{"id":4676,"date":"2016-07-02T17:13:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T09:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/02\/kickstarting-a-windows-10-phone-is-a-terrible-idea-yet-someone-is-doing-just-that\/"},"modified":"2016-07-02T17:13:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T09:13:32","slug":"kickstarting-a-windows-10-phone-is-a-terrible-idea-yet-someone-is-doing-just-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/02\/kickstarting-a-windows-10-phone-is-a-terrible-idea-yet-someone-is-doing-just-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarting a Windows 10 phone is a terrible idea, yet someone is doing just that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f134198%2f7282702ca4274f52b42f5de78be52ce4\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/v3ic5fWJ_67sJO-4GlQs5gZBEsg=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F134198%2F7282702ca4274f52b42f5de78be52ce4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Kickstarting+a+Windows+10+phone+is+a+terrible+idea%2C+yet+someone+is+doing+just+that&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F01%2Fnuans-neo-windows-10-phone-kickstarter%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F01%2Fnuans-neo-windows-10-phone-kickstarter%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Who out there is excited for a new <a href=\"mashable.com\/category\/windows-10-mobile?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">Windows 10 Mobile<\/a> phone? Did your eyes just light up and your heart skip a beat? You&#8217;re in the very small minority that cares about Windows 10 Mobile then.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the Japanese company <a href=\"https:\/\/neo.nuans.jp\/?lang=en\">NuAns<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/316896163\/nuans-neo-windows-10-mobile?ref=discovery\">kickstarting<\/a> a Windows 10 Mobile phone. It would be a great idea if Windows 10 Mobile was relevant at all, but it&#8217;s not. With only 0.7% of the worldwide smartphone marketshare as of Q1 2016 (that&#8217;s worse than the 1.7% ending Q3 2015),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/3323017\">according to Gartner<\/a>, the mobile platform is <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/07\/08\/windows-phone-dead\/?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">as a good as dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/07\/08\/windows-phone-dead\/\">Windows Phone is as good as dead<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even Microsoft knows it, which is why we&#8217;re seeing the company pivot towards providing its excellent apps and services on iOS and Android instead. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/01\/nuans-neo-windows-10-phone-kickstarter\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/smartphones\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Smartphones<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/crowdfunding\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Crowdfunding<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/kickstarter\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Kickstarter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/microsoft\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Microsoft<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/neo\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Neo<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/4ZuOrqwMIV4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who out there is excited for a new Windows 10 Mobile phone? Did your eyes just light up and your heart skip a beat? You&#8217;re in the very small minority that cares about Windows 10 Mobile then. For some reason, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/02\/kickstarting-a-windows-10-phone-is-a-terrible-idea-yet-someone-is-doing-just-that\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2155,2258,1211,3611,1479],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-crowdfunding","tag-kickstarter","tag-microsoft","tag-neo","tag-smartphones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}