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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: The 10 Worst Smartphones Of All Time
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 12:20:03 -0700
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On 2024-05-01 12:16, Blueshirt wrote:
> Alan wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-05-01 06:55, News wrote:
>>> On 4/30/2024 6:16 PM, Tyrone wrote:
>>>> On Apr 30, 2024 at 5:47:10 PM EDT, "News" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> No 'worst' WinPhones
>>>>
>>>> That's because they all sucked. It would be impossible to
>>>> single one  out of the huge, ugly mess that was "Windows
>>>> Phones".
>>>
>>> Had apps, tiles, and native Office functionality before Jobs
>>> stole them,  like he did from Xerox PARC, but what do you
>>> know.  1. The first Windows Phone came out more than 3 YEARS
>>> after the first iPhone.
>>
>> 2. When the first Windows Phone was released in October 2010,
>> the iPhone had already had an App Store for more than 2 years.
> 
> FWIW, I had a windows phone back in the day, a Nokia Lumia 530.
> I thought it'd be great to have a phone that had an OS similar
> to Windows. (The tiles looked cool.) How wrong I was! It turned
> out to be a pile of shit, constantly overheating and freezing if
> you tried to actually do anything on it.
> 
> It's a travesty that no Windows phone features on a list of 'Top
> Ten Worst Smartphones'.

Uh-huh.

And never forget that all of this sprang from Microsoft's ill-advised 
attempt to create one OS that would be used everywhere: Windows 8.