Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown

Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by dagw on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:24AM (#9851675)

I'm not the original poster, but I bought a Lumia 925 out of pure nerdy curiosity. I'd tried iOS, I'd tried Android and just wanted to see what else was out there. And I have to say it's pretty fine piece of hardware running a pretty great OS.

All that being said, I'm probably going back to Android for my next phone, simply because WP keeps lagging further and further behind when it comes to apps. If WP had the same apps as Android I'd probably buy a new Windows Phone.

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by romanovcode on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:41AM (#9851797)

AFAIK WP will be able to run Android apps on next release which is coming this summer.

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by s73v3r on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @11:00AM (#9851959)

The developers of said apps will still have to upload them to Microsoft's store.

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by 0xFFC on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @11:43AM (#9852311)

I think most of developer will do , When they see such huge opportunity .

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by s73v3r on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @05:34PM (#9854761)

Windows phone has a minuscule marketshare. Where is this "huge opportunity"?

Remember, Blackberry did the same thing, and it didn't help them at all.

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by macintux on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:27PM (#9853238)

Huge opportunity? Such a huge opportunity that even Microsoft seems to be giving up on the platform?

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by 0xFFC on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @02:13PM (#9853593)

Clearly you don't know what are we talking about , Compiling/Uploading your app just exact same way you already did many times for new platform/users is something most dev will do , because it don't have any burden. And as I remember they mentioned 100% compatibility , and they even support most of Google cloud service via Microsoft service's with exactly same API .

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by s73v3r on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @05:33PM (#9854756)

And I'm sure it'll all work perfectly, and there will be absolutely no reason whatsoever to test your application on Windows devices, right?

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by akshat_h on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:48PM (#9853407)

Or they could allow installing from apk or third party stores. Though that will help only the more technical users, which doesn't seem to be lumia's target market.

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