Comment by pmontra
8 years ago
> We have tried VERY HARD to incent app devs. Paid money.. wrote apps 4 them.. but volume of users is too low for most companies to invest.
The problem is that no customer I knew was keen to have to pay for the same app three times. Android and iOS cost enough money. Windows Mobile only choice would be to overcome one of those two platforms quickly, but it started the race way too late. Everybody was hoping it died quickly. A market split evenly in 3 would be a budget nightmare.
However let me say that only one platform would be unhealthy. Nothing good comes from mono cultures, as IE demonstrated after winning the browser wars some 15 years ago.
Now we have two garbage GUIs without pressure to improve. More competition is better!
Hey, PalmOS was there early and with a decent UI. But the hardware was not up to the task.
It's really a pity that no one interested in mobile picked up Palm. HP - what did they do with it other than throw it away?
HP did a cheap tablet give away :P.