Comment by anthropodie
2 years ago
> They thought they couldn't build hardware good enough to compete with other Android makers,
But that is so wrong. Hardware was their strength. They could've sticked to what they knew best and over time do what's necessary.
It seems you never tried a windows phone.
They were slow. Really slow. Typing was so slow. Opening the camera app even more so.
This is not true. In fact if you actually go back and read the articles on it, one of the strengths was how responsive it was on hardware that was much weaker then what android needed. It has its problems but you are literally taking it's strength and pretending it was a flaw 0_o
I had one. I know first hand.
Owned most Lumia models, Android were even slower.
Starting with Window Phone 8 everything was native code, even .NET, while on Android the first Dalvik versions didn't even had a JIT.