[IanDrake]

At the time, I don't think normal users would have called Android better than 'sub-par'. I'll admit that with Material Design and recent OS releases, they've gotten much better, but still many of my non-geek friends tolerate their Android phone that they got for "the big screen".

Now that Apple has solved the "I want a big screen" problem, I think those people will run back to iOS.

I'm sure Elop thought MS was going to put some more effort behind WP. They got a lot of things right, but not the UI and certainly not the marketing.

For what it's worth, I've been using WP for about 3 years now. It's performance is underrated, but Metro went too far as a flat UI.