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Comment on Microsoft Gaming CEO: “I think we should have a handheld, too”

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

And it’s absolutely Microsoft’s cycle. New game changer product comes on the market, they rush a half ass version out with the promise of a really good one later, half ass one flops, they scrap the whole idea because no one wants the half ass version, they fade into obscurity.

Tablets, VR, video chat, phones

Anyone remember this?

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petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is that the table?

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- UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The iphone
  
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  - petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh! This was an ad! Those cocky sons o bitches.
    
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    teft@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Not an ad. Microsoft employees held a funeral for iphone when MS released windows phone 7.
    
    businessinsider.com/microsoft-iphone-funeral-2010…
    
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  - Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    kent about as well as the release of the zune
    
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I loved windows phone, the UI was so clear (I still use square home on android to this day), the camera app was superb and it was a very efficient operating system for low end hardware.

It didn’t have a ton of apps but honestly I don’t know, sometimes that doesn’t feel like a bad thing for a thing I am always trying to make more into a tool than an addiction….

Sure windows phone wasn’t going to grow rapidly for years, but it was well situated to take advantage of an opportunity in the future when apple or google stumbled and created an opening. I think for a company as large as Microsoft just abandoning it entirely was a massively stupid move. Now Microsoft has a gigantic blind spot in mobile, and they are stuck in that position.

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