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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by pm90 on Monday October 09, 2017 @10:03AM (#15433840)
Its a free market, and the market has spoken. I think its the right strategy for MS to accept that the market is just not going to accommodate yet another mobile ecosystem. And its not for lack of trying: they've been trying for over a decade now to break into the mobile OS market. They had tablets running a version of Windows much before iPad; they had "Smartphones" running windows much before 2007. There's gotta be something that they just can't get right about mobile OS (or probably its simply the fact that the market doesn't have space enough for yet another proprietary OS).

MS will do a lot better if it focuses on making android betters, supporting .NET apps in android (yay Mono!). Maybe in the future they could revisit the mobile OS thing and have better luck then but for the near future it looks very unlikely.

The mark of a good company is adaptability. Intel went from RAM chip maker to creating microprocessors, MS itself went from creating BASIC compilers to making OS's. With Azure, .NET, Office, Windows etc. I think they have enough areas to make money off. Its just their strategy of adapting windows to mobile devices didn't work.

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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by pjmlp on Monday October 09, 2017 @10:13AM (#15433932)
I only see a value on .NET apps on Android for those companies planning to do both iOS and Android, or re-using existing .NET code.

For those just targeting Android, specially given the global market share, they are better off with plain Java/Kotlin + NDK, than adding yet another layer to debug and extra APK size.

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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by izacus on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:02PM (#15435004)
".NET apps on Android/iOS" are actually a very popular thing - the framework is just named Xamarin instead of .NET.
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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by pjmlp on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:26PM (#15435223)
As I said, in the context of targeting both iOS and Android it makes sense, but OP meant targeting only Android.

And despite my advocacy, when targeting both mobile OSes, customers at enterprise level tend to pick Ionic or pure Web approaches, despite the lower UX.

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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by throwaway613834 on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:31AM (#15434666)
Wow, I didn't even know Intel was a RAM chip maker before doing microprocessors... or that Microsoft started with BASIC. Thanks for the historical notes!
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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by mark-r on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:27PM (#15435234)
OK, now you're making me feel old. I knew those things through personal experience.

I suppose you didn't know that HP made calculators either?

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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by throwaway613834 on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:57PM (#15435994)
Haha, sorry about that! Didn't know HP started with calculators either! (I know they've all had these products, but I had no idea these are how they started.)
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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by mark-r on Monday October 09, 2017 @03:03PM (#15436501)
No, they didn't start with calculators, but they were well known for them at one time.
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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by amigoingtodie on Monday October 09, 2017 @07:39PM (#15438278)
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