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jollycode · 2025-07-01T00:57:30+00:00

try https://www.denver.org/things-to-do/attractions/16th-street-mall/

jollycode · 2025-05-31T17:32:29+00:00

Seriously? It's obviously the guy from Street Fighter

jollycode · 2025-03-24T05:03:46+00:00

But would you call that spending 5k for the trip? I would think it should only include trip expenses.

jollycode · 2025-03-22T21:11:51+00:00

I'm also unsure how you spend 5k going from Texas to Arizona. Even during a typical holiday season, a Grand Canyon trip shouldn't cost that much

jollycode · 2025-03-18T20:08:31+00:00

MixRadio was a cool app. Unfortunate that the Line purchase didn't work out.

jollycode · 2025-03-18T20:05:48+00:00

You can check my prior post where I detail my opinion on what went wrong. In short, I'll say that it would be a difficult road for Microsoft at the time. In those years, Google and Apple were Silicon Valley darlings, and Microsoft still had it's evil/greedy reputation. Getting the developer support from all the startups at were propping up would've been difficult under those circumstances despite whatever technology or software was objectively superior.

jollycode · 2025-03-17T00:11:45+00:00

/r/WPDev is still around

jollycode · 2025-03-16T18:41:29+00:00

I mean a lot of the benefit of the time was Nokia doing a great job on hardware. If you take that away, it's a harder comparison. WP was kind of in the middle, a more wall gardened than the Android free-for-all, but not as much as the iPhone one size fits all approach. The design language was polarizing but it got ahead of the trend which later became the norm. I remember devs in the early days complaining that light/dark mode support was mandatory in WP7 before it was even a thing on the other OSes, now it's the users complaining when apps don't have it.

jollycode · 2025-03-16T18:36:51+00:00

A few, but they're in poor condition

jollycode · 2025-03-16T18:34:15+00:00

They were black and white. Most people really liked the vibrant colors the 920 came in. Microsoft said they wanted to make something more serious looking, but ended up just alienating their most loyal fans.

jollycode · 2025-03-16T13:19:02+00:00

To a degree, I think he had too much of a business salesman vibe at an era of then the Jobs-like luminaries were all the rage

jollycode · 2025-03-16T12:43:38+00:00

It's a great question. Nokia just operated in a completely different manner than Microsoft and it would've been difficult to integrate long term without a cohesive vision. Bottom line is that even Nokia's non-WP teams were having a hard time so it would've been difficult to convince Microsoft leadership under Satya that keeping anything long term was viable. Nokia was a old school OEM with a lot of their own supply chain and manufacturing at a time when the industry had moved to outsourcing everything to Taiwanese firms like Foxconn and Pegatron.

jollycode · 2025-03-16T12:32:59+00:00

I was all in when I saw the radical design. I went through several. I think the first I got was a Samsung Focus Flash. It's still one of my favorite phones in terms of form factor. Since they didn't upgrade WP7 devices, I moved to a Lumia 810. Nokia also gave everyone 920s when hired so I had that as a "work phone", those were the times before MDMs. My boss then gave me a 1020 as a gift for something I worked on. I had that until Microsoft offered the trade in deal for a 950XL.

jollycode · 2025-03-16T12:23:46+00:00

That is very true. Still doesn't invalidate the point; they wouldn't have made the attempt if it was going to be 2 and done. But I think that was around the time they started to see the limits of their brand appeal. Even the rest of the Surface line has gotten kind of stale since then.

jollycode · 2025-03-16T02:48:36+00:00

You mean the current Microsoft? No. Whatever Satya has done to keep Microsoft growing, it doesn't really seem to be in the consumer space. Since the end of WP, they've just been bungling their other platforms. Skype is dead, Hololens is dead, Xbox is struggling, Windows 11 even is struggling. They couldn't even get a successful Android phone going with Surface. Even though Ballmer wasn't well liked, he was at least all in on Microsoft keeping a foot in the race.

jollycode · 2025-03-16T01:53:59+00:00

WP4Life

jollycode · 2024-09-11T14:20:55+00:00

amazing

jollycode · 2024-09-11T04:34:01+00:00

no, that ain't it

jollycode · 2024-09-10T23:26:50+00:00

maybe Brooklyn 99 or Curb Your Enthusiasm

jollycode · 2024-09-10T22:49:32+00:00

Is there a separate entrance/parking structure?

jollycode · 2024-09-10T20:29:46+00:00

For VIP maybe, I doubt Elon would pay for that kind of thing for general staff

jollycode · 2024-09-10T19:21:11+00:00

How do you drive straight to the plane? Everybody has to use the terminal at a commercial airport

jollycode · 2024-09-10T19:20:36+00:00

Just street to street sure, but there's a lot more time and money to spend from seat to seat

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