My blog post yesterday commented on how I feel that Microsoft is not doing a great job to encourage smartphone users to adopt Windows Phone.
This morning I heard that Microsoft is now going to kill off it's Photosynth 3D panorama app, leaving Windows Phone users with one less photography app, and leaving the Windows Phone app store a little less competitive than IOS and Android.
I also discovered that three more Microsoft apps are also to be discontinued due to lack of uptake, namely Travel, Food and Drink, and Health and Fitness.
Most platforms kill off underused apps from time to time.
Google is notorious for creating services that actually run as an experiment, before killing them off and upsetting many users (their RSS reader was a good example of this).
I'm starting to wonder if Microsoft is really going to continue in the mobile handset business, and as much as I like Windows Phone, I'm beginning to wonder if I've made a mistake by being tied in to the ecosystem.
However, I've just tried to install an app on my Jellybean tablet, only to find that it's not supported by this version of Android, so I'm left with an obsolete and useless Android tablet.
Why can't things just work like you expect them to?
