++ the future of Microsoft Lumia mobile phones ++

1.8m people is something you ignore at your own peril...

Follower numbers are meaningless, especially for a zombie account which hasn't tweeted anything since December 2016. People just can't be bothered to unfollow an account they've forgotten exists.

Its dead.

I'm not sure if you live in the USA, but over here they don't like unlocked Android phones too much unless it's a Samsung. Especially if they don't sell it themselves. Huawei is currently banned, I don't like Samsung or LG, the Asus phones look like toys or gadgets, and I don't know much about the others. I may be picky but I'm really looking for something like the Lumia 950 XL, the Nokia 9 Pureview I really, really like though. But I have no idea if my carrier will accept it for there's no way to check as you need the IMEI # and you only get that after you buy it.

The sad truth is that I'm likely to get the iPhone 12 Pro if it has usb-c, if not the iPhone 11 Pro as it will be cheaper then. And due to the lack of support from Microsoft (or Apple?) the iPhones don't sync with your Windows 10 PC like Androids do with the Your Phone App. So it's made me want a MacBook and someone is already offering to sell theirs to me (and it's a MacBook Pro). The Apple Watch 5 also looks nice (I always wanted the Microsoft Band 2 and hoped for a Band 3 but alas...). I miss Groove and don't like Spotify, but iTunes and Apple music looks good and...

Ok you seethe problem here, and I am being honest in the paragraph above. Apple is offering what I want from Microsoft and Microsoft isn't when it used too. It's weird considering I always dismissed Apple as overpriced and the hardware being weaker (the Home Pod sure is pricey though, my Invoke will do fine for now plus it sounds better to me), but now I'm actually considering converting over mostly. Mainly cause I like the ecosystem idea. My gaming PC and Xbox won't being go anywhere though. Neither Google nor Apple seem to be able to make a game console.

I understand why Windows 10 Mobile was discontinued. I just don't know why Microsoft gave up on Lumia. That to me is the big mistake. Lumia had powerful hardware, slap Android on some new ones and boom problem solved. Microsoft also could have created a launcher for Android with accessibility in mind.

Killing off the Lumia hardware also seemed to kill off groove music, and severely hurt the development of Cortana.

Cortana was/is a big coping skill for me. They really made her sound natural. And since it's basically the same character from halo, it's like I already had familiarity with her. She's funny and interactive and can sometimes make my day with a bad joke.

The death of Windows Mobile is unfortunate yes, but it's not an excuse to give up on many other things. I tried launcher10 on Android and it didn't help so it wasn't the live tiles that Windows Mobile had that made it more accessible (maybe some of it, but not on it's own). I use VLC on Android instead of groove but Cortana sucks on Android. The Microsoft Launcher is ok, but from Microsoft I expect better than ok. I really want to hear why Microsoft couldn't make Android phones running on Lumia hardware. Maybe a Surface phone similar to a normal smartphone design form will come about, eventually.

LOL on the dark and oui oui on the quotes, Szilard. :)

I hope you’re correct that Microsoft revamps WM, but I think it to be wishful thinking. Anything past this point would be beating a dead horse. All we have now is to speak of the history.

I perceive there’s a young gamer that has come on attempting to teach us, ahem, “older gents” a thing or two. I should hope he realizes that we’ve been using Windows OS in any edition and cell phones far longer than he’s been alive. :D Also, not sure about you, but working management in the construction industry I used a Motorola cellular bag phone with AT&T’s Illinois Bell service back in the late 80’s. Then onto the Motorola DynaTAC brick. Then onto a rugged Motorola I530 walkie talkie via NexTel and so on. Ahh! Those were the good old days. :)

Concerning the commercial app gap we’ve been speaking of; here’s an interesting article I found: https://thinkmobiles.com/blog/how-much-cost-make-app/ The price of those continue to rise as demand rises. Supply-demand-cost ratio. Very difficult to perform business these days without one. Almost a requirement, especially the with the younger generation.

So far as hardware > According to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone#By_manufacturer Nokia had the big chunk of the market in 2014. If I remember correctly, Nokia was the main company that offered Windows Mobile along with Android too, then Microsoft bought them, then it was strictly Windows. I think what really started the decline was that users started to buy up the cheap Asian phones with Android preinstalled. These were highly promoted by service providers in their stores. Lumias were on their store’s last page. It was about that time I purchased my first WM Lumia via Microsoft online store.

When companies started looking into purchasing tailored apps they looked at market stats and saw that rise of Asian Android phones. Some hesitated at investing in a Windows flavored app and held off. Of course, iCrap didn’t have the best stats either, but companies had to chase the money. The rich and upper middle class are the ones that purchased those originally. It absolutely irked me that I would look to find an app with no Windows flavor. If need be in emergency, I would simply use Edge browser, although a little difficult.

Which leads me to my last thoughts on the subject > Why did we need apps to begin with? Why not revamp needed web pages that caters to tapping fingers? After all, a cell phone is nothing but a mini computer that makes calls.

All in all, woulda > shoulda > coulda. I’m sure Paul Harvey has the rest of the story, but unfortunately, he is no longer with us. :(

Cheers