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(I’d throw in Tweetbot too, of course.) These are astonishingly good apps, apps that take highly chaotic and complex systems and present them in a clear, directly actionable way. I’ve never owned one but always really wanted to there’s a crispness and an elegance to the OS, and a terrific balance both between control and customisability, and between productivity and playfulness, that I flat-out adore.Īlthough for many people checking off Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Skype and WhatsApp is likely all the third party app diversity they need, I’d reach for the same examples as Tom Warren does when complaining about the moribund ecosystem – Dark Sky and Citymapper. I’ve always liked Windows Phone and felt it deserved wildly more success than it got. I felt left out using the official Windows Phone Twitter app because it didn’t have a special World Cup section that curated great and entertaining tweets, or country flags for hashtags. My frustration boiled over during the World Cup this year, as Twitter lit up with people talking about the matches.

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That’s a big problem for apps like Twitter that are regularly updated on iOS and Android with features that never make it to Windows Phone. Developers might be creating more and more Windows Phone apps, but the top ones are often left untouched with few updates or new features. I’ve always been slightly frustrated at the lack of Windows Phone apps, but as the gaps have been gradually filled, a new frustration has emerged: dead apps. Worth-reading refection on the stagnation of Windows Phone and its app ecosystem from The Verge:

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