It's a great UI for old people, but not for someone used to a desktop or traditional mobile OS. It was modeled just like windows 8.1 apps that everyone hated
My dad was working at Microsoft during the Longhorn/Vista development. And he thinks that Windows phone died because of Microsoft was charging core with every new versions and developers just didn't wanted to rewrite the apps every time.
It was only lack of apps that killed windows, even now also many great apps are not on windows. If they are able to conquer this issue, Win can easily get ahead of Android in no time.
But they should've done that 10 years ago, when Android and iOS were still not super far ahead that they can easily catch up if they pursue to push the Windows OS forward to having more apps. 10 years already since they've stopped, and Android & iOS have both evolved already to at least a million of apps each. I don't know how Microsoft would try to catch up to that, other than having so much money to spend on having app developers to also develop their apps for Windows Mobile OS. In other words, it's not realistically possible anymore for any of them to even try to come up with a new mobile OS and have it immediately catch up to both iOS and Android without spending possibly trillions or even quadrillions of dollars just to have as much apps as Android and iOS. Samsung, one of the current largest tech company, can't even do it with their total net worth, so I can't even imagine anybody else doing it.
Microsoft is one of the biggest software company in the world not only device seller like samsung. So if they would achieve making for example windows 11 mini for smartphones so that this smartphone can do anything pc can it would also be able to run android games on emulator so that way it would win.
@@eliteknight2137 ui of pc softwares arent suitable for phones. They tried windows 8 for touch friendly. But traditional pc users wanted start button and stuff
I have a Lumia 950 sitting in a box. I booted it a couple of months ago and one of the UA-cam apps I used to use is still getting updates. Awesome developer.
How this apps is called? Because i also have lumia 1320 whoch i force upgraded to wmobile 10 from 8.1 but edge explorer is to slow to watch anything on it.
@@shlokshah5379Maybe, but a lil bit of originality wouldn't hurt. Nowadays all phones regardless if it's a Samsung or an iphone literally look the same. if there are any changes then they will be more internal than external
That would be an extremely costly move, especially now that Android and iOS are the solely known major OS platforms available for all smartphones today. Android and iOS each have at least millions of apps in them. The greatest challenge for Windows OS, if it ever comes back, is to have those apps developed and incorporated into the Windows Mobile ecosystem as well in order to at least have a proper fight against Android and iOS. Such a thing is close to impossible unless you can pay each app developers at least a few hundred thousand dollars to develop their apps in your own OS. That's why nobody really has dared to challenge the two for the past few years now. Not even the multi-billion dollar company Samsung can pull off a rich and powerful third mobile OS to challenge Android and iOS even if they're the closest brand to ever making it possibly happen.
I had an lg windows phone 7, the marketplace no longer works, but thankfully i jailbreaked it and now i can play the nostalgia games that i've saved on my old 2010 laptop
I used to own a windows phone, it came up with a lot of physical customisation options and the OS's interaction, navigation and the general feel was so good but the lack of a play store was a deal breaker. Had to switch to Android later for the same reason.
I had one and I absolutely loved it. I dud definitely notice the lack of apps but at the time, I overlooked it. Loved the layout, look, feel etc. Definitely one of my favorite devices
My counselor actually asked me to help her with her phone and that was the first time I ever even had seen a windows phone, I helped her as well as I could but there was a few apps that I could not find. I Googled on my tablet (which also was my phone at the time) and found out that it doesn't exist on the windows phone. 🙄
Just read the previews only. As the CEO that time was Steve Ballmer, he made a huge mistake to look down on iPhone & Android. Toonlate to enter the market. Based on that info, never bought any Windows phone. Also the interface was mase exactly the same as Windows8, which was cursed by Windows users. So, nah, not buying any.
My mom, yes… she introduced it to the hungarian shelfs. And she gave me one on release, i was a kid back then and i LOVED angry birds. this is a little story of mine.
I had couple of them. I loved it, especially WP8. Sad they gave up on it, probably with Win10 had they sticked bit longer it might have been better. Now i m stuck with Android or iOS.
I really loved the Metro UI and even created Hotmail when using galaxy fame in 2014 just to buy and use Lumia phones in future...but things never happened 😢
I have a broken lumia 435. I’m planning to bring it to the repair shop to fix the power button but i forgot where’d i put it. That phone was great tho, even have a low specs, it was good for Asphalt 8 and NFS Hot pursuit
Had Lumia 610 as replacement phone. Even if it was made in my homeland, I was shocked how awful the single core and Windows Phone combined at the time was, that I did almost anything to get my precious HTC Desire Z back.
