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Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
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Re: Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
#52Back when Microsoft started started throwing in the towel and put their phones on fire sale I loaded up on $30 Lumia 640's (how could you not at that price for a 5" LTE in 2015?) They've served me and my family well since. The lack of apps has a flip side... I'm not terrible worried about malware. ;) And I'm not worried about my kids getting too distracted by all the games, etc available on iOS/Android.
I loved WP back when I used it. It got out of my way. Its auto-complete was better than anything I'd used before or since (though a friend has it, and he says this has degraded over time?) Anyway, I use Android now because of Republic Wireless. It is a real shame that Android took off instead of WP.
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#53I was working in Microsoft about 5 years ago and Satya's not lying when they say they tried everything to incentivise app developers. It was a big focus of the company at the time. For keystone apps they tried to partner with developers doing most of the work for them. For more niche apps they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc. But nothing was enough to get over the pr…
Im still on the platform. I was holding out, hoping for something. But I guess my current phone will be my last windows phone. Sad.
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#54It feels inevitable, but it's still a shame.
I think the Windows Mobile interface was the most functional of the mobile UIs. I switched to Android years ago, but I still miss it.
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#55This surprises no one.
I'm more interested in: what's the future for UWP apps now? Another dead end like silverlight?
A cross platform UI library that runs on .Net core (ie. windows, mac, linux, android, ios), some kind of hybrid of ??? and Xamarin forms could potentially be quite a nice tool... but its pretty hard to be excited about the prospect with their track record of killed off UI frameworks so far.
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#56Technically was good perhaps even better platform than iOS and Android.
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Re: Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
#57This surprises no one. I'm more interested in: what's the future for UWP apps now? Another dead end like silverlight? A cross platform UI library that runs on .Net core (ie. windows, mac, linux, android, ios), some kind of hybrid of ??? and Xamarin forms could potentially be quite a nice tool... but its pretty hard to be excited about the prospect with their track record of killed off UI frameworks so far.
I think it has a little more hope with XBOX One support.
Re: Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
#58This surprises no one. I'm more interested in: what's the future for UWP apps now? Another dead end like silverlight? A cross platform UI library that runs on .Net core (ie. windows, mac, linux, android, ios), some kind of hybrid of ??? and Xamarin forms could potentially be quite a nice tool... but its pretty hard to be excited about the prospect with their track record of killed off UI frameworks so far.
Well the Xbox is still a UWP target, so there are still multiple platforms that use it.
Also I wouldn't be surprised if we see microsoft make a push to allow UWP to target Android.
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#59This is why the latest tool I did for Windows still was based on WinForms. Because you know the old crappy stuff will be supported forever and the new shiny better stuff (WPF was pretty cool!) will be deprecated within two years and probably will not get significant developer traction. With a lot of confusing marketing from Microsoft. I don't think even the guru's within Microsoft itself can sum up all the different…
It looks like WPF will be supported for the forseeable future, but I get your overall point
WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, ... it doesn't matter. The whole .NET Framework 4.x and .NET Core 1 have the "legacy" tag on. Their new thing is .NET Core 2. The rest moved on to cross-platform.
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#60Url changed to this (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15433098) from http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-mobile-microsoft-jus..., a slightly less substantive article.