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Microsoft is no longer focused on Windows Phone

Microsoft has confirmed that they no longer have a focus on Windows Phone. It's the first admission of the platform's demise, though a lack of compelling launches as of late hinted toward that fate for some time.
 
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Actually I see this as something of a travesty too. Monoculture is typically all about short-term gain and long-term loss. Diversity inspires innovation and development. When it boils down to just Android and iOS, that leaves the consumer with only two choices instead of a true free market where competition prompts all the parties involved to make better products, not just two behemoths focused on out-marketing the other.
 
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Can't say I'm surprised...here's something I posted on on AF about Windows Phone four years ago...

https://androidforums.com/threads/microsoft-admits-no-market-share-in-mobile.772634/#post-6158724
I never understood this dummy cellphones on display nonsense in phone stores. You can't do anything with them, they don't show you anything, except maybe giving you an idea of the size. It must hurt sales. Yet that's what Nokia/Microsoft seem to be doing here, in amongst dozens of working Androids and iPhones. UK phone stores are terrible, it's like all non-working dummys on display. It doesn't look inspiring and conducive to good sales at all IMO. If they're concerned about theft, they're all firmly locked to the security system, even the dummy phones.

And I never actually did see a working Windows Phone device anywhere....only dummies, even in Microsoft's own stores....basically very poor and half-hearted marketing by Microsoft doomed it I think. BTW I never actually saw a Microsoft Zune either.
 
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