Windows phone is the worst user experience. The most intolerable is when you tap on a person on a contact list, it syraight away call that person. It irritates me as I wanted to copy a person number but always ended up calling that person.
I didn't own a Windows Phone, but my first smartphone was a Nokia with Symbian installed, that OS was also pretty weak with the amount of apps available on it.
I recently uptaded my wp 920 to win10. There was one (1) game available on microsoft store.. bootleg copy of temple run. I have to spoof the phone think it was an 950 to be able to download uptades.. supricingly the uptade services are still running
I had a Nokia Lumia 520. Generally, when somebody had a Windows phone the performance and software support was lackluster. The UI was very good, but since it was based on Windows NT of the time, it felt more disconnected from the outside world than your Android phone for your iphone, because Windows wasn't exactly programmed to have constant background checks and weather service plugins on your home screen. The Windows phone definitely had more potential than was realized, but it was executed poorly.
I dont remember the model, but it had a horizontal oval for a camera frame, and it was my first ever phone. Its screen was literally not even glass. IT WAS PLASTIC
I bought a Nokia Lumia 520 for $39 and used it as an iPod to stream music from my OneDrive using the Groove app via WiFi. I never did activate its SIM card.
I owned one. Hated it. It needed me to connect to a PC to install ringtones.i had already used Android before so I knew that wasn't an issue there nor on my feature phone before. I switched to Android and never looked back
i had 2 windows phone 610 and one 830 xl if i remember wel. i remember those mising apps but i had a problem with the speaker had to get another phone i took a step to android
I think this is sadly how most tech innovations die. Someone creates a new OS or something that is genuinely better than what's already out there and nobody wants to make apps for it because "it's too much work to make apps for another OS". It's like the thing about Fortnite and Linux. Epic says they won't make a Linux version of Fortnite because " there enough Linux players to justify it", but what if there aren't many Linux gamers because Epic won't release Fortnite on Linux? Same goes for the Windows Phone. I don't think it was Microsoft's fault that it died off. I think yhe fault lies on the app developers who refused to make Windows Phone apps. Kinda makes me wonder if Google and Apple are involved somehow just so they can keep their marketshares.
The windows phone was ok. My mom had one when i was really young. She gave it to me when she a got a new phone, and i kid you not, i threw it in the trash one night because all of sudden the thing wouldnt stop beeping and making wierd ass sounds. Found out later that it was a really wierd virus. Those things had no protection.
I hate Windows and use Linux or Freebsd as a rule, but I also owned two Winphones and actually like them. They actually had more apps than I needed and what they had they did it reasonably well. In any case, I preferred them over Android and I have never bought into the Apple ecosystem.
Ive had 3 i lvoed them yeah app support sucked but they were great for texting and calling and my mobile hotspot i always had an android just incase i needed a game or whatever
Microsoft was a bit too greedy and charged developers more than what google or apple would to release an app (as I was told, honestly I wouldn’t be surprised)
Microsoft were just too late to the game with a brilliantly designed U.I. but silly restrictions thrown at manufacturers and developers. Apple were first in, developers rushed to get their software on the app store. Google already had a handset ready to go head to head with the Windows Mobile, they took one look at the iPhone launch event and immediately tore up their original plans - they saw what they wanted and went for it. Android had way less restrictions for manufacturers and developers, plus they took way less revenue from developers.
I owned 2 windows phone and I loved it. Honestly, if they open source the marketplace, I believe it would be better.
My mom has one too
And now its mine!
Microsoft and open source lol
@@originzz you probably live in the past, recent ms apps are mostly open-source, even ms ownes github
My grandma had 2 of them!!! ❤❤❤
It's a great UI for old people, but not for someone used to a desktop or traditional mobile OS. It was modeled just like windows 8.1 apps that everyone hated
I'd say that kinda worked great for a phone OS, not so much for a desktop OS.
My dad was working at Microsoft during the Longhorn/Vista development. And he thinks that Windows phone died because of Microsoft was charging core with every new versions and developers just didn't wanted to rewrite the apps every time.
Your dad is right.
The longhorn never existed
Longhorn was the code name for Vista I think. @@RandomPerson-hg2px
@@RandomPerson-hg2pxIt did. It's just a abandoned project.
@@zeze64.development build*
It was only lack of apps that killed windows, even now also many great apps are not on windows. If they are able to conquer this issue, Win can easily get ahead of Android in no time.
