442
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
442 points (94.4% liked)
Damn, that's interesting!
5339 readers
1 users here now
- No clickbait
- No Racism and Hate speech
- No Imgur Gallery Links
- No Infographics
- Moderator Discretion
- Repost Guidelines
- No videos over 15 minutes long
- No "Photoshopped" posts
- Image w/ text posts must be sourced in comments
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Such a shame. Windows phones were actually really good and the developer experience was pretty awesome.
And after a while, they would've turned to shit as well.
They just had one massive problem: no apps
I think one big issue was no Google apps. So no YouTube. And Google was ruining the 3rd party apps for Youtube that were really good too. So that might've not been solved with time
I had one too, I really liked it. Only problems I ran into were things like credit card readers not working because the apps didn’t have the same access to hardware that they had on other devices. Otherwise I definitely preferred it over android.
Don’t you usually have external hardware for credit card readers anyway?
Now days yeah but back then the only cheap option were the ones that plugged into the headphone jack. So the software needed to be able to access the mic line from the headphone jack and it couldn’t do that on windows phone.
I actually really liked them. I was super excited to see what they would do with it once they bought Nokia to have that tight hardware control like iPhone/Pixel. Just a little bit head of its time in certain ways