Microsoft did a lot of things right with Windows Phone 8, it was a great OS and it's a shame it never took off. Unfortunately their timing couldn't have been worse, they showed up late to the party at the peak of their unpopularity. It never really had a chance.
Professionally, yeah I’ve noticed the platform ain’t a great success, at least so far.
I think last time a company approached me asking to do some WP development was over a year ago.
Fortunately I also develop for Windows PCs, and those aren’t going from desktops any time soon.
But personally I’m happy with my Lumia 930. It’s old but still works fine (replaced a battery once) and is updated to latest WM10. I don’t care about OS market share as long as my own copy works.
Same here, and the apps I care about do exist as UWP anyway.
On a positive note, I am seeing on consumer stores here in Germany the space that was used by hybrid Android tablets, being increasingly replaced by W10 netbooks and hybrid tablets.
On Windows Phone 8 and Windows Mobile 10, a background app doesn’t have access to the clipboard. The API is just blocked for background apps regardless on those application-wide permission settings.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh2029...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/window...