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Re:Why I'm investing in Windows Phone and skipping Android by felixmar on Friday March 19, 2010 @06:34AM (#1203827)
The downside of Windows Phone 7 is that it is the most limiting and sandboxed development platform of all mobile operating systems. No native code execution like Android, no multitasking, no direct access to the camera, no sockets support and more. Even Silverlight has less restrictions.
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Re:Why I'm investing in Windows Phone and skipping Android by sadiq on Friday March 19, 2010 @07:26AM (#1203877)
Android has native code execution via the NDK:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

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Re:Why I'm investing in Windows Phone and skipping Android by felixmar on Friday March 19, 2010 @07:40AM (#1203893)
My mistake, i meant to write "No native code execution support like Android has".
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Re:Why I'm investing in Windows Phone and skipping Android by allenbrunson on Friday March 19, 2010 @07:17AM (#1203871)
no sockets support? sounds like a dealbreaker. does it have something similar to take up the slack, like a web access framework or something?
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Re:Why I'm investing in Windows Phone and skipping Android by felixmar on Friday March 19, 2010 @07:46AM (#1203902)
Only HTTP is supported unlike Silverlight which also supports TCP sockets and even multicast UDP with Silverlight 4.
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