Peak Microsoft is the short-lived Windows phone. They already had a decent product in Windows mobile, but then an arrogant lack of innovation caused it to fall behind when, first Blackberry, then Apple and Google raced right past them, so they bought Nokia and produced the actually fantastic Windows Phone, brilliant devices - then even had a funeral for iphone. Got next to Zero traction because they were so late to the game and ultimately wrote off the whole division....
Posts by stewrogers
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As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away
Thursday 13th March 2025 14:15 GMT
NOOOOOOOOO!!!
Yea this sucks. For all the Bluetooth replacements out there, they don't match the functionality of the Chromecast audio. I have a couple of them, and they are keeping some old (but still great) hifi equipment relevant and its really rather depressing that that has gone away. It's bad enough Google took the decision to stop producing them without killing the ones out there already.