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		jccalhoun on April 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed? there were a lot of problems. One that hasn't been mentioned is that MS's idea of Windows Phone was that all the apps would match the OS's design. A lot of big companies did not want to do that.

ygra on April 7, 2019 [–]

As a user I have to say I did want that. Windows Phone peaked with WP8 though, IMHO. W10M has always been weirdly buggy, inconsistent and not performing as well.

I guess the two API and forced hardware changes did most to cement its demise.

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