Pipmatz wrote:
The failure of Windows Phone 7 to 10 had nothing to do with the tiles. They even arrived extremely well because they were interactive and more could than the ordinary Apple stuff. The design was even copied under Android.
WP was quite good at the EU market, thanks Nokia! Double digits in some countries, which is not bad for a new OS.
In the United States, Windows Phone were not even looked at with the ass – Nokia 520 went out for $ 30 because nobody knew and wanted the stuff. MS was unable to advertise or pick up people in the States. Classics as always – no US market, then no market. At some point you pulled the plug.
The neck broke came through MS itself, because one thought that the devs would already jump onto the new OS and the train and simply port their apps or for WP code.
In the end you landed in the henne egg problem because nobody wanted to develop for WP with too few users and at the same time nobody wanted to come to WP because there were no apps.
In addition, MS has screwed something on the DEV Tools with every new version, set other goals to keep up with Android and iOS – the result was rather annoyed and grueled developers who also jumped in.
What was added outside of the EU, especially in the USA, was the lack of offer from telephone providers with Windows Phone. In the EU / de there was enough Windows Phone at T-Com, Vodafone etc. to the contract.
The coffin nail was WP 10, which was simply buggy and in any way worse than WP 8.1. – Starting with Music Player, through the worse camera / image quality of the photos up to
In and after many years WP and Android, I can say absolutely convinced that Windows Phone 8.1. The peak was and the best smartphone OS with all the features that I have ever used.
