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Windows Phone Zune
On the other hand, it would have gotten a -7 rating on the ifixit scale. The hard drive got jostled one too many times and stopped working properly. I've fixed a lot of phones, but the Zune turned out to be unopenable, if that's even a word.
Actually, that's a lie. It did ultimately open, but the casing cracked repeatedly.
They were done in by "planned obsolescence"; I haven't watched this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdh7_PA8GZU) yet but it has a good ratio.
I can't stand the light from LED or fluorescent light bulbs, and GE can pour themselves a warm bath.
XMPP. The entire chat landscape is a damn travesty right now. First Facebook disappeared behind it’s own walls, then google... I really miss the days where I could use one client to chat with all my contacts. I honestly think Im in contact with less people now because everyone dropped support for open protocols.
XMPP. The entire chat landscape is a damn travesty right now. First Facebook disappeared behind it’s own walls, then google... I really miss the days where I could use one client to chat with all my contacts. I honestly think Im in contact with less people now because everyone dropped support for open protocols.
JavaFX Silverlight Adobe AIR
I’m not informed enough to know, but it seems like I’ve only heard negative stuff about these.
Usenet, IRC, RSS, XMPP, ... Well, still rockin'
[0] https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/managing-in...
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I still don't understand how MS managed to mess up Windows Phone. My girlfriend had one for a while and it was excellent.
Google's monopolistic abuse is a very under-reported part of this story. No Google app suite, which Google is absolutely allowed not to make. So Microsoft made the apps for free for Google, google said no, then Microsoft released their own brand clients (e.g. Microsoft YouTube client, Maps, etc) and Google shut it down with lawyers. Can any platform survive without Google ecosystem support? If Windows Phone was the c…
You forget, or I forgive you if you never knew, that google made really good apps on the old Windows Mobile. Google Maps was especially good on WinCE. Then Microsoft declared all Win32 apps dead in favor of a very half baked Silverlight runtime that didn't have such luxury features as sockets or scrolling that actually works. So if I were calling the shots on Google's end at that time, no way I am going to advocate for a massive rewrite onto a runtime that doesn't work well for a very small number of users.
Microsoft's own boneheaded actions killed Google's goodwill for its mobile platform.
NeXT.