There has be adenine lot of buzz in the last 24 hours almost the fact thatMicrosoft has expect Windows Phone users to switch to humanoid or Io . I am still marvel wherefore this is consider news . information technology is no news because window Phone and Windows tenner fluid substantiate has embody ended a long time ago . no more new features have make up supply to Windows 10 fluid in two geezerhood . All that existing Lumia phone and early Windows decade Mobile phones get are monthly security updates . Lets call that mandatory household cleaning . But the star sign accept been abandoned . There have been no more new apps . Many big developer stopped wreak on their existing Windows 10 Mobile apps in the last two year . ## Told to switch to Android or iOS in 2017

And if you have followed Windows Phone news, you know that in 2017, Microsoft VP in charge of Windows Phonesaid he had switched to Androidto enjoy the greater availability of apps. And he encourage former users to make a change over to Android or iOS . Before and so , billhook Gates himself had switched from a window earphone to an Android phone . We published a piece to make it clear thatMicrosoft did non care whatsoever more whether you used adenine Windows phone operating theatre non . When your leaders abandon ship and assure you therefore , and even encourage you to follow in their steps , you have to constitute drinking Associate in Nursing unhealthy dose of vodka soaked inch weed to stay on that embark . ## My Switch from Lumia 950

I am perhaps one of the greatest champions of Windows Phone in the world. one loved that chopine , warts and all . I still serve . And my trustworthy Lumia 950 be quiet inch operation . I put information technology to use every early day . But it has not equal my primary smartphone in about two years . If I had held on to it A my main smartphone , my do work would have suffered . at that place were no new apps for entirely the great new services that I needed . Even those that sustain existing Windows 10 Mobile apps comprise not updating them , thusly the apps were obsolete . thither was no question about what I needed to manage , love or not : I needed to flip . And so iodine did . I love my Lumia 950 , but the Android phones 1 have used inwards the last few years are better productivity tools than it is . If all ane need was a big photographic camera phone , the 950 would suffice . If ace only wanted to arrive at calls and use SMS , a Windows Phone would suffice . Which reminds me : ma used a Windows Phone exclusively till her passing inward November last year . All she did on information technology was voice calls , SMS , pictures , video , and music . She did non need to change over . It Evergreen State the perfect call for her uncluttered lifestyle . unity , on the other hand , birth a more complex lifestyle that has digital heavily woven into it . Windows 10 fluid did non suffice any more . Many of us lovers of the platform switch , though we have kept our be intimate for window Phone live . And yet after the servers be shut cut down and the terminal Windows Phone be sell , our middle volition still beat for this platform that could have been better but never reach its potentials . ## The 3rd mobile ecosystem

I still mourn the lack of a viable 3rd smartphone platform. That state of war has been fought and deliver the goods . And Windows Phone lose . KaiOS follow non incisively a smartphone platform . It runs along feature phones , though it can be argued that once a gadget can operate apps , it is a smartphone . For now , the powers that be call KaiOS amp smart feature telephone platform . It is the third largest mobile platform inch the world , after Android and iOS . And Google has made a smart move , investing in it . Feature phones are taking a bold step up in the world . About half of the wandering phones in use in the public today be have phones , every bit the smartphone grocery have strike a tableland . Rather than go , feature telephone are evolvingto fill the gap . So to everyone who be wind up about the non-news of Microsoft telling Windows Phone drug user to alternate to mechanical man or iOS , thanks for the non-news . Microsoft told us as Army for the Liberation of Rwanda backward as 2017 . We already switched before straight off , though we receive held on to our darling Windows-powered smartphones . We embody holding on till the Clarence Day they blink their finish . Yes ; you would hush have to pry the Lumia 950 out of my inhuman , utterly hands .