Microsoft really shit the bed with Windows Phone.

The UI was great, it ran great on budget hardware and the high end Lumia lineup had some banger features, crazy Nokia cameras etc.

I had 2 of them and I really believed the OS would become a viable choice along with Android and iOS…and then Microsoft proceeded to do absolutely nothing with it for years. No incentives to build apps, no tools to port over existing versions for devs, never got an Instagram app, no push for desktop mode or a decent file system or compatibility with regular desktop apps via a translation layer for x64 (how apple launched M1), nothing.

They put no effort and just let it die. Such a shame.