Yes, it was a shame, and it only died mainly due to the lack of available apps in the store and bad management. MS took too long to release it with Android and iOS already well established in the market.. It was also the OS that resisted the longest in the Pwn2Own Hacking Contest in these years. While Android and iOS went down in less than a minute, before the hackers could access the data, on WindowsPhone they hit their teeth on a rock, after half an hour they could only access the cookies.

[–] Cube6392 6 points 7 months ago

Microsoft fucked up in the smartphone market so many different ways. The misunderstood the UX paradigms that would work, refused to change when Apple had obviously stolen their lunch money, stayed the bad course they were on when Android stole Apple's lunch money and then didn't even notice it has slammed Microsoft into some lockers because that's how little windows phone mattered. By the time Microsoft did like... Actual good market research and focus testing to build an actual good mobile os (maximally ironically based on their Zune UX which had failed previously because Microsoft was infinitely too slow to the mobile audio market) it was exactly as you said. The perfect mobile OS just 5 years too late to matter. More than anything what they needed to do was prove the apps you actually needed were present on their store and pay OEMs money to make windows phones to establish market share to make up for having a lower count of apps. They failed to do so. Now their actually genuinely brilliant mobile os only exists as a series of android apps that no one really gives a shit about.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can still get it with android launchers. Was toying with them the other day. Launcher 10 I believe is pretty close.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 3 points 7 months ago

I actually use Launcher 10. I love it minus the weird glitch where the letter selector from the all apps list occasionally not working. Best Android Launcher around

[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can use launcher10 or any other launcher that looks like windows phone home screen.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's the launcher I use. It's the best available from what I can find

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Different people have different tastes. I use Trebuchet 8. But person I replied to was asking about Windown Phone experience on android.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What is Trebuchet 8? I didn't see it in the play store for my Galaxy Flip 4.

Best I can find is it's pre coupled with lineage is and you can extract it from the OS or some such but beyond that I'm lost

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

I don't remember where I found it, but it is LineageOS' launcher

[–] cqthca@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

can't get an windows 10 emulator for android?

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 1 points 7 months ago

I use Launcher 10. Close enough to a Windows Phone