++ the future of Microsoft Lumia mobile phones ++

+  you have to pay attention, there are still fans of the Lumia line inside Microsoft (just to be there, they have sold in this year some Lumias testing the fan base).

You mean the couple of hundred 650s which someone found lying forgotten in a warehouse ? There no fans, there are no developers left, the whole team was sacked a year ago, there is just a skeleton crew fixing bugs.

+There are chances that the Lumia 950s could run full Windows 10 OS

Absolute, complete and utter total nonsense.

93tid has a point. Before anyone says, "Microsoft should fork Android and make an Android based Microsoft OS for phones," a couple of things should be clear.

1. While a lot of us (including me) are down for this, how many of us make up this number? A couple hundred to maybe a couple thousand folks. But what about the millions out there that want something that can be used there and then? They have it. iOS and Android are satisfying their needs. It's a small group vs a much larger one in which many people are not really into operating systems as much as us. They just want phones to do what they want them to do.
2. Is the investment worth it? Money needs to be spent for this and with all that is happening now, people are trying to save. I hear of Project Latte which intends to bring Android apps to the Microsoft Store. But how lucrative will that be? Money has to be invested to repackage apps without Google Play Services. But how much of the masses (excluding us) will go for that? How many devs will be on board with that? Apps were made for small screens, who will pay to repackage them for larger screens? Again people are trying to save and will only invest in places where they will receive profits. Money talks.

There is more but the post will be too long. I am not telling anyone to stop using Windows phones or stop liking the product. We can all give our suggestions. We can even hope. But if the numbers and financial records and stats and trends show otherwise, Microsoft and other developers won't make plans to bring out what we would like where Windows phones and a Microsoft smartphone OS are concerned.

A very well-reasoned reply.

I'd like to add that I held on to my WINDOWS phone as long as I could, but finally switched to Android when too many apps that I needed were no longer supported on the MS side.

As far as an MS fork of Android goes, I doubt it. For my part, the MS Office suite available on Android as well as the TEAMS app, all combined with OneDrive, means that I can do work more or less interchangeably on my phone or laptop and can go back and forth quite a bit on my iPad as well.

If the apps tied to cloud storage allow me to essentially work independent of platform as I can do today, I think it unlikely that I'll feel a strong pull to be a pioneer for MS especially as they've burned me too many times in the past with OS pipe dreams.

When I'm going to acquire a real android phone? Lumia is my only smartphone with camera. To run my Mobile Bank app, I'm using an android emulator at Windows 7 laptop. Guess I can survive with that.

I am still using my Windows phone. Many of the things I need still work. I don't need all those other apps as yet. While I do have an Android phone, I only use it for Facebook and WhatsApp. Nothing else. If and when I need those other apps, I will switch but to a better Android phone. I am good at the moment.