Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones

Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by benlower on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @06:30PM (#10700630)

Microsoft continues to shoot itself in the foot here. Nearly two years ago at BUILD they announced universal apps for Xbox One. A year later the new term, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), was being used and another promise of opening up Xbox to app developers. Xbox has yet to really open up for app devs.

The second leg of UWP's 'write a single app and have it go everywhere' was mobile. We've all seen how that's been going.

The final (and biggest/main) leg is traditional Windows. They whiffed badly with the Windows RT devices. Now all the tablets are running the full-blown OS. That means they all run Win32 apps.

Win32 is good enough so why would a developer port their app to UWP when the first two legs are either unavailable or have a very small install base of customers?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by pjmlp on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @03:23AM (#10702548)

> Win32 is good enough so why would a developer port their app to UWP when the first two legs are either unavailable or have a very small install base of customers?

All the new APIs since Windows 8 are only available in WinRT.

For example, the upgrade path to MFC is XAML, which is only available for WinRT applications.

[ Parent | on HN ]