Windows Phone was a huge paradigm shift from an iPhone or Android. The windows phone was a phone first, and a computer second. It would try to allow you to have access to the phone for as long as possible. Android and iPhone had no native battery saving features at the time, but windows phone did! It was great for those of us who went without power for extended periods of time.
The reason it didn’t take was obvious if you spent 10 minutes inside a cell phone store with comments like “you don’t want that phone because there aren’t any apps.” That was true, to an extent. However it had all the apps you’d ever need and some unofficial ones that blew the official ones on other platforms out of the water. Literally, people were attracted to it but were sold something else after being told all the negatives without the positives (the best camera at the time, surround sound recording, etc). That’s why it failed, nothing to do with “features” just sales people given higher commissions to sell something else.
The reason it didn’t take was obvious if you spent 10 minutes inside a cell phone store with comments like “you don’t want that phone because there aren’t any apps.” That was true, to an extent. However it had all the apps you’d ever need and some unofficial ones that blew the official ones on other platforms out of the water. Literally, people were attracted to it but were sold something else after being told all the negatives without the positives (the best camera at the time, surround sound recording, etc). That’s why it failed, nothing to do with “features” just sales people given higher commissions to sell something else.
I don’t know anything about the other things.