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I had a Windows phone. The UI sucked, of course, but they all did because of the tiny form factor. They had to, right? Then my buddy and I went to lunch one day, and he showed me his new "I-phone".

The heavens opened up and the truth was shown to me. I immediately realized, they didn't have to suck, after all. What a revelation.

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I disagree. I super enjoyed the UI of Windows Phone and only gave it up recently when MS formally dropped support.

Given that they're was talking about events happening around the launch of the iPhone, they probably meant Windows Mobile.

I agree that Windows Phone was pretty great (especially 8 and 10)

In the time period to which parent refers, the Windows Mobile UI was nothing like what you're referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile_6.0

You're right—my bad. Thank you.

Windows phone or Windows mobile? I agree that Windows mobile was in a different class to the iPhone, but I disagree that the UI of Windows phone sucked. I think parts are/were better than iPhones'.

When the iPhone came out, "Windows Phone" wasn't an OS yet. If your phone had Windows, it ran "Windows Mobile" based on Windows CE.

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