But they should've done that 10 years ago, when Android and iOS were still not super far ahead that they can easily catch up if they pursue to push the Windows OS forward to having more apps.
10 years already since they've stopped, and Android & iOS have both evolved already to at least a million of apps each. I don't know how Microsoft would try to catch up to that, other than having so much money to spend on having app developers to also develop their apps for Windows Mobile OS.
In other words, it's not realistically possible anymore for any of them to even try to come up with a new mobile OS and have it immediately catch up to both iOS and Android without spending possibly trillions or even quadrillions of dollars just to have as much apps as Android and iOS.
Samsung, one of the current largest tech company, can't even do it with their total net worth, so I can't even imagine anybody else doing it.
Microsoft is one of the biggest software company in the world not only device seller like samsung. So if they would achieve making for example windows 11 mini for smartphones so that this smartphone can do anything pc can it would also be able to run android games on emulator so that way it would win.
@@troy5568huawei started their own os and ecosystem recently and now they are big...
@@eliteknight2137 ui of pc softwares arent suitable for phones. They tried windows 8 for touch friendly. But traditional pc users wanted start button and stuff
People: "this phone is bad"
Me: "ISN'T THAT TREVOR'S PHONE?????" 😂
I still have a brand new nearly unused Lumia 980 lying in its box. Nearly unused cause it had no apps.
Boy I sure wish they at least made it to the x80 generation (I'm pretty sure this is a typo).
Can u give me that plsssssssss😂
I have a Lumia 950 sitting in a box. I booted it a couple of months ago and one of the UA-cam apps I used to use is still getting updates. Awesome developer.
How this apps is called? Because i also have lumia 1320 whoch i force upgraded to wmobile 10 from 8.1 but edge explorer is to slow to watch anything on it.
@@eliteknight2137 myTube
Had one and loved it. I want it back so badly. 😭😭😭
we need windows phone to be back. Smartphones world is so boring AF with android and IOS only
King you dropped this 👑
Probably better without that. I hope more linux phones come out.
@@shlokshah5379Maybe, but a lil bit of originality wouldn't hurt. Nowadays all phones regardless if it's a Samsung or an iphone literally look the same. if there are any changes then they will be more internal than external
How do you ensure it even gets a start? If app support isn't great when it comes out, people won't buy it.
That would be an extremely costly move, especially now that Android and iOS are the solely known major OS platforms available for all smartphones today.
Android and iOS each have at least millions of apps in them. The greatest challenge for Windows OS, if it ever comes back, is to have those apps developed and incorporated into the Windows Mobile ecosystem as well in order to at least have a proper fight against Android and iOS.
Such a thing is close to impossible unless you can pay each app developers at least a few hundred thousand dollars to develop their apps in your own OS. That's why nobody really has dared to challenge the two for the past few years now. Not even the multi-billion dollar company Samsung can pull off a rich and powerful third mobile OS to challenge Android and iOS even if they're the closest brand to ever making it possibly happen.
I had an lg windows phone 7, the marketplace no longer works, but thankfully i jailbreaked it and now i can play the nostalgia games that i've saved
on my old 2010 laptop
Imagine if it still existed, ppl would be running PC games on phones.
I used to own a windows phone, it came up with a lot of physical customisation options and the OS's interaction, navigation and the general feel was so good but the lack of a play store was a deal breaker. Had to switch to Android later for the same reason.
I had one and I absolutely loved it. I dud definitely notice the lack of apps but at the time, I overlooked it. Loved the layout, look, feel etc. Definitely one of my favorite devices
My counselor actually asked me to help her with her phone and that was the first time I ever even had seen a windows phone, I helped her as well as I could but there was a few apps that I could not find. I Googled on my tablet (which also was my phone at the time) and found out that it doesn't exist on the windows phone. 🙄
I remember that one Windows Phone ad bragging about having hundreds of apps
When iOS and Android had millions apps at that time..
I think Microsoft should bring it back as a Surface Phone, and integrate Bing AI into the assistant,
but change the UI to sort of adapt for mobile.
But what would make developers make apps for it?
@@QuarioQuario54321 Idk maybe like games and stuff
this dude is the definition of nostalgia
It was a good idea with no support from third parties I really loved the os it was a very innovative one
A Windows Phone would be very cool to have
thought u said techno dad since i was far away 💀
Technoblade never dies
@@SurfsharkAcademyhe did
@@Brandondawidnahhhhh dawggggg 💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@Negawatt69420_ I got that dawg in me
@@Brandondawid💀💀
Just read the previews only. As the CEO that time was Steve Ballmer, he made a huge mistake to look down on iPhone & Android. Toonlate to enter the market. Based on that info, never bought any Windows phone. Also the interface was mase exactly the same as Windows8, which was cursed by Windows users. So, nah, not buying any.
