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by asveikau 2806 days ago
I often felt they saw Apple being successful while being demanding of app devs, and erroneously thought that it either didn't matter or even more extreme that there was a causal relationship there. They didn't realize the need to counterbalance that arrogant attitude with better execution than they delivered.

By this I mean only the app platform. WP7's built-in UI and apps got lots of praise for being buttery smooth because they weren't using .NET or Silverlight, they had a private ui framework.
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TomMarius 2806 days ago
I had HTC HD2 and I sadly don't remember WP7 being smooth at all.
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abawany 2806 days ago
I had one too and as I recall, the highest OS one could run on it was WM 6.5, which was a completely different beast than W7+. I remember that the best improvement I made to this HD2 was install an early version of Android on it a few years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_HD2

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TomMarius 2805 days ago
Yeah you're right, I confused the versions. I had Android on it as well, good times. Bought Samsung Galaxy W after that (yeah, W!).
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asveikau 2806 days ago
I thought there was a hack to put 7 on the hd2. Unofficially of course.

There was also the hd7 which was a very similar device.

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