Microsoft Windows Phone Failure

Microsoft tried with Windows on their phones. Look where that led them.

I don't think it's a mistake. They are just too early.Look at how Microsoft correctly identified tablet and smartphone as part of the future, as early as 20 years ago when they had special Windows XP tablet and custom Windows CE environment.People often talk about the first mover advantage, but it can also be a curse: that's why Google ate Microsoft lunch, and why Facebook ate Myspace lunch, and why Microsoft ate IBM lunch etc.If Microsoft hadn't thrown the tower wit

Microsoft defeated their own phone platform by not having proper developer incentives/support.

Microsoft gave up on a phone operating system far too early.

They tried a handheld UI, with Windows phone but it failed. I think mostly because their UI was too far from what people expected aka something looking like ios (Android UI is almost a copy of iOS UI) and also because they came into the market too late with too few product innovations to be appealing. With 5% of market shared, this was not worth the cost, for devs on the plateform. If they want a comeback in the smartphone industry, maybe they have something to play with copilot and AI. Like an

I still remember one of the first HTC phones which had a mobile version of I think windows xp. The phone came with a stylus and the windows felt like a miniaturized version of desktop. This improved significantly in the Lumia series, the UI was good and easy to use. But by then the app ecosystem had already built strongly around android and ios so there was not much traction. I feel microsoft lost the ecosystem battle rather than OS. With too big app stores, the developers did not have much appe

Sorry you feel abandoned. However, as you say you are an early adopter you should recognize this is a strong (even likely?) possibility.Yes, if the platform you invest in early is a success you can reap many rewards. But the mobile OS market has killed many platforms, and even a successful company like Microsoft can't guarantee success.We can play what-ifs in hindsight, but it's not like Microsoft was late to the game. I remember Windows CE and Pocket PC. My guess (and hope)

I'm not convinced that it was because of poor timing, but just because of bad App environment. Look what's doing Huawei lately: kicked out of Google Services, it's a well established Phone maker, but it's losing quotas really fast, because their alternative OS (still a fork of Android) doesn't offer important applications to date (e.g. WhatsApp, Banking Apps, Payment Apps and so on), so I believe Microsoft was just crushed because developers weren't attracted by the

Windows Phone did not take off when it partnered with Nokia to sell Lumia Phones. At that time Nokia still had market share and loyal users especially in Europe and India. Despite a good OS, great dev tools and good OEM backing MSFT did not manage to get a market share of 10% be a relevant 3rd platform. It's hard to imagine how MSFT would restart a battle that has been lost some time ago.

Microsoft would need to be more like Microsoft is today. Probably more than Microsoft is today as well.People forget Microsoft had a large chunk of the Smartphone market before the iPhone changed everything. Android adapted quickly, but Microsoft already had a number of products they needed to support. There is no shame in that - they did their best - and better competitors, such as Palm and their WebOS and Blackberry with their QNX-based BB10 failed as well.