Windows phone had a lot of potential
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Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 day agoI would vomit if I had to look at the Windows logo every time I pulled out my phone. Google is not perfect and they’ve made mistakes with Android, but at least it’s Open Source. Microsoft has a much worse record of opposing Open Source initiatives…
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This was nearly 20 years ago, Microsoft was annoying but fairly benign at the time. This phone with Windows Mobile 6 was released alongside the first release of android and the first iPhone
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 day ago
You’re right, they haven’t been this overt since the 2000’s. But their flagship OS is still closed-source and forces ads and unpopular privacy violating features like Recall to this day…