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  • @edwardv4546
    @edwardv45467 сағат бұрын

    I wanted a Windows phone and an HTC phone so badly when i was younger. Couldn’t afford them.

  • @edincanada
    @edincanada9 сағат бұрын

    I remember a commercial for the windows phone with the slogan "A phone to save us from our phones". They thought the way forward would be with phones being less important in our lives, not more. Man, were they wrong.

  • @owencooktech
    @owencooktech7 сағат бұрын

    Yeah no kidding. It's hard to sell a product designed to be used less.

  • @bluecheckmiya
    @bluecheckmiya9 сағат бұрын

    I had a G5 when it was new i loved it. Their business model was quite... A choice indeed 😂

  • @owencooktech
    @owencooktech9 сағат бұрын

    Yeah totally. Weird phones for sure.

  • @Bojanmarsetic
    @Bojanmarsetic10 сағат бұрын

    The windows phone was the only microsoft product I was happy with.

  • @bluecheckmiya
    @bluecheckmiya10 сағат бұрын

    Man i remember these

  • @davekemp6573
    @davekemp657312 сағат бұрын

    I actually liked the windows phones with tiles... The HTC phones were the best thing going for a young tech guy back then

  • @KpopNiDontStop
    @KpopNiDontStop14 сағат бұрын

    Yea I remember how cool my friends 7 was until you realized the missing front camera made it goofy as hell for selfies or lives.

  • @LINKnator21
    @LINKnator2115 сағат бұрын

    I actually got a windows phone because it was a different look

  • @Mark-pr7ug
    @Mark-pr7ug17 сағат бұрын

    I never liked the look of it nor the interface.

  • @markkut5373
    @markkut537317 сағат бұрын

    I use once friend M$ phone and so shit phone i never b4 used, really crap

  • @Gungrave123
    @Gungrave12323 сағат бұрын

    cuz it was shit, more at 11

  • @shawnburge4978
    @shawnburge4978Күн бұрын

    It’s windows. What do you expect 😂

  • @DeyanKostov
    @DeyanKostovКүн бұрын

    I remember it differently. The OS was BAD. Buggy, ugly and clunky. The Windows 8 tiled UI was already hated on computers. The question is not why it failed. Mobile Windows failed 2 times before it. Microsoft writes shitty software that customers hate. No surprise they failed again. The real question is why the Nokia board of directors killed the company by shutting down their own promising OS? That could have been the 3rd player in the mobile market. Nokia bosses ignored their customers and their sales people who told them "These phones are not desirable. Nobody buys them. Give us the N9" Nope, they stuck with the Microsoft man Stephen Elop as CEO. It was painful to watch. Nokia went down from the biggest player to a dead brand. And they invented the smartphone and created a community of developers and partners around it. Shame, really...

  • @marklechman2225
    @marklechman2225Күн бұрын

    They were never very good at software either.

  • @khalidelgazzar
    @khalidelgazzarКүн бұрын

    Steve Balmer: King of strategic blunders.

  • @FalconsEye58094
    @FalconsEye58094Күн бұрын

    My father had a windows phone, he and I were talking on the phone once and while we were I was getting another call, FROM HIM, on the same phone he was using

  • @55tranquility
    @55tranquilityКүн бұрын

    I worked for a well know mobile network when the windows phone came out, it was terrible. Nobody wanted one and no apps worked on it.

  • @Accelerator26
    @Accelerator26Күн бұрын

    if only WIndows 10 Mobile can emulate x86 softwares from desktop, It'll be awesome.

  • @jukeofearl
    @jukeofearlКүн бұрын

    I really liked the windows phone UI. The phone had a ton of potential just lacked support. I used the Windows Phone launcher on Android for a while and it worked great cause Android had all the apps Windows Phone was missing. I thought the same thing as one of the other posters. If Microsoft had paid just a few of the big players to make apps the other guys would have probably got on board. It is a damn shame too, it would have been nice to have more options even if it would have been the Microsoft of today to deal with.

  • @kbyethx
    @kbyethx2 күн бұрын

    Great presentation - seems to gel with what I saw. Windows Phone was good, just late to the party. I kinda wish they’d kept going with it though. I’m also sad that Microsoft got out of retail. Oh well.

  • @iota-co7369
    @iota-co73692 күн бұрын

    Apple didn't win because they were stylish. they won because their products were better. The end.

  • @stephenhall3515
    @stephenhall35152 күн бұрын

    Very short on information and far too much ME, ME, ME.

  • @jeremywilliams5107
    @jeremywilliams51072 күн бұрын

    Still have mine. Would still be using it if MS hadn't killed the support.

