Das Surface Duo ist tot – Microsoft stellt das 1.500 US-Dollar teure Surface Duo 2 nach nur einem Android-Betriebssystem-Upgrade ein

This is one of the reasons you can never trust anything but the most established Android brands. The Android experience is just so disjointed and it’s up to each manufacturer to actually update anything. Then you have the carrier certification process that makes things take even longer.

I like Microsoft, but much like Google, they’re way too quick to pull the plug on things which is why fucking no one in their right mind adopts their new devices and software 

Microsoft has been such a strange company for the past 10 years. Everything they do feels amateurish and half-baked. They never fully commit to anything and even their most successful product lines are filled with glaring issues (the Office suite and Windows to name two). Everyday when I’m using Excel at work and dealing with its infuriating flaws and performance issues, I’m always thinking that a monkey could code a better piece of software. I guess since Microsoft has all the major corporations in their back pockets, they no longer feel the need to compete or provide streamlined software. I suppose that’s what happens after you’ve bought up and snuffed out all of your competition. A complacent monopoly if there ever was one.

I said it then and I’ll say it now; if that thing ran iOS I would buy it in an instant.

I avoid both Microsoft and Google for hardware and platform tools. Both companies care more about quarterly profits than their customers so everything they build last 3 months then turns into vaporware. If you bought one of these devices then you get exactly what you deserve. Microsoft knows you will have to throw it in the trash and buy something else.. and you’ll probably just buy another Microsoft product anyway (Windows license or otherwise). Why care about your customer’s wallet or personal security when you’ll just keep going back for the same crap over and over again.

I don’t understand Microsoft’s thinking on hardware. Does it want to get into the hardware business or not? Take something like Xbox. There were bumps along the way, but Microsoft stuck by it, and it is doing fine. But when it comes to mobiles and tablets and stuff like that, Microsoft seems to lack the balls to make a real commitment.

The critical flaw for me was the glass chipping over the charge port, leading to extensive cracking, then water eventually getting into the phone. Outside of that I loved it, too bad it flopped.

Folding screens are taking off just as I thought they would. Novelty isn’t a compelling reason to buy anything. Make a better one-handed interface.