Re: In a world, where smartphones aren't shitty PCs
Microsoft 950XL is still my phone and it works extremely well.
HERE maps are fine. They've been adopted by car manufacturers, so they have a lot of support.
My Mail app allows me to joint to each of my email providers through POP3 or IMAP, so there's no problem. There will be a huge number of apps available from various stores. China will make sure of that. The China market alone will convince app authors to place their products there, as well as in Google and Apple stores. Should be an easy port to another Android. The necessary libraries will become available with familiar API's.
The author of this article seems to expect everything to look exactly the same as Google's offering.