Ballmer announced he was retiring and his net worth increases 770million in 6 hours of market trading. Thats how bad windows 8 and windows phone were.
My mom, yes… she introduced it to the hungarian shelfs. And she gave me one on release, i was a kid back then and i LOVED angry birds. this is a little story of mine.
I had 2, a Nokia Lumia 520, and a 1520. Loved them, was super sad to lose the 1520 after a trip to New York.
i had lumia 520 and put android on it, it is a brand new life but sadly its not developed anymore
I legit had one as a first phone. Barely any apps, but good enough as a starter at 10
1000 million? 1 billion.
I loved my Microsoft phone, it works really fast, the battery still holds the charge for a long time and the camera quality is great
I had couple of them. I loved it, especially WP8. Sad they gave up on it, probably with Win10 had they sticked bit longer it might have been better. Now i m stuck with Android or iOS.
I really loved the Metro UI and even created Hotmail when using galaxy fame in 2014 just to buy and use Lumia phones in future...but things never happened 😢
Fun fact: This was also based on Windows NT. The last version was Windows Phone 10.
Except Windows Phone 7, which was Windows CE.
Even i remember getting a windows Phone in 2015 but now started using iphone
I have a broken lumia 435. I’m planning to bring it to the repair shop to fix the power button but i forgot where’d i put it. That phone was great tho, even have a low specs, it was good for Asphalt 8 and NFS Hot pursuit
How do you break the chicken and egg problem? No apps because no users and no users because no apps.
And the fact that Steve Ballmer underestimated the iPhone didn’t help matters and Windows Mobile was starting to look outdated.
Windows phone was my best phone experience 🎉
Had Lumia 610 as replacement phone. Even if it was made in my homeland, I was shocked how awful the single core and Windows Phone combined at the time was, that I did almost anything to get my precious HTC Desire Z back.
Anyone remember?.. Symbian OS ❤
My first phone was an S2, then an S9, then the current one, an A54, all Samsungs.
Windows would be amazig for gaming
Windows phone is the worst user experience. The most intolerable is when you tap on a person on a contact list, it syraight away call that person. It irritates me as I wanted to copy a person number but always ended up calling that person.
I didn't own a Windows Phone, but my first smartphone was a Nokia with Symbian installed, that OS was also pretty weak with the amount of apps available on it.
I now own 2 Windows phones. They're so cool when you can find sofware for them. WP8 and WP8.1 can't install custom apps.
Nothing but windows phone for as long as it was supported here 🙏
My dad used to own one. It's great, but as you said there are a few games.
I owned one and still miss it Lumia 720, would do anything to buy one again,❤❤❤
I recently uptaded my wp 920 to win10.
There was one (1) game available on microsoft store.. bootleg copy of temple run.
I have to spoof the phone think it was an 950 to be able to download uptades.. supricingly the uptade services are still running
I had an iPad before with win os on it
Me believing that the windows phone could run executables same as a computer
I had a Nokia Lumia 520. Generally, when somebody had a Windows phone the performance and software support was lackluster. The UI was very good, but since it was based on Windows NT of the time, it felt more disconnected from the outside world than your Android phone for your iphone, because Windows wasn't exactly programmed to have constant background checks and weather service plugins on your home screen. The Windows phone definitely had more potential than was realized, but it was executed poorly.
Lumia 1020 i owned in 2010. It was eye catcher ❤
I dont remember the model, but it had a horizontal oval for a camera frame, and it was my first ever phone. Its screen was literally not even glass. IT WAS PLASTIC
I am writing this with my nokia lumia 1320 , it isn't dead yet
At the same time, they were late for the trend, which is the reason why it died right away
I had a lumia 640xl… man that wrere bad times
Tbh, Windows phones with Subsystem for Android could honestly make a comeback. But I doubt it.
Nokia Lumias were so fire, they also had an extremely modern UI for their time.
I actually owned a windows phone in 2020 which broke months later. But now I have a Samsung Galaxy J3
I bought a Nokia Lumia 520 for $39 and used it as an iPod to stream music from my OneDrive using the Groove app via WiFi. I never did activate its SIM card.
I had a Windows phone and it was prepaid it only lasted a day maybe two then stopped working all together.
