Comment by acdha
8 years ago
> they focused on all the wrong things, like porting to NT kernel and building an OS that could support limited memory.
I think it’s easy for us to focus on software but I don’t think any of that mattered compared to failing so badly on the hardware side. Over that period, how many weeks were there where they had phone hardware which was competitive with Android, much less iOS? It seemed like every time I saw it mentioned the cycle was “<software feature> looks cool but the phone specs are like my old phone”.
That was one of the little gems of Windows Phone. It could do what your current generation Android/Apple phone could do on previous generation hardware.
WP hardware was dirt cheap because of it.