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A friend of mine used to work on the Windows Phone team; He got over my pointing out a few years ago that the windows phone was dead. We were talking via Skype messenger yesterday in between calls. We hadn’t connected for a couple of months, so it was nice to catch up. During the conversation, we did come back to a conversation we have been having now for more than ten years. The Maginot line in development. When we consider the historical impact of the Maginot line in France, it was designed so that to borrow the Monty Python line, “None shall pass.” None did pass through the Maginot Line, but ultimately it was a failure because you could go around the line.
When you are building a new thing, there at times in the process is a Maginot line. Something that no matter what you are not going to be able to get through so you start looking for what is called workarounds. A workaround is a term that means how can we do what we want to do, without going through that impregnatable line in front of us. We started talking about why the Windows Phone (and the Zune) failed. It wasn’t from failing to have good hardware or software. It wasn’t from having a lack of features. It wasn’t from having an unfamiliar interface. In the end, the Windows phone ran into two different Maginot lines and didn’t move around either.
The first one changed the mobile world forever, not just killing the pocket pc phone. Yes, the PPC phone was market-dominant in 2007. By November of that year standing on a stage, Steve Jobs seized the mobile phone market by its ear. The PocketPC phone remained the stop selling the phone through the end of 2007. But June 2008 saw the iPhone become the top-selling device. That was the first Maginot line that forced Microsoft to release the Windows Phone and kill the PocketPC phone. They had to go around a wall that stayed bigger and stronger. The second wall or Maginot line for the Windows Phone was the Android OS release. Android was cheaper, and in the end, drove the Windows phone out of the market. There was no way around the Android Maginot line.
The reality of the cellular phone market is to adapt or fail. Sadly the windows phone full of promise was not able to attempt twice.
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Do you own a cell phone?
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windows phone?
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Thank you for another magnificent article.
thank you for the kind words. What phone do you use?
I am using android phone….:-)
thanks – I hope you like the phone!
yups…I need your help regarding this issue I know it’s not related to your post but I hope to get some solution from your side..Actually I am also facing some issues with posting on Virily. Yesterday my post was approved by Editor but not showing in my posts’ section. It’s on drafts I don’t know what is the reason behind it..Please help me …Thanks.
if it is in your drafts than the edits rejected it. I would check the post and make sure it doesn’t have anything against the Virily rules (click the more button on the top of the page and check FAQ.)
But I got the notification that my post was approved by Virily Editor. What was that?
there are many editors, one approved it, the other didn’t
Ohh..but I wrote as per guidelines….I thought it’s very tough to survive here on Virily without posts… Feeling Sad…:(
Moreover there is option to edit drafts posts..I can’t rewrite the post…I wasted my blogging time here…Plz help me…
Moreover there is no option to edit drafts posts..I can’t rewrite the post…I wasted my blogging time here…Plz help me…
your best path forward is to send a message to the admin team of the site.
support@virily.com
I have the same views in the system as you do. The admins may be able to help you quickly!
Sure… Thanks for your valuable help…
please let me know if you do not hear anything back from them!
I will let you know about the reply..
I just got a smart phone a couple weeks ago, Samsung Galaxy A10e. I can`t seem to get many apps to load, why? I am with verizon. Help me???
i am happy to help. First, congrats smart phones are awesome! (samsung is good!)
did you setup the phone with your gmail?
Yes, however it refuses to install hangouts. Instagram, facebook msg.
Interesting.
well the easy answer is hard reset the phone and try it a second time.
troubleshooting it will be easier if you go to vanilla (plan) and load those apps first.
Vanilla? LOL. you talk over my head.
i am so sorry, vanilla is a technical term meaning nothing installed but what came with the phone originally.
plain
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Q: DO YOU OWN A CELL PHONE?
Yes (8 votes) – 100%
Q: APPLE IPHONE?
Yes (2 votes) – 25%
No (6 votes) – 75%
Q: ANDROID PHONE?
Yes (5 votes) – 71%
No (2 votes) – 29%
Q: SYMBIAN PHONE?
No (8 votes) – 100%
Q: WINDOWS PHONE?
No (7 votes) – 100%
Interestingly the market split is almost reflected in the Virily community.
40% Apple phones
56% Android phones
our split is 2/7 or 28% apple phones!
I use my phone for everything calls Internet ,guitar tuner. . . Count my steps.
I do as well, not sure what I would do without my phone!
Well in the Orthodox Jewish religion, we turn off all our electrical equipment from Sundown Friday to Sundown Saturday. So I live 1/7 of my life without the cellphone. It is not too bad, you know. I actually have to read a paper book!!!!
i do that one weekend every month. I turn off my phone. I blog in the am, but from noon to midnight I don’t do electronics!
Good work. We have to liberate ourselves from the electronics so that we can enjoy the nature.
i walk outside every single day with my dog!
I have a smartphone, dear friend … what is a windows phone like?
It has the windows interface (close to) looks like windows 10 on a phone which, it is.
You know me …. I have no idea what this is about, dear friend
it looked like your computer, on your phone.
It’s much clearer to me now … thank you, my friend
I’ve never heard of a Windows phone. I have a smartphone that has quite a few useful features.
they really struggled in the market. Apple and Android crushed them!
Love my Apple iPhone. Never had a Windows phone. Very pleased with my phone and the camera.
i remember the day I switched to the iphone. it is without a bet the best phone for me!
I have an Apple phone, and I use it for making calls and playing some games.
I play games on mine as welL!
Camera, internet and nice battery is all I need
i remember when the phone was it.
then the phone and camera.
Then phone, camera, and GPS
then 2 g was too slow
3g was too slow and so it goes.
Back in the day, the ones with flashlight seemed super cool to me. I never had one with flashlight until I got a smartphone. The first feature of smartphones that impressed me was that I can finally have a flashlight. 😀
i remember that change! amazing how much we have now in that phone!
That is so true, the competition is so heavy their you really need to come up with outstanding features to exist in the market. The smart phone market is right now saturated with so many player and there are so many options for customers.
there are really a growing number – i suspect in the next 2-3 years you will see the market shrink a little.
I think so too, there will be better toys I guess.
the change that 5g represents is massive. In the next 4 years everything is going to change.
I have a phone and I just use it to make calls!
i use mine for everything. music, phone, calendar