I had one it looked great and the camera was amazing for the time
Tho apart from being so few apps what apps it did had were like all paid
I owned one. Hated it. It needed me to connect to a PC to install ringtones.i had already used Android before so I knew that wasn't an issue there nor on my feature phone before. I switched to Android and never looked back
It was more expensive from a numpad phone back then.
Windows phone reminded me of Trevor's phone from GTA V
i had 2 windows phone 610 and one 830 xl if i remember wel. i remember those mising apps but i had a problem with the speaker had to get another phone i took a step to android
My father owned one then 1-2 years later, It disappeared.
i like the hp elite windows phone, had use it in work before, you can dock it and you had excel and word, at best you can dual boot.😊
Ngl the entirety of metro UI could’ve been something if it wasn’t tied to Microsoft messing up products
Zune
The Xbox one (before the Kinect debundle)
Bro got an L
It would work if they put Windows Subsystem for Android on the Windows phone and let you install APKs.
The interface was really ahead of its time, but the underlying operating system was, well, Windows.
My mom owned one and i got the windows phone but it disappeared out of nowhere
My grandma had 2 of them!!! ❤❤❤
I had 2 windows phones. The Nokia one and one that slides with buttons
I remembering being so desperate to buy the Samsung window phone 😅 so glad I bought a note that time
I always wanted the windows phone to take off but alas
I had lumia 820 and 730 both were good the problem was apps hardware wise great phone
I loved my windows phone
I think this is sadly how most tech innovations die. Someone creates a new OS or something that is genuinely better than what's already out there and nobody wants to make apps for it because "it's too much work to make apps for another OS". It's like the thing about Fortnite and Linux. Epic says they won't make a Linux version of Fortnite because " there enough Linux players to justify it", but what if there aren't many Linux gamers because Epic won't release Fortnite on Linux? Same goes for the Windows Phone. I don't think it was Microsoft's fault that it died off. I think yhe fault lies on the app developers who refused to make Windows Phone apps. Kinda makes me wonder if Google and Apple are involved somehow just so they can keep their marketshares.
For his time, it was overkill in everything, y mean 50 MP camera
The windows phone was ok. My mom had one when i was really young. She gave it to me when she a got a new phone, and i kid you not, i threw it in the trash one night because all of sudden the thing wouldnt stop beeping and making wierd ass sounds. Found out later that it was a really wierd virus. Those things had no protection.
I never had a windows phone before
I still frickin have my moms windows phone and it still works
Still miss mine
I miss Windows Phone so bad, you have no idea.
Minecraft and Asphalt, not bad. Best part is how the apps are the same ones that run on Windows desktop
I hate Windows and use Linux or Freebsd as a rule, but I also owned two Winphones and actually like them. They actually had more apps than I needed and what they had they did it reasonably well. In any case, I preferred them over Android and I have never bought into the Apple ecosystem.
No they made windows phone in 2000 i heared like that
Bro said 1000 milion except of billion
Ive had 3 i lvoed them yeah app support sucked but they were great for texting and calling and my mobile hotspot i always had an android just incase i needed a game or whatever
Microsoft was a bit too greedy and charged developers more than what google or apple would to release an app (as I was told, honestly I wouldn’t be surprised)
One time my grandma had an windows phone
And she got so mad on it that she threw it in an stove and baked it until the battery exploded lol
I think windows phones would work now in this time because there aren't any more surprising applications left on Google Play Store 😂😂
It would be an interesting concept for sure, I wonder how it would fare in todays world!
I had it and love it, its wey better then android and apple but app thing wad true, wish it get back and support android app, will buy it again then
I had a Windows phone when I was in middle school it was the worst phone I ever had
It would die *9* years later, not 6.
Microsoft were just too late to the game with a brilliantly designed U.I. but silly restrictions thrown at manufacturers and developers. Apple were first in, developers rushed to get their software on the app store. Google already had a handset ready to go head to head with the Windows Mobile, they took one look at the iPhone launch event and immediately tore up their original plans - they saw what they wanted and went for it. Android had way less restrictions for manufacturers and developers, plus they took way less revenue from developers.
Windows Phone was the most optimized mobile OS I've ever seen, so sad it is useless nowadays...
My dad used to own an Nokia windows phone. I remember it nicely
Me how have installed windows 11 arm on dual boot, seams a complete win
Still using my microsoft 950 and lg g6.
Imagine if they did things right... Maybe by this time Continuum would be full fleg desktop pc (windows on arm)
My dad a windows phone and it had play Store on it and so I was able to install all the games and apps