This is really a shame. I brought a Windows Phone on the first day WP7 was released and it was surprisingly initiative at the time.<p>I stayed with WP all the way up to WP10 until last year when I finally switched away.<p>I was happy to put up with having fewer apps back in 2010 because I liked the OS so much, but more recently it felt like they just stopped innovating and the lack of apps is much more of an issue today in 2017.<p>I think Microsoft could have done more to make WP10 more attractive to users, but at the end of the day because of decisions made (primarily by Apple) to limit functionality of universal web apps and in turn creating OS specific ecosystems, they were forced to fight against a almost insurmountable network effect either way.<p>It's a shame because this seems to be the fate of many tech innovations.