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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by cptskippy on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:41AM (#13462909)
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.
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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by Const-me on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:02AM (#13463068)
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.

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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by pjmlp on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:01AM (#13469152)
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.

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