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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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