It's a shame because I liked my windows phone. The only problem was the lack of app support that got me to jump ship back to android

there's no users because there's no apps because there are no users because there are no apps...

What about Symbian. That OS was very popular on phones

Reasons for Windows Phone's failure summed up: 1. Microsoft wanted to treat it like Windows of old with major updates once a year. It needed fast, iterative updates early as it was missing very key features of competing OSs like copy & paste and multi-tasking. 2. Charging for the OS when they were already far behind the leaders and thinking that would work - again, treating it like desktop Windows. 3. The app approval process was worse (slower, rejections for stupid crap) than Apple's but, stop me if I'm repeating myself here, you can't do that when you're starting out and massively behind. 4. Updates. Microsoft made such a big deal about how they could push updates out regardless of the phone and that ended up not being true. Not that it mattered with their glacial development cycles anyway. 5. Throwing money at the problem without understanding the problem. They bought Nokia's phone division while still charging other companies for the OS while owning a phone division that meant they could sell their own product for far less. That doesn't encourage competition, it kills it. 6. Probably the biggest single factor to me, and one that is rarely mentioned is how they treated early adopters like trash. They released a tiny phone OS on aged hardware in Windows Phone 7 which had no real upgrade path. To add future features like multitasking would mean an entire OS re-write that existing phones would not be compatible with. It'd be like Apple releasing an iPhone today and then releasing another next year that you couldn't upgrade your year-old phone to run. You need early adopters and most understand there will be issues but when the issue is "sorry, your phone is a dead-end product" less than a year after release it tends to work against you.

*Linus voice intro* video without Linus

I loved my Windows Phones and still think it had the best home screen of any mobile operating systems, besides hiding all games under the Xbox app (why they did that I will never know). Just a shame it was too late when it came out.

Fun fact, i used my Nokia Windows phone until this month (yes,2018), but i had to buy a droid cuz it broke. I actually didn't mind using it, and it was a fine phone. Only downside was the battery.. but then again, i could replace it with a new one. Shocking i know. I never was into the whole apps thing,i just wanted a video watching thing, music listening thing, phone calling thing and picture taking thingy. Windows phones were enough for me. UNTIL I DISCOVERED HOW MUCH BETTER ANDROID WAS. I wish i did earlier, but then again, only now you can buy a truly great phone. The early phones and OS versions were laggy and a bit messy from what i have seen.

One answer: “Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers”

Was a great system... Loved it. But Whatsapp was crap, many apps didnt exist and snapchat was only unofficially supported (called 6snap) and you got banned for using it all the time on snapchat :/

Before this year, I used to have a Windows Phone for 3 YEARS...and I actually I realy liked it, but it lacked app support...

Why Did Windows Phone Fail? Steve Ballmer.

they could have easily prevented this if win 10 mobile was a full featured variant of the base os, instead of the locked down garbage that's merely a restricted version of the base.

Microsoft have pretty much sabotaged every mobile operating system they have ever made by not properly supporting their mobile products with quality and plentiful apps :(

Microsoft literally destroyed Nokia

I miss my Lumia! I really miss phone Cortana!

don't even haver to play the video to simply say no apps video end

Windows phone was the best looking and engineered mobile OS I have seen in my life. Its too sad devs didn't jump on and Google got greedy.

I used a Microsoft Lumia 532 for about 2 years . It had Windows 8 or 8.1 I don't remember For its specs . (Classic outdated snapdragon and 1 GB of ram) it was very good . Fast , snappy . And it never caved . It was pleasant for browsing and everything was good . There was a Microsoft program for everything on this phone . Plus the speaker was really good . But... One day . Support for messenger was gone . Existence was pain after that . Everything started to become tougher . The store was empty . If there was support for Messenger I would buy a Windows Phone again . But since they lost that . I was done with Windows Phones and I was going to buy a new one . Then the charging port died . And I got a cheap Asus phone with the same specs . It's not even 1/2 of the performance and the speaker is mediocre at best . It's a shame ..

