You know, I am genuinely starting to wonder if you might not be right about that. I am definitely feeling Dr Sbaitso vibes.
If you enjoy John Siracusa at his most exacting, youâre in luck! 
Although itâs more about food types these days. They take suggestions on Twitter, too.
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The two things in the first article Iâd say were unique were Microsoft integration and XBox games. Other things such as Offline maps werenât available across the whole range, just certain phones. I canât remember back to that time how big a deal Integration was (or how big a miss it was on iOS or Android). Obviously XBox wasnât a big enough draw or the phone would have done better. Everything else was available on either iOS or Android.
By 8.1 it was all over. 7 wasnât generally received well by consumers, businesses or developers and 8 was the last chance saloon which unfortunately left 1 year old Windows Phones unable to upgrade to 8 from 7 which turned purchasers and businesses off even further and segmented the market for developers. Alongside the general apathy/hatred to Windows 8 (part of the same code base allegedly) on Laptop and Desktops and the fact that the Surface RT was a dismal flop it consigned 8.1 to an irrelevance.
Having said all that, I still think it was a good OS, just too late.
Are you just joking? If Iâm talking to a wall, maybe I should just stop replying to youâŚ