Windows Phone Dev Leaves the Platform Because Everyone Else Is Doing the Same

Yet another Windows Phone app maker is getting ready to abandon Microsoft’s mobile platform and the reason it provided perfectly makes sense.

Air New Zealand, which is the national airline of New Zealand, is discontinuing its mPass app in the Windows Phone Store because of the declining number of users on the Windows Phone platform, as reddit user /u/ Dodger_nzl explains in a post today.

It goes without saying that the Android and iOS versions of the app remain available for users on these mobile operating systems, and there’s still no plan for a return on Windows 10 Mobile with a universal app.

Although at first glance this might be just a minor departure from the platform, it actually shows Windows Phone’s biggest problem at the moment, as developers can hardly find a reason to stick around.

Microsoft, the first one to blame for the en-masse departure