I used to have a 925, it was great but I sadly switched to a 'waterproof' sony

I loved windows phone from the beginning till the end with the hp elite x3 being my last before I upgraded to a Galaxy note 8. To say I was disappointed is a great understatement. But I just found out about a launcher called Launcher 10 which mimics the windows 10 mobile UI so incredibly close. It is even better than W10M cause of the extra customizability of android. Any ex windows phone users/lovers I highly recommend getting this launcher. It feels like I never left my favorite ecosystem.

My first and second smartphones were Lumias and I really liked the OS tbh. Nowdays I have the new android Nokia 3 but with Launcher 10 installed, a launcher that imitates windows phone interface

Microsoft was the leader in smartphones only if you don't consider Symbian. In my min smartphone before 2008 was a phone that can view and edit documents, browse web and instal proper apps and Symbian did all that.

My Dad is still currently using a RM 1109. Its great for him because he isn't keen to learning how to use and manage a regular phone OS, so the simple UI makes it easy to understand for him.

Smoothest segue ever. Jon, you keep getting better and better (at the whole video, not just the segue)

Watching this from my Lumia 930 with a cracked Lumia 800 still in my dearest memories. I guess I'm involuntarily a hipster now. Great.

My Lumia 920 is still working at this moment. Great phone but shortage of apps.

Hey, the Flip video recorder is great. They can be had for cheap on eBay, they use AA batteries in case the rechargeable one fails to work, and the quality is pretty good. I use them to provide additional camera angles at events and sports events.

Truth be told, my phone still impress friends and colleagues from time to time, there's nothing like plugin your phone with Continuum and start using Office, just like that. I was a bit angry when i heard they killed it, 3rd party support was either inexistant or straight up bad, but the phone itself was self-sufficient for work related stuff.

Windows Phone was great. It failed because lack of developer support.

windows phone initially had a lot of developer support and phone makers interested, but Microsoft decided to be a jackass thinking they could get away with OS updates which left early adopters hanging and ruined app support all so it could mix it with desktop windows

0:29 I still have a phone that my dad used running that AND IT STILL WORKS LOL

This is what I imagine it is like when you hand an intern Linus's script and hold a gun to his head

Quick Answer: App Support

I had a Widows Phone and it was everything great except for the apps availability, I remember wanting to install certain games I not finding them only finding cheap copys

man i remember having the first windows phone the kin so awesome :D would sit right next to my windows mp3 device the zune

Windows Mobile (the old one before the iPhone) is very business oriented when it comes to features and capabilities and it's UI relies on a stylus. I know. I used and own 3 devices like these with one still working fine today.

Say what you will about LTT, but at least they figured out that Windows CE/Mobile existed and didn't parrot the "late to market" nonsense that has essentially become a meme. It's hard to believe the Nokia buyout was in 2014. Feels like it's been far longer.

My windows phone had arguably the best selfie camera on a phone at the time but not Instagram or things like that to post said selfies. It was really good for managing organizations Exchange, outlook, Office 365 etc.

how you didnt mention the role of samsung in windows phone? when microsoft adquierd nokia, samsung got really angry at the point they didnt want to meet people from microsoft anymore. that was an important factor that made microsoft sell nokia again. (read that in the Satya Nadella's book)

I don't know how it all happened! I had Nokia Lumia 925 in 2014 and it was a better phone than many devices I owned later. Windows was better in many areas in 2014 than Android is now. Obviously there were some shortcomings, but I would still love to have a windows phone over am Android. I moved to Android only because after 925 there wasn't any other windows phone. Sure there was 930, but I never felt upgrading my 925 to 930. And it all ended then and there. I am not as satisfied with Android as I was with Nokia Lumia, when with all these apps and customisation. Windows was the right solution for me, except for a few apps which never bothered me that much. Windows mail app was as good as Gmail app, if not better, KZfaq didn't have any ads, Facebook had the best integration with the entire phone, WhatsApp was way smoother, Nokia music was the best music player and I could download thousands of songs for free which went DRM protected. How the hell am I using an Android phone? I never felt the same level of sophistication and ease on Android as I felt on windows. Really a tragedy.

I wanted to believe in Windows Phone, but alas...

