--- title: There is no good mobile operating system | daily.dev description: A personal account of switching from Windows Phone to Android and back again, weighing the pros and cons of each platform. Android wins on app quality,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/there-is-no-good-mobile-operating-system-zqiwot2dl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: There is no good mobile operating system | daily.dev og:description: A personal account of switching from Windows Phone to Android and back again, weighing the pros and cons of each platform. Android wins on app quality,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/there-is-no-good-mobile-operating-system-zqiwot2dl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zQIwOT2dL.png og:image:alt: There is no good mobile operating system og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # There is no good mobile operating system **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of switching from Windows Phone to Android and back again, weighing the pros and cons of each platform. Android wins on app quality, ecosystem (Google Now, app-wide account sharing, pluggable keyboards, Microsoft's own apps working better there than on Windows Phone), but loses on notification spam and inconsistent app design. Windows Phone offers consistency and a cleaner timeline experience but suffers from instability, crashes, and the unavailability of Cortana outside the US. The author concludes no mobile OS is truly good and hopes platform teams learn from each other. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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