I used an Xperial back in high school too, it was better the Android and iOS in every way except the number of apps
Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I worked selling cellphones when Windows Phone was trying to compete. Their failure was lack of apps. From what I understand, it was difficult to port apps from Android or iOS to Windows Phone OS. It’s a shame because the user experience was bar none. Hell, I installed a Windows OS theme on my Android for years. I still think they could make a comeback if they made an actual, honest to God Windows Phone that ran all Windows apps.
0Xero0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If they wanted to compete today, they’d fork Android in a similar fashion to how Edge moved to Chromium.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
I think this is a reason the Zune touch did poorly too.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Zune was not especially great in terms of what it could do, true, but the hardware was also shit. The first gen Zunes all bricked at one point due to some programming error.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
I could’ve sworn the Zune HD’s specs were better than the current gen iPod touch.
steveman_ha@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same on the Windows OS theme 😊
blazeknave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Xamarin was supposed to solve this. They even bought the fucking company.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I don’t remember that. What is Xamarin?
TheCodeJanitor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a cross platform UI framework using C#/.NET, mostly cross-mobile-platform, although technically it could make Windows desktop UIs too.
scottyjoe9@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They now spruke .NET MAUI (Multi-Platform App UI) as the new “write once, deploy everywhere” framework. I’ve not used it but it sounds good in theory 🤷♂️
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Ok now explain it for those of us who went to community college
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
Supposedly they eventually got android apps to run on windows phone directly, the app devs would only need to publish their Android app to wp. But if they actually got that far they never released such an option.
I’ve heard that the tech they got from developing this Android app support eventually turned into the WSL system on windows (the windows feature that let’s you run a Linux kernel/terminal and subsequently, Linux programs)
lightnegative@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Must’ve been WSL1 which they eventually abandoned. Trying to reimplement all the Linux syscalls on top of the Windows kernel was always going to be a neverending game of catch up.
WSL2 they just run an actual Linux kernel within Hyper-V