*FLIP CAMERAS ARE LIT AND I WILL DEFEND THEM TO THE DEATH!!!*

I really like Jon in these videos, Always nice to see him progressing within LMG

I've been using a Lumia 735 for years now. I bought one near launch, busted the screen dropping it down some stairs so got another for $20 second hand on eBay. The experience is pretty consistently sub par but they do still consistently get the job done, which is fairly remarkable for how cheap they are on the used market.

Windows Phone failed because it met a nokia in the street and decided to pick a fight.

Same thing can be said about Blackberry - failed to innovate and stay relevant

The KZfaq "app" just added a shortcut from the home screen to the browser.

*My first phone was a Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 610.* *I loved the design of the OS; I arranged my tiles in the shape of a robot. I remember showing people at school and they were impressed by it.* *I wish Windows phone came back because that tile screen was really unique and cool to look at.*

I had a Windows phone. I was both disappointed and satisfied at the same time. I was satisfied because the phone was really well compatible with the file explorer on the PC, i also liked the start menu. The bad side is that it doesn't have that many apps like on Android.

I wish we had a better choice other than Apple and Android. I’m sick of all the shady stuff.

Concise, on-point, clear and fast !! Amazingly made !! Thank you

liked to see someone other than Linus you can make a little series for tiny history/documentation bits for technologies n companies like this one

I used to have one it's because they had the crappiest performance among their pears and the smallest app selection not having many of the more popular apps... including youtube I think, if I remember correctly you had to basically just get a link and run it on the inbuilt browser, basically they were hot pieces of garbage all around... the GUI for app placement was pretty dope though, that I liked

i have a 5 years old microsoft lumia 535😥😥😥😥😥😥

Hey! The flip hd was amazing!

Hey I still love my flip camera!

I'm still using the Lumia 950 on windows phone 10… lol

I can't quite hear clearly for his accent.

Me and my mum bought our windows phones last year and they stopped working a month ago almost in the same week .I missed it a lot😣😣😣

The other huge problem was that Windows phone 7 had Zero backwards compatibility, had there been SOME ability to use existing apps (such as official Google apps) then they could've gotten devs more into the new architecture by WP8. Also the OG Windows Mobile was kept alive in embedded operations (like barcode scanners and such but even that is being superceded by Android)

No Devs = no apps = bare functionality

Still using a Lumia 640 XL LTE, great phone!

I miss my old lumia 635, still use it occasion as a backup phone and it's rly fast for it's specs

When windows phones stop getting supported will you still be able to use them or at least use them as a phone

Developers! Developers! Developers! - LOLOLOL

0:50 Why Symbian isn't on that chart? It definitely was one of the most popular smartphone operating systems at the time.

It's really a shame, because I thought the UI on Windows Phone in the later days of its existence was better than both iOS and Android and the way it integrated with the PC was seamless. Only reason I did eventually switch from Windows Phone was the lack of apps.

I had a Lumia 640XL and 950XL before moving back to Android. They had great features like iris scanning on 950XL, but the app gap ultimately killed the platform. Third-party app alternatives were available, but the support itself was unreliable. 😔

Give me phone with a full version of win 10 plz

What about Symbian?

The overall anesthetic of Windows Phone was amazing 📱👌

Still used for the commercial side, the bluebirds at work run windows.

Nokia: Reputation for being indestructable. Microsoft: *Hold my OS.*

Nokia was fine before Win Mobile :( The N900 even had Linux and it was great.

0:40 That was my phone back then, the T-Mobile Wing (or HTC Herald if you got it from other carriers). Funny thing is, when you whipped one of these out back then, some people use to give you crap like "oh look, Mr. Business needs to set up a meeting for the First National board of investors",,,,,,,,,,,,, when all you were doing is adding "2% milk" to your shopping list. Ohhhh, but now, just try and take away a kid's smartphone in class (family member is a teacher), they will physically fight you !

