[Info-vax] RMS intro

[John Dallman]

In article <un7652$3pjg7$3 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:

> I don't know hos much he was thinking about "the Windows Phone 8
> code base" versus just "a MS OS for phones".
> 
> But what I heard from most WP users back then was that they
> actually liked the UI.

Experienced Windows users often did. The majority of Android devices in
the world, and a very large chunk of the iPhones, are used by people who
haven't used any other kind of computing device, and thus aren't familiar
with Windows. 

> What made many of them drop WP was the lack of apps. The WP
> apps eco-system could not compete with the gazillion
> iOS and Android apps.
> 
> Companies only developed apps for iOS and Android, because there 
> were too few WP users. And there were too few WP users because 
> companies only developed apps for iOS and Android.

Microsoft tried to apply pressure to ISVs that had significant Windows
products to put them onto Windows Phone. However, they didn't do this
selectively, they just assumed everyone was after the personal apps
market because they were. My experience of this was that they were
annoyingly persistent about trying to get us to do things that didn't
make any business sense. 

John