We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. While Nokia had appeared to be Microsoft's closest Windows Phone ally, HTC quickly showed that it wasn't going to push out the same uninspired devices that made up its Windows Phone 7 portfolio.
The Windows Phone 8X moniker was also a strong statement that positioned HTC's new phone as the consensus best option. This meeting is apparently the latest in ongoing discussions between the two companies — Chou and Ballmer have been meeting several times a year, with frequent email and phone conversations also taking place as the two companies work to strengthen their partnership.
HTC had hoped to launch a Windows Phone device at 4. Microsoft needs an inspired hardware partner like HTC not to mention Nokia , but HTC also could use a Windows Phone hit — the company been in a year-long slump despite releasing some of its best Android hardware to date in Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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This will provide users with much greater functionality and can avoid using live lock screen app as a standalone. Every user including myself has got tired of seeing the same excuse some missing features are OS limitation from every developer. This makes them both developers and users helpless and compromise on the experience. Even if the total count is around the third of competing stores its fine as long as all of them give a quality experience.
With windows phone 8. Not to mention collaborations like Facebook etc. So windows phone is not bad as it was a year ago and has made huge improvements in every aspect. The features are almost in parity the app store has more than three lakh apps with many major titles showing up.
With windows 10 getting ready to be the on OS to rule it all and is going to merge both platforms into on scalable version, things are looking bright for windows phone in the future provided they can make this version the best yet. Apple itself even published that the top free iPhone app for all of was YouTube -- an app that wasn't even available to download three months ago. In short, there's no way I'd consider using the iPhone if the only Google-made app in the iOS universe was a search program.
Yes, that's the case in Windows Phone -- just a single Google app. The iPhone would still have sold millions, sure, but one has to wonder how much less impactful it would've been without Google pushing its apps into the App Store. For the better part of a year, I held onto a hope that Windows Phone 8 would be the revision that finally pushed Microsoft over the hump in the mobile world.
In the recesses of my mind, I'd clung to hope that Google would extend an olive branch as it continues to do with Apple. But all of that hope evaporated after reading words from Clay Bavor, product management director at Google Apps. In a recent interview with V3 , he stated the following:. We are very careful about where we invest and will go where the users are but they are not on Windows Phone or Windows 8.
If that changes, we would invest there, of course. Dagger, meet heart. What most folks may not realize is just how improbable it is that Windows Phone will ever reach a place where Google could justify investing. It's the age-old chicken and egg problem. Google isn't going to waste effort on Windows Phone until Windows Phone is worth exerting effort on, but can Windows Phone elevate itself to such a point without Google investing the effort to begin with?
Even the iPhone didn't have to make such a climb alone -- from day one , a pillar of the iPhone's universe was provided by Google in its Maps application.
There's a reason Microsoft is fighting tooth and nail to get Office onto iOS with an agreeable revenue split. There's also a reason that Apple couldn't care less if Pages and Keynote ever end up on Windows Phone, while Google has no interest in offering a legitimate Docs experience there.
It's simply becoming impossible to believe that any mobile operating system in the modern era can thrive without a meaningful push from Google. If I'm being honest, I worry that this precise scenario will make or break BlackBerry 10 , but at least RIM has a shrinking, admittedly enterprise market to fall back on.
Microsoft is gunning for the exact same customer that Apple and Google presently hold captive. And the way I see it, it's going to need a heck of a lot of luck to win that customer over using Hotmail and Skype. Oh, and Microsoft -- go ahead and prove me wrong. We could really use the competition you're capable of providing.
Sign up. Editorial: Does Windows Phone even have a chance without Google? Murph Sponsored Links. In this article: apple , ecosystem , editorial , google , maps , microsoft , mobilepostcross , smartphone , windows phone , windows phone 8 , WindowsPhone , WindowsPhone8. I'd argue that of all the potential customers who would even think of giving Windows Phone a try, a huge portion of that would be a crossover audience that has also given Gmail a try.
The Missing Googleplex Let's act like email doesn't matter for a moment. The iPhone factor "But," you might say, "how can you respect the iPhone when even its Google experience is one that's bolted on? If you're still somehow doubting the power of proper Google integration, look at the Maps situation on iPhone. Hopes, dashed For the better part of a year, I held onto a hope that Windows Phone 8 would be the revision that finally pushed Microsoft over the hump in the mobile world.
In a recent interview with V3 , he stated the following: "We have no plans to build out Windows apps. Even the iPhone didn't have to make such a climb alone -- from day one, a pillar of the iPhone's universe was provided by Google in its Maps application. All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company.
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