Yep, there was the app gap and then also the app support/feature gap too sadly
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t_berium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The UI seemed really good, I was really tempted. But I was ultimately thrown off by App support in general. Wasn’t there a thing, that Apps often weren’t equal to their Android and iOS counterparts?
rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
Google actively blocked a ton of their stuff from being accessed from windows phones. They even deprecated some communication protocols in gmail to ensure some features of Microsoft’s mail app would not work with Gmail (and then Microsoft found a way to make it work with an alternative protocol and Google went ahead and dropped that too).
YouTube could only be used in internet Explorer. Google refused to let Microsoft make a client for it or do one themselves. Some folks created third party clients for it but Google was quick to block them too.
Then Pokémon Go came out for iOS and Android and it was the nail on the coffin.
Exusia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Holy shit Pgo really was. I traded my LG lancet for an HTC One because pgo wasn’t coming to windows.
And then it never ducking worked because Niantic “didn’t anticipate the server load” of how many people wanted to play fuckin pokemon in the real world. That first year was a fucking shitshow. And I wouldn’t trade the memories of walking around like a buffoon looking for a ghastly for anything.
Spellinbee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I fucking loved when Pokémon go came it, it was so great, but a couple of months after it came out, I was going to the beach, and i was so excited. I figured, going to the beach, I would be swimming in water type Pokémon, then when I got there, I was like, oh, it’s the same zubats at home. Never really played it after.
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The HTC ONe was a gorgeous little phone. I miss it. One of my all-time faves and rock-solid build and one of the first to include an IR blaster - as the power button!
God knows what happened to it.