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Old 17-03-2016, 18:43
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The best App Store is the internet, where applications can be downloaded from websites.
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Old 17-03-2016, 18:56
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The best App Store is the internet, where applications can be downloaded from websites.
Like Windows Mobile, and Palm OS, and Symbian
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Old 17-03-2016, 19:02
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Apple doesn't really want people getting Mac apps anywhere but the Apple Store and I suspect Microsoft wants the same with its store.
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Old 17-03-2016, 19:08
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Apple doesn't really want people getting Mac apps anywhere but the Apple Store and I suspect Microsoft wants the same with its store.
The Mac app store is dead, too many restrictions and lots of apps have left the store and gone to their own website. Windows Store has similar problems on Win10 too.
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Old 17-03-2016, 19:36
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The Mac app store is dead, too many restrictions and lots of apps have left the store and gone to their own website. Windows Store has similar problems on Win10 too.
Don't disagree but each wants them to be the only place to go.
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Old 17-03-2016, 19:54
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FYI MS finally released OTA update to W10M for selected WP8.1 phones. You need to install and run an upgrade advisor app to see if your phone qualifies.
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Old 18-03-2016, 20:07
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I'm sorry, but the iPhone was the first mobile device with a full-screen browser to gain serious market share. There were other devices but they were only ever owned by tiny niches.

I could go back fifteen years before to devices like the Psion 3a which had loads of apps available for it but no in-built communication facility.

I know the iPhone didn't natively support apps initially, but it started things going seriously once it did.
No it wasn't, it's the first one you seem to believe but there were others before.

As for you assertion that Apple was the first smartphone that is massively wrong. For a start Symbian used to dominate the market with millions upon millions of users as well as blackberry os.
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Old 18-03-2016, 21:41
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Plus you could have connectivity with old Psion devices, via IrDA.
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Old 18-03-2016, 22:00
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No it wasn't, it's the first one you seem to believe but there were others before.

As for you assertion that Apple was the first smartphone that is massively wrong. For a start Symbian used to dominate the market with millions upon millions of users as well as blackberry os.
There were even touchscreen capacitive smartphones before the iPhone, many smartphones were 3G whereas the first iPhone was 2G even though it was launched 4 years after the networks released 3G. http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/best-mobile-phones-of-2006/ The 2G Apple iPhone didn't come out until a year after all of those.

As you say the poster can't have been around in that era as a phone buyer. This capacitive touchscreen phone was popular and predated the iPhone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

This O2 XDA phone made by HTC with 3.6" touchscreen came out a full 2 YEARS before the iPhone and the HTC XDA was 3G whereas the iPhone which came out 2 years after was only GPRS http://www.gsmarena.com/o2_xda_exec-1279.php
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Old 21-03-2016, 00:27
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HERE will likely pull away from Android and iOS aswell, focusing on using the data Nokia gathering for cars and other things.

Microsoft now has its own Windows Maps app which uses HERE map data so dont really see the major loss for that app to be honest.

On that point, Facebook have released a brand new Instagram app for Windows Phone getting around 2-3 updates a week although the new Beta isn't available to search in the store but rather you need a store link to get the update.

So no i think big companies are now beginning to see the usefulness of the universal app solution with Windows 10 on over 200 million devices at the end of 2015, must have grown by now and that doesn't include xbox, mobile yet. .
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Old 21-03-2016, 07:40
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I still fear it's too late now. Microsoft could get things right eventually, but better choices exist today and by now people are probably heavily invested in another platform.

Plus, now I got my 1520 back up and running, I thought I'd try and set it up as a media player for my son. Seems ideal with a big screen, good battery (Inc wireless charging) and SIM slot.

But there's no official YouTube app, let alone YouTube Kids. And Amazon video, Now TV and the like? There's Netflix but people moan it doesn't currently work properly on 10.

And Spotify is soon going to be a dead man walking.

Still, lovely Hardware. Shame I can't just bung Android on it!
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Old 21-03-2016, 10:40
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But there's no official YouTube app, let alone YouTube Kids. And Amazon video, Now TV and the like? There's Netflix but people moan it doesn't currently work properly on 10.!
The reason why there no official YouTube app is because Google blocked the app, there's lots of alternatives that work just as well like myTube & Metrotube
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Old 21-03-2016, 12:27
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The reason why there no official YouTube app is because Google blocked the app, there's lots of alternatives that work just as well like myTube & Metrotube
Google instructed Microsoft to build the YouTube client in HTML5. Microsoft failed to obey this so naturally Google took action. All Microsoft had to was obey Google.
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Old 21-03-2016, 17:07
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Google isn't interested in creating an official YT app, the one from MS was blocked by Google, because they bypassed HTML5 to make it better performing and skipped ads IIRC which is a capital offense for Google. But by now there's enough good YT apps available and nobody misses that they are not official anything.
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Old 21-03-2016, 17:20
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I miss YouTube Kids. Don't want my son watching the ordinary app (official or not) given how easy it is to end up watching inappropriate content. It's on Android and iOS, and I don't see that anyone has made a third-party one.

So it seems that now I've got the 1520 working but can't really do anything with it, I might seek to sell it to someone who can think of something useful to use it for. I really ought to do that with all my other WP devices.

I think I'll keep the 1020 though, as that camera.... but I guess I have to roll back to a stable 8.1 build now as that's been made end of line.
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Old 22-03-2016, 01:37
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I still fear it's too late now. Microsoft could get things right eventually, but better choices exist today and by now people are probably heavily invested in another platform.

Plus, now I got my 1520 back up and running, I thought I'd try and set it up as a media player for my son. Seems ideal with a big screen, good battery (Inc wireless charging) and SIM slot.

But there's no official YouTube app, let alone YouTube Kids. And Amazon video, Now TV and the like? There's Netflix but people moan it doesn't currently work properly on 10.

And Spotify is soon going to be a dead man walking.

Still, lovely Hardware. Shame I can't just bung Android on it!
There are better YouTube apps on Windows than the official app such as Tubecast, and Spotify will continue support for Windows 10 Mobile just not Windows 8.x
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Old 02-10-2016, 00:08
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Another app bites the dust this time its quite a big one as it the eBay app that's being pulled.

Starting September 30th, the eBay App for Windows will no longer be available. You can still shop on eBay by visiting us at www.ebay.com from your browser.
https://www.neowin.net/news/ebay-is-...dows-phone-app
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