Everyone developer who worked hard to make windows phone die. Hope you're happy.

> who worked hard to make windows phone die

You mean Microsoft? No backwards-compatibility with Windows Mobile to begin with (so companies can't reuse their existing investment into line-of-business apps on actually nice modern devices either), then they reset the ecosystem 2 times (once during the WP7->WP8 transition, another time during the Windows 10 transition).

Well put. Microsoft following the "Double barrel shotgun, apply one wad per foot." (Reset ecosystem 2 times.)

I was a telco product manager at the time and I can tell you right away that it wasn't developers that killed Windows Phone. This book (https://asokan.org/operation-elop/) tells part of the story, but the telcos I worked for (and competed with) definitely played a big role.

That book is new to me. I wrote https://paulhammant.com/2013/05/07/android-and-the-art-of-wa... on Google vs MSFT and phones before the book. Mine's a perspective that doesn't mention Nokia or its leadership.

I did own a Treo and loved it up to the OG iPhone - I repaired the eff out of it in the hope that something worthy would come along. I kidded myself I would write apps for it. I'd previously played with Simbian tech (and met a very bitter Simbian team dev in London one "eXtreme Tuesday Club" meetup in 2003). I had a Psion Organizer way back and Palm pilot. I thought Palm's WebOS stood a chance. I still own a Ubuntu Phone that I don't use - single script QML apps would have been the killer, but all that's passed now.

Let's not pretend that MSFT would have been one tiny bit better here.

I am, mostly because Windows Phone 7 always did what Google is attempting to do here.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4229029/can-you-install-...

At least we got 10+ years of real sideloading on consumer devices thanks to WP7's death.

Windows RT "sideloading" denied for ordinary users, costly for Line-of-Business apps (2012).

Microsoft UWP only Microsoft Store. Microsoft backtracked their walled garden Windows plans for a while as result of Windows Phone fiasco.

Yes, we are.

I don't understand this sentence. Can someone rephrase?

Try lemur browser, it has extension support.

Call it little snitch

Man, don't give Little Snitch a bad name.

ꕷ𖣠𖢑𖤟 ꛃ𖣠𖦪𖤰 𖣠ꛘ ꛅꛘ.

Major DOJ Antitrust Cases

1. United States v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (1911)

   - Duration: 7 years (1904–1911)  

   - Outcome: Standard Oil was ruled an illegal monopoly and broken up into 34 companies.

2. United States v. Microsoft Corp. (1998)

   - Duration: 4 years (1998–2002) 
 
   - Outcome: Initially ordered to split, but after appeals, Microsoft avoided a breakup and instead agreed to business restrictions.  

3. United States v. AT&T (Bell System) (1982)

   - Duration: 8 years (1974–1982)  

   - Outcome: AT&T agreed to a settlement, leading to the 1984 breakup into seven "Baby Bells" to increase competition.

And the DOJ is still holding that Google must break up

does google have a good relationship to the current administration?

I am not aware of a google-lobbyist being as close to trump as Zuckerberg and Musk are, and I definitely see the possibility of these two manipulating the administration against google.

A dns based adblocker like nextdns.io can help to a large extent. It doesn't block YouTube ads in my experience though

The last paragraph of Animal Farm by George Orwell reads:

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

My take:

Democrat and republican party are two sides of the same coin!

The parties shift, the faces change, but the game remains the same. Battles are waged in public, deals are made in private. Power is the prize, and blind loyalty is the sacrifice.

Allegiance is demanded, division is fueled. One side painted as righteous, the other as corrupt.

But no more! No more blind devotion. No more politics as theater while lives hang in the balance.

Judge not by party, nor by word but by action and how it affects you.

Grown weary of the false equivalence here. No, a party that does not decry Nazis salutes is not the other side of the coin.

Sorry, is that all you have going for the Democrats? The Republicans might be worse, but they can both still be worth opposing.

I don't like the Republican Party and much prefer the Democratic Party because of the Republicans':

Nazi salutes.

Reckless incompetence shutting down services without understanding they are or do.

Supporting an invading regime over the people who were invaded.

Abandoning our European allies.

Threatening to annex/occupy countries and neighbors.

First firing the inspectors general that provide oversight.

Pretending like they were going to lower grocery prices but are now more focused on trade wars and fantasizing about a Trump hotel in Gaza.

Would you like me to continue?

That’s how a lot of moderates feel apparently, which is how Trump was able to win. I guess we’ll find out if we even have parties (or a country) in 2028.

I feel like political discourse would not be in the state it currently is if it wasn’t boiled down to a facile comparison between good (the party you support) and evil (the party you don’t support) and that, ultimately, neither of them succeed without being in collusion.

It’s very much a false dichotomy based on Hollywood superhero slop.

Yeah, no. Knee jerk both sides are the same was how republican actions and goals get euphemism away while democrats faults are exaggerated.

Systematically. There is no symmetry here.

"Initial feedback", blatant lie.