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Used to have windows phone as a choice, but never ever did google cooperate in getting something as major as YouTube on that platform.

(Yet Roku and more do.)

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I left Windows Phone several years ago due to lack of apps. Recently I found the old phone in my home and played with it a bit. WP UI was awesome, I miss it. It was so clean, so easy to use, so beautiful. But the lack of apps really killed it.

What was it 5 years that Google denied any perceptible lag on their platform before coming out with Project Butter. Windows Phone was the only other mobile OS as responsive and snappy as iOS.

I absolutely loved my Windows Phones and was gutted when they killed the product.

Actually they even blocked it. Microsoft had a YouTube app in the store but Google blocked it [0]

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-neuters-youtube-windows-...

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