• If you ever wondered about Windows Phone…

    Posted on April 30, 2016 at 11:02 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Paul Thurrott’s analysis of Intel’s recent decision to give up on Atom mobile chips makes good reading:

    Intel isn’t just years away from fielding a viable smart phone chipset anymore. It has literally conceded the field for this generation. Thus, an Intel Surface phone is not happening… The fallout from Intel’s decision will be interesting. But this is as bad as when Microsoft conceded the smart phone market last July. It’s all over, folks.

    I’ve never understood the attraction of Windows Phone. Mobile’s great, but running 32-bit Windows on a phone is delusional. The incremental benefits of Windows Phone (of which there are a few) just aren’t worth the huge overhead.

    Yes, I do own a Windows Phone. Utter waste of money. That’s why I never covered it. I had the same approach to Windows RT. Waste of money. Not worth covering.

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