[Ezhik]

I firmly believe that the messy transition from WP7.5 to 8, Microsoft focusing on the internals of the OS versus much-requested user-facing features is what doomed the OS.

I recognize that the transition was necessary, but between the lackluster functionality (notification center, for example, was the #1 requested feature for years), lack of updates (8.0 to 8.1 took 20 months), and, of course, lack of developer support, I'm wondering if Windows Phone had a chance at all.

I will never stop being upset over the death of Zune HD and WP7 era Metro UI, though.

[trm42]

And basically developers needed to remake (more or less) the apps from WP7.* to WP8. Nowadays they need to port apps from WP or from Desktop Windows to Windows Universal Apps, so what's the point if nobody's using those apps? :D