Microsoft Lumia smartphones to disappear from stores in December

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We’ve just posted the following news: Microsoft Lumia smartphones to disappear from stores in December[newsimage]http://www.myce.com/wp-content/images_posts/2016/09/microsoft-lumia-95x75.jpg[/newsimage]

Microsoft’s Lumia smartphone line up will cease to exist. Microsoft will stop manufacturing new Lumia 550, 650, 950 and 950 XL phones in December and after that, the phones will gradually disappear from stores.

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out of the frying pan of overpriced phones into the fire of surface WAAAAY overpriced phones!
good luck with that Microsoft!

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Microsoft is going to need to really get their butts in gear if they ever want to have a presence in the mobile phone market. If they could make the entirety of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows apps work as well as they do on the PC, that would certainly help Microsoft. They should probably start pushing Intel to focus more on power efficient x86 processors. That way, Intel’s processors can compete directly with ARM processors, while providing Windows users with access to the millions of apps, both new and old, available on Windows PCs. Also, Microsoft should not stop people from using non-appstore apps, since doing so will discourage users and developers alike.

Of course, Microsoft has been trying for years to get their operating systems on handheld devices. They’ve never even managed to compete with PalmOS, let alone IOS or Android. I remember my mother getting a Windows-based phone around the same time Windows Vista hit store shelves. She now uses an iPhone, and is unlikely to go back.

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[QUOTE=TSJnachos117;2780772]Microsoft is going to need to really get their butts in gear if they ever want to have a presence in the mobile phone market. If they could make the entirety of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows apps work as well as they do on the PC, that would certainly help Microsoft. They should probably start pushing Intel to focus more on power efficient x86 processors. That way, Intel’s processors can compete directly with ARM processors, while providing Windows users with access to the millions of apps, both new and old, available on Windows PCs. Also, Microsoft should [B]not[/B] stop people from using non-appstore apps, since doing so will discourage users and developers alike.

Of course, Microsoft has been trying for years to get their operating systems on handheld devices. They’ve never even managed to compete with PalmOS, let alone IOS or Android. I remember my mother getting a Windows-based phone around the same time Windows Vista hit store shelves. She now uses an iPhone, and is unlikely to go back.[/QUOTE]

This would certainly provide a path forward and in time could make tablet and laptop docking stations possible as well. Then again they’ll probably stumble forward to oblivion in the phone market with their store only app policies.
A holistic view and one device to encompass it all would require a vision not present in the company it seems :frowning: - The processing power needed is already present :iagree: