[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/5/2024 10:27 AM, John Dallman wrote:
> 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.

True.

But there are still around a billion people with Windows experience.

>> 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.

Sound to me like someone at MS really didn't understand the phone
app market.

Most of the critical apps does not even come from ISV's. They
come from companies offering non-software services that can
be delivered via app. Google search, bank, weather service,
grocery shop, Facebook etc..

Arne