An important problem, maybe the most important, was the continuous change of the "format" of the app in a few years. Between Windows Phone 7 and Windows 10 Mobile (2010-2015) there were at least 4 different formats (Silverlight for Windows Phone 7, silverlight for 8 and 8.1, Runtime for 8.1 and apps for UWP in Windows 10, not counting Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows RT ) To get the most out of out apps, we had to rewrite apps for the next generation or leave them backwards-compatible (without the ability to use new APIs) In Europe, Windows Phone achieved a very important market share, significantly exceeding iOS in many regions, but in these regions, even local companies continued to ignore Windows Phone for the development of their app, even if the potential customers were numerous (and still are in the UWP, but in a different way).

I just got ad about strawberry scented credit cards before this video

That's a simple question. It failed because people could see through it.

I owned a Nokia Windows Phone for 2014-16, it did indeed have little device support, especially compared to my iPad which I also had at the time.

What is your resourcea for the desktop OS share?!

Reasons to bring back Windows phone: -Windows App Store has lotsa old Roms (like from N64, Gameboy etc) than can directly be played without extra emulator

They bought Nokia, failed. ...but what about surface? How about a Surface Phone? Hmm? HMM?

I liked the live tiles, basic info of the app at a glance. I should check if android has something similar.

Those flip cameras were lit

I still have a Windows Phone (Lumia 640), and my next phone will be still a WP, even if it's unsupported (Lumia 940/950 or Alcatel Idol 4S maybe). I'm never going to touch Android again, neither iPhone. I wish I would have more choices...

Is it me or does he always talk through his nose? ^^

Had a windows phone once, never again

I had a windows phone for a little bit and to be honest it was pretty good for what i was using it for, the file explorer worked well when i was storing documents and downloading music and videos. But the fact that it didn't have snapchat, instagram, a dedicated youtube app and the music app wasn't the best thing in the world i decided against it. But it is really good for productivity not having those apps on there frees you from so much distraction when you are working while my iphone has all the apps and i have no self control.

Dudes voice kills me.

I had a windows phone lol

So my first and second smartphones were Windows Phones, and I had the second one up until this year. However, because that one was pretty much bricked because of a software issue, I decided to get something else. After upgrading to a Galaxy S9+, I never knew what I had missed out on until then.

I hope UWP becomes popular enough that a future attempt at a Windows phone becomes successful because as a person who up until the Note 8 release had a Windows phone and enjoyed it want a new Windows experience on mobile.

non-tech business analyst will never know this. do you know that windows mobile OS had more market cap than iOS in china, italy, U.K and some other countries back then ? do you know that windows mobile has the first maps that is able to navigate you offline in smartphone industry ? admit it, windows mobile was also supporting your update waaay better than android back in the day. if you still have windows mobile, open your phone, you can still find your most important apps there, like uber. microsoft did not ruin nokia. Nokia already fell on its own knees for its own stubbornness. (check ColdFusion take on Nokia) Microsoft reinvented Nokia, they were actually pretty successful. if Microsoft can keep the lower than competition Bing's market cap and profit, no one has any idea why Microsoft just dumped Windows mobile while it could be the 3rd or even 2nd most popular mobile OS.

A R T I C U L A T E.....Seriously 1:23 "which phone owedah mishmash." I think you were looking for "out of that"

I'm assuming those are 2007 US marketshare numbers because I'm pretty sure Symbian OS dominated the overall smartphone market at the time. Nokia, Sony-Erricson, Siemens/BenQ, and even Samsung all produced Symbian based phone models. I had to import my first 3 Symbian phones due to there being zero availability in Canada at the time. My last three, the N95, N8, and E7 were finally available, factory unlocked, from Tiger Direct.

Last time I checked Google services license (Play store, gmail & the rest) wasn't free for phone manufacturers.

The fact that MS killed Windows Phone made me quite angry. So angry that I don't like Microsoft anymore.

The more important question is... "Why the heck did I buy one?"

I had a Windows Phone for a few years and it was great in version 8.1. Very fast, snappy OS, even on the mid range hardware. Extremely efficient on battery. White letters on black as default was definitely the way to go. The apps made by Nokia were just great. The upgrade to Windows Phone 10 fucked up all apps and in some cases we waited for weeks for some apps to be fixed. Some great apps were removed by the update. I don't understand why so few people didn't even bother to give this system a go when it was on the rise. We missed out on actually having some competition on the market.

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