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Also, had ms continued production and not burned goodwill at each turn, as well as skipped the crapshow that was windows 8, we could at least had had 3 providers instead of two.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon"}, {"id": 782345488, "item_id": 48896593, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896593", "by": "throwa356262", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I would love to switch back to WP.", "excerpt": "I would love to switch back to WP. I would love it even more if we could all go back in time and switch to meego. I used one for a short while and it felt more more well thought than the mess that was android at that time.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon"}, {"id": 781280784, "item_id": 48830049, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830049", "by": "psd1", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Galen Hunt contributed to Windows Phone, which I adored.", "excerpt": "Thanks, that was fascinating! I also see that Galen Hunt contributed to Windows Phone, which I adored. (Maybe I'm quixotic, maybe I'm a poor picker, but i love a thing that's beautiful and doomed.)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Salt v1.0.0 \u2013 a systems language with Z3 theorem proving in the compiler"}, {"id": 741990592, "item_id": 46374412, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46374412", "by": "chistev", "date": "2025-12-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "They were terrible.", "excerpt": "Lol, I remember those phones. They were terrible.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone?"}]}