+1 on appium support (disclaimer: I'm an appium contributor). Shouldn't be too hard for them to add since it supports real devices. Opens up the door to Selenium library support and compatibility, which would be a huge win IMO.
Why would they do that when the build a C# toolset for developing cross platform apps?
This is meant to expand the ability of MS developers to build cross platform apps. See it in that light and C# makes sense.
Oh. Hmm... well, the selenium framework is still very good. I still recommend they support it. But if their target costumers are only Microsoft stack devs then.... I have no comment.
I didn't mean it negatively, but their primary tool is a C# cross platform app builder which compiles to native code. They are a C# shop and are building products (including this new service they just bought) that make sense for their primary users. C# developers (theoretically also Linux devs running Mono).
Oh wow, I didn't know about Mono on linux. Very interesting!
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
1.https://github.com/nicegraham/appdriver
2.https://github.com/appium/appium