lumia 1520 in my drawer. Loved everything about the phone, except the lack of native 3rd party apps. Client apps was just not cutting it.

Even if MS can solve the app issue, it's going to be extremely hard for them to come up with a hardware design that entices people like Nokia did.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

I still have a Nokia Lumia 1520 in my drawer. Loved everything about the phone, except the lack of native 3rd party apps. Client apps was just not cutting it.

Even if MS can solve the app issue, it's going to be extremely hard for them to come up with a hardware design that entices people like Nokia did.

MS has NO chance at this point. The smartphone market is too mature and saturated with once big names like Sony leaving. Currently it is Apple followed by Samsung then Google for Android. OnePlus who once was a premier phone is now a niche player. There's no way that MS leapfrogs OnePlus unless they basically give their phones away and they are of course always tied to Windows which has people who would not own anything Microsoft because of that.

 

[HouseLannister]

Microsoft always made some big bets on mobile. But the follow through wasn't there. Always interesting, but never good. They get tired of being last place and quit when they should be doubling down. Gates said not dominating mobile was one of his biggest mistakes.

CE was very ahead of its time, but didn't evolve enough as the market moved from PDAs to smartphones.

The Kin was kind of a neat idea -- a smart-ish phone that was for kids and easy to use, but it launched at the wrong time when phones cost $30 more for the data plans. Parents just couldn't get over the added cost back then.

Windows Phone was a really cool attempt. Microsoft buying Nokia gave them some very colorful phones with great cameras. It was probably the best shot they had. But just gave up on the whole thing when it failed to have momentum. Developers didn't want to be there and Windows desktop already had moved away from the Metro/Modern Windows 8 look.

Then they switch to Android with their own launcher and launch the Surface phone which was really cool when folding phones were so compromised, but they just stop again when they get bored. Easier to just pay Samsung and others to pre install their apps than actually build something.