  • @moochincrawdad
    @moochincrawdad2 күн бұрын

    I heard that the reason why it took Google a year to respond to the iPhone launch was because they already had a blackberry-like prototype that they were going to release to compete with Windows Mobile devices. As soon as they say the iPhone launch they scrapped their original plans and started to develop an iPhone-like Android device - the HTC Dream.

  • @pandaland1
    @pandaland12 күн бұрын

    8:18 I remember the days of the industry thinking more megapixels = better photos

  • @D.B.Cooper..
    @D.B.Cooper..2 күн бұрын

    I still remember my Nokia Lumia 720 bought in 2013 or 2014 and what a beauty it was... Such a lovely interface and look and felt exquisite.... Only thing is the Apps were too bad to ignore compared to Android...

  • @giovanni4151
    @giovanni41512 күн бұрын

    bro buy yourself a better microphone

  • @fikriarieska8450
    @fikriarieska84503 күн бұрын

    U underestimate the catastrophe they make with Kin (made by the bones n blood of devs remaining from dev of Sidekicks)

  • @scaryboowho7876
    @scaryboowho78763 күн бұрын

    I remembered when those phones came out. I personally thought it was bill gates trying to get at steve jobs and is why nobody bought the phone. I personally wanted one for my first phone, but no luck. I got a Samsung slider and then next iphone 4

  • @gejamugamlatsoomanam7716
    @gejamugamlatsoomanam77163 күн бұрын

    Xbox is also failing

  • @xbeta84
    @xbeta843 күн бұрын

    Honestly, after so many years, still miss the physical keyboard on the mobile phone. Even Apple admitting that and release iPad with keyboard.

  • @sirazul438
    @sirazul4383 күн бұрын

    nice video, keep going..and use some background or greenscreen then put something good it will make your video look better...try to copy some great video type..i mean video/background/capture etc.

  • @Appetite_For_Kill
    @Appetite_For_Kill3 күн бұрын

    Nice analysis 🤙 I had LG X screen way back in 2017 _🥴_

  • @blaisexrusso
    @blaisexrusso3 күн бұрын

    Bro switched his shirt like 5 times lol

  • @KazanKhan786
    @KazanKhan7863 күн бұрын

    I had a LG Stylus 2, it was a good phone. I miss LG phones. Most probably would have had an LG phone today if they didn't stop making cellphones.

  • @owencooktech
    @owencooktech3 күн бұрын

    That's sweet dude! It's really a shame they stopped production.

  • @barontaylor7139
    @barontaylor71393 күн бұрын

    The HTC Touch Pro 2 was supposed to have Windows or be Windows capable

  • @simon8863
    @simon88634 күн бұрын

    Back in the day I bought a 1020 instead of iPhone, I don’t regret

  • @ivanmorozov7772
    @ivanmorozov77724 күн бұрын

    You made a great video! Watched it with pleasure and natural curiosity. Thank you!

  • @TheGeoff
    @TheGeoff4 күн бұрын

    Being super into smart phones in the early days, my experience with LG is they had amazing concepts, but the execution was always lacking.

  • @owencooktech
    @owencooktech4 күн бұрын

    Yeah totally. LG phones where WILD dude.

  • @boyermchristopher1
    @boyermchristopher14 күн бұрын

    I absolutely loved Windows mobile.

  • @aistyle6688
    @aistyle66884 күн бұрын

    Great video. Keep up the great work and keep on improving!

  • @ConstantineTvalashvili
    @ConstantineTvalashvili4 күн бұрын

    I really loved lumia series. 🥹😍

  • @SeshuBabu-Seshu
    @SeshuBabu-Seshu4 күн бұрын

    Soon total Widows also fails. Every day every thing Update Update. And old one is in trash. Over updates Kills Windows and as well as Iphones also.

  • @johannkrist
    @johannkrist4 күн бұрын

    I had one of these phones, I loved it. At the time Microsoft had access to Garmin maps, helped a lot while traveling, the garmin Maps didn´t need network

  • @joshualewis8077
    @joshualewis80774 күн бұрын

    I still have mine

  • @imanqoly
    @imanqoly4 күн бұрын

    Problem was not "too late" Problem was no money and no reasons for developers... That's why coolest smart phones of history became history.

  • @mnijhoff
    @mnijhoff4 күн бұрын

    I really loved Windows Phone. Shame they didn't made it.

  • @kadevent
    @kadevent5 күн бұрын

    Lumia

  • @uckBayNguyen
    @uckBayNguyen5 күн бұрын

    The name itself killed the phone. When people hear "windows", they think computer. Phone? That's a gimmick