Re:Phone is about to stop being yours
by lucb1e on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:19PM
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Wait, you lost me somewhere. The MS store didn't support the old way of doing things, people had to rewrite their software; yet iOS was... new as well? People had to start from scratch and so that worked?
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Sorry, the statements were a bit disjointed.
iOS existed before the Microsoft Store. The apps developed were brand new. No backlash from a new SDK and platform.
Windows RT is closer to iPadOS though. For iPadOS, apps just worked since it’s based off of iOS.
The Microsoft Store only supported a new half-baked SDK that limited what applications were capable of. Developers already had Win32 apps and rewriting them with the new SDK seemed pointless just to support what seemed like a needless limitation.