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Not an official announcement, but it's probably safe to assume an Xbox handheld is in development.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 77 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And it's absolutely Microsoft's cycle. New game changer product comes on the market, they rush a half ass version out with the promise of a really good one later, half ass one flops, they scrap the whole idea because no one wants the half ass version, they fade into obscurity.

Tablets, VR, video chat, phones

Anyone remember this?

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The iphone

Microsoft's new phone were supposed to spell the end for it.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh! This was an ad! Those cocky sons o bitches.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Not an ad. Microsoft employees held a funeral for iphone and blackberry when MS released windows phone 7.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-iphone-funeral-2010-9

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 months ago

Such a Steve Ballmer being CEO moment

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

went about as well as the release of the zune

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

I loved windows phone, the UI was so clear (I still use square home on android to this day), the camera app was superb and it was a very efficient operating system for low end hardware.

It didn’t have a ton of apps but honestly I don’t know, sometimes that doesn’t feel like a bad thing for a thing I am always trying to make more into a tool than an addiction….

Sure windows phone wasn’t going to grow rapidly for years, but it was well situated to take advantage of an opportunity in the future when apple or google stumbled and created an opening. I think for a company as large as Microsoft just abandoning it entirely was a massively stupid move. Now Microsoft has a gigantic blind spot in mobile, and they are stuck in that position.