Comment by pier25
8 years ago
I don't think the problem was primarily the lack of apps but a major reason to use Windows mobile.
With iOS you get the high end hardware and deep integration with Apple's ecosystem.
With Android you get deep integration with Google's services and a wide range of devices in prices and features.
What did you get with Windows mobile?
Performance at a low price point. I mentioned this elsewhere but when I was using a Windows phone, I'd buy $30-$50 windows phones and love them. When I eventually made the switch to a $40 Android phone is was borderline unusable so I had to pay for $300 Nexus.
I think that was the idea of Nokia. You get high end hardware with MS services.
But MS services weren’t as good years ago, and they didn’t have many apps, and they kept burning people by not letting them upgrade to a new major OS release.
> What did you get with Windows mobile?
From a consumer point of view, not much.
There's a lot there for businesses though. If you employ a bunch of .Net developers for your in-house applications, Windows Mobile is a pretty natural way get a mobile app developed.
The problem there is that a business has employees and those employees don't want to own Windows Phones personally and at the same time businesses don't want to provide each employee a company phone either.
But then, if there are bunch of .NET developers, there's Xamarin.
You got high-quality cameras on Nokia Lumia phones. Which apparently was not enough...