• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    24 days ago

    that hype train was fun though. The standard microsoft loop.

    • They build a crappy version
    • Put no actual investment in it
    • Drop the idea
    • Someone else comes along, makes a version that’s great, and microsoft gets jealous
    • Microsoft throws 1000% of their resources behind the technology which they are now behind in
    • They cram the product down everyone’s throats, not realizing how much they’re annoying their base
    • Realizing defeat, they quietly kill off the product and act like it never happened.

    Windows Tiles, Windows Phone, Zune, Tablets, AI, take your pick

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      24 days ago

      I wish Windows Phone had stayed. More competition in the mobile space is good, and they had some functioning ideas. Eventually they gave up and turned into a pale Apple imitator before giving up.