Microsoft is giving up on consumer smartphones, too

ReCode ^ | MAY 25, 2016, 5:00A | BY INA FRIED

[Swordmaker]

Ping for your list. . . Microsoft gives up on cellular phone market.

[TangledUpInBlue]

Good. Back to core business and up will go my stock!

[DAC21]

the Microsoft Lumina 640 has been selling for $30 recently (Best Buy comes to mind) 5” screen, better than avg. camera and high quality DAC’s for music playback. Hard to think it will go lower but even at $30 it is a hell of a Wifi / Camera / Music player device.

[Swordmaker]

Microsoft is throwing in the towel and getting out of the cellular phone business. Lays off 1850 workers. — PING!

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[Crolis]

I read that on WindowsCentral.com earlier today. I’m not so sure they are pulling out of the smartphone market completely, but they might be focusing on enterprise.

Of course I just bought a Lumia 950 XL yesterday. I do like Windows 10 Mobile. It’s coming along nicely and hopefully some more apps get written for it although it is a chicken and egg scenario with regard to app development.

[zeestephen]

Microsoft should have concentrated just on a smart phone Windows operating system instead of going into the retail phone business.

Once they had the mobile Windows OS up and working, they should have licensed it to every Third World country on the planet for $1 a year.

They would have lost money, but only a fraction of what they lost on Nokia, and they would probably have a billion cheap mobile phones using the Windows platform, phones that were manufactured by a dozen different low cost Third World companies.

[doomtrooper99]

It’s a pity. I like Windows Mobile much better than iOS or Android.
:-(

[Grams A]

Now if they would just stop their relentless push to convert to Windows 10.

[Secret Agent Man]

Windows 10 FORCIBLY crossed 300 million units....

Such lying liars.

[zeugma]

Microsoft is giving up on consumer smartphones, too

It's this their 3rd time to do so? You'd think people would learn. Then again, maybe they have.

[Boogieman]

Stupid MS, they should have used basic common sense... “stick with what you’re good at”.

MS is good at making an OS that dominates the business market and the casual home computing and hardcore gaming markets. Yet, they have for the last 3 major updates made that OS less friendly towards those markets in a vain attempt at rebranding themselves for a mobile market that is NOT their strength.

Any fool could have told them it would be a disaster, but that is another one of MS’s weaknesses: they never seek or listen to feedback from their customers before throwing hundreds of millions of dollars away on hare-brained ideas.

[Paradox]

It’s a pity. I like Windows Mobile much better than iOS or Android.

I have used them all, and I prefer Windows Mobile as well. I'll hang on to my 640 XL for as long as its useful.

[Excellence]

I was going to get one in October, but I would have to switch from Verizon to ATT. How do you like yours?

[rmlew]

The New Windows Phones are nice. It is a shame that they are getting out of the personal use market. Had microsoft been smart, they could have focused on security and made a play for consumers concerned about security, and not just businesses.

HP is introducing a phablet for business with some interesting features, if it works. http://store.hp.com/us/en/ContentView?storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&eSpotName=Elite-x3

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I remember trolls at FR telling me how MSFT was going to take over the mobile phone market with the new MSFT phone.

RIP.

[Crolis]

I’ve ordered it but it won’t arrive until tomorrow evening. I had been putting off the purchase but they just announced a deal for $150 off and I was able to get $150 trade-in for my old Lumia 925. And a free display dock on top of that.

At that price I couldn’t resist anymore. I’ll let you know though once I get a chance to kick the tires.

The $150 off and free display dock I think is still going on.

[Crolis]

I like the Windows mobile interface much better as well. I’m not a heavy app user so most of the things I use my phone for are email, web surfing, texting, calls, and a few other things which Windows Mobile already has apps for.

Now I don’t get any of the trendy apps, but I never used them much anyway.

[rockrr]

I hated my company issued Winphone until it broke and was replaced with an iPhone. I suffered through two weeks of that and begged for my Winphone back!

[TexasRepublic]

“Now if they would just stop their relentless push to convert to Windows 10.”

One of the Windows 8.1 computers in our office fell victim to that unwanted upgrade just today. The user had been rejecting the nagware “recommendation” to upgrade for the past two months. Today, the machine simply upgraded anyway. Then to add insult to injury, the user had to “Accept” a screenful of legalese that allows Microsuck to pillage more information from the computer, or else the computer would be unusable. She was not a happy camper. I told the user that it was akin to rape, that she should just lay back and enjoy the experience! (Thank goodness she has a sense of humor!) And I said for the umpteenth time, “This is why I use Linux instead”.