Comment by toast0
8 years ago
The lack of apps was annoying at time, but what made me leave was probably Microsoft Edge. The rendering was clearly better than IE, but Edge would crash my phone, or become non responsive, or both so often (creators update on Lumia 640 LTE). If the browser doesn't work, and there are no apps, it doesn't make sense to have the phone.
I don't understand why Microsoft has keep IE/Edge around. It's just embarrassing. Event my technology illiterate friends and family rag on IE and everyone installs chrome these days. If they spend less time building IE and focused on other platforms they'd waste a lot less time for everyone including themselves.
They need it for the same reason Apple needs Safari. And why the European Union needs their GPS competitor Galileo. It's dangerous to put all your trust into a tool controlled by a competitor, even if they are playing nice with you at the moment.
Well, when Mozilla wanted to build Firefox for Windows Mobile, Microsoft told them no. If they removed IE/Edge, they would have no browser for the deployed windows mobile devices. :P
They need something built into the OS that supports HTML/HTML5, its what a lot of system interfaces and apps especially internet based ones like to be build from.
Plus how would you download another windows browser - it would have to be in the app store first lol.