@SwiftOnSecurity For me it was that I felt that the iPhone was too expensive but I was sick and tired of Android after having worked with Android security and seen too much of the sausage inside.
I liked Windows Phone. A shame it was discontinued.
@SwiftOnSecurity I had one, briefly, honestly I have no idea what happened to it but I was writing a lot of C# and .NET stuff at the time so it was handy that I could chuck it onto a phone.
Lots of the support was directly emailing team leads at Microsoft. There was no way they had thought through how to make it sustainable.
I liked the keyboard, and got into a lot of dev settings to make it work, but the app support was just too poor. The butchered 10 rollout was a clear sign it was dead.
@SwiftOnSecurity I think it’s easy to forget how comically bad Android was when Windows Phone came out. And iOS’s early UI wasn’t for everyone— Windows Phone had a compelling and attractive UI. I still think that declaring the device Windows was silly because Microsoft had made something very distinct and new and the Windows lineage was highly technical (like the Xbox). I had a Luma 920 and random people would ask me what it was because it looked so interesting and were shocked when I said it was Windows Phone.
I didn’t switch over to iOS until iOS 7 with the UI refresh (when everyone else had finally given up) and it didn’t really feel good to me until the iPhone X brought gesture control.
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I still use my Lumia 930 as an offline device to take videos or pictures on the job. Therefore it is good.
It always surprised me what's NOT possible to do with this smart phone.
My Android phones I've bought after the Lumias did the opposite. They surprised my what's possible with a phone :D
@SwiftOnSecurity I loved #windowsphone. Awesome, modern and consistent UI. Tiles were something unique since they combined widgets and icons. It is a shame that we’re left with Android and iOS duopoly now.
@SwiftOnSecurity Don't remember me on that dark hour when Microsoft announced the end. What do we have today? A desert. Either stagnation Apple with thinner frames through great titanium but still the UI of the day before yesterday, or Google (Android) with the clear goal of data collection until the doctor comes, uh the regulator. What a shame Microsoft.
@SwiftOnSecurity I quite enjoyed my time with Windows Phone. (Zune was always superior to iPod anyway.) But I also only bought the 'flagship' business-focused hardware. Didn't hurt that the Lumia 950 actually had a replaceable battery.
@rootwyrm@SwiftOnSecurity Even the cheap ones worked great. My boss had a Lumia 620 (IIRC – it was one of the cheapest phones on the market), and the interface never stuttered.
@jernej__s@SwiftOnSecurity yeah; since I REALLY don't use my phone for 'gaming' or anything like that, the lack of Candy Crush or whatever didn't bug me. It had excellent calling, SMS, email, and calendaring.
@rootwyrm@SwiftOnSecurity IMHO, it had by far the best mobile interface. My mother used Lumia 920 for a long time – it was much more user-friendly than Pixel she uses now.
@SwiftOnSecurity bought one for the reason of it being not as expensive as apple and knowing what I get because the androids of the time where hit and miss what the vendor would do with it
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