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That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit (www.theregister.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I agree.

The main incentive twirled around UWP mentality, “Write one app that works on Windows, WP and Xbox automagically”.

I think it was a fucking-a-star idea that could gather fresh developers to a big potential userbase. And surprisingly, it worked for a time as well.

But MS again cold-feeted the platform themselves in a short span and scared everyone.

I actually witnessed many brilliant developers wrote their very first C# code with UWP, only to spin out to other platforms later as WinPhone’s apparent neglect. PocketCasts and Flipboard are two that went very successful on other platforms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Not to mention that MS completely changed their development tools and libraries more than once if I remember properly.