PwnallthethingsNov 26, 2022
hahahahahahahahahahah ahaha hahahahahah hahahaha its just a silly little smartphone should be easy ahaha ahahahaha
Show threadPwnallthethingsNov 26, 2022

Take it for what it's worth from someone who has worked on the *ENORMOUS* teams for Windows Phone and Fire phone

looooooool good luck have fun

Show threadPwnallthethingsNov 26, 2022
The silly little smartphone platform graveyard is strewn with the biggest names in tech, from Microsoft, Amazon, Nokia, Facebook, Sony, Blackberry, Mozilla, you name it
Show threadSapphic LawyerNov 26, 2022

@Pwnallthethings

I still mourn the Nokia and Microsoft attempts

Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈Nov 26, 2022
@SapphicLawyer @Pwnallthethings Windows Phone was actually a great UI, fight me.
Show threadSapphic LawyerNov 26, 2022

@andthisismrspeacock @Pwnallthethings

IT WAS WONDERFUL

I CANNOT SAY ENOUGH GOOD THINGS ABOUT IT

Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈Nov 26, 2022
@SapphicLawyer Live tiles for your home screen, humanity will roast in the fires of hell for not embracing that concept.
Show threadSapphic LawyerNov 26, 2022

@andthisismrspeacock

And firmware updates that added new free features!

AND BETTER MEMORY MANAGEMENT THAN ANDROID AT THE TIME

Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈Nov 26, 2022
@SapphicLawyer nobody wants to say good things about MS, and I get it, I lived through WiNdOwS 2000, etc., but fuck if their shit doesn't work better than R_d H_t these days :/
Show threadSapphic LawyerNov 26, 2022

@andthisismrspeacock

If anyone but Microsoft was attached, I'm convinced it would have survived. It was an albatross in terms of branding

Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈Nov 26, 2022
@SapphicLawyer they should have given that shit away for free to compete with the "IPHONE 6 THIS IS GROUNDBREAKING" ok cool it has emojis, neato, but MS is now trying to be AWS and only cares about Azure :/
Show threadSapphic LawyerNov 26, 2022

@andthisismrspeacock

As a leftist I hate to take sides on CEO quality but

Balmer > Nadella

Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈
@SapphicLawyer YES for sure. One wanted to build a competitive ecosystem and the other was like, eh. AWS is probably fine, let's do that.
Nov 26, 2022 at 5:35amWeb
Show threadSapphic LawyerNov 26, 2022

@andthisismrspeacock

Surface Team working miracles all day every day and he's like "Haha ok you kids have fun while the grownups sell server time"

Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈Nov 26, 2022
@SapphicLawyer Riiiiiiiiight right because everyone loves using Azure. It's like server core, "this should be your default", except, uh. all the features are missing?
Show threadSapphic LawyerNov 26, 2022

@andthisismrspeacock

He strikes me as similar to the Twitter board that sold to Elon: utterly disinterested in money in the future if there's short sighted money to be made now.

Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈Nov 26, 2022

@SapphicLawyer

Elon: sup nerds

Fired Twitter Execs: thank you for buying this crate of 8000 squirrels. Some of them are rabid. Bye.

Show threadSapphic LawyerNov 26, 2022

@andthisismrspeacock

Elon was like so clearly a quick buck to them, damn the consequences.

And Nadella going all in on Azure feels like the same thing

Show threadAndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳️‍🌈Nov 26, 2022
@SapphicLawyer and they're mostly on-prem! like, this whole thing is gonna die because you fired engineering