From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 16:40 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), John Dallman wrote:   
      
   > In article <10e0omq$n2t$14@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence   
   > D_Oliveiro) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Remember Windows Phone? Microsoft was actually paying developers to put   
   >> apps on its platform. But in its user experience it was trying too much   
   >> to ape Apple, which is why it lost out to Android.   
   >   
   > That wasn't the problem. The difficulty was that people didn't actually   
   > want to use Windows Phone.   
      
   And why was that? Because of the user experience.   
      
   > Microsoft wanted the user experience to be like desktop Windows, but   
   > since doing that directly was clearly impractical, they changed Windows   
   > (at Windows 8) to be their idea of a phone OS.   
      
   The problem was, it wasn’t even a very good “phone OS”.   
      
   > Microsoft tried to get my employer to offer our toolkit libraries for   
   > WinRT and Windows RT.   
      
   The two were different things, you realize.   
      
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