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   Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 00:04:39 JST Sexy Moon

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   @arcana @bot I knew multiple people that were hardcore windows phone lovers
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     @Moon @arcana @bot Me, and another friend of mine. It had a striking and consistent across apps text centric interface that kept you on task when it came to using your phone for communication.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 00:09:21 JST Sexy Moon

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     @guizzy @arcana @bot I believe what killed it was simply that it was too late to market. It was better but it wasn't good enough, and there was no way they could compete with the established apple and android marketplaces.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 00:18:01 JST Sexy Moon

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     @feld @arcana @bot saw this the other day
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 00:18:02 JST feld

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     @Moon @arcana @bot I am pretty sad that Windows Phone and Blackberry are dead, Palm Pre got fucked, Tizen never went anywhere, etc etc. We could use some more diversity and experimentation in the space.
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     guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 00:54:46 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     @Moon @arcana @bot I don't think it would have made a big difference if it had come earlier because the main issue is that consumers don't think "how does this enable me to be more productive" when they see a smartphone, they're wooed by capabilities they will never use (console quality 3D games) and approachable UI. If they did care about efficiency, it would have taken a lot longer for iOS and Android to displace old-school (pre-BB10) Blackberry. Outside of its stupid idiosyncraties (requiring BES/BIS) it was a productivity boost. Most people's smartphone are a productivity drain nowadays.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 00:56:51 JST Sexy Moon

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     @guizzy @arcana @bot oh sure I just mean maybe if they had some crazy innovative feature I can't even envision then maybe they could have launched late and won market share. purely hypothetical. android succeeded late to market because apple didn't sell a cheapass model.