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bydaninaustin ( 985354 ) writes:
MS has a habit of abandoning devices. Maybe that's a reason so few people want their phones.
byAnonymous Coward writes:
That parent, right there.
As a developer, this is the one thing that pisses me off about microsoft the most. Wasted time and effort developing an app for a specific platform only for it to be dumped (the language, the OS version or device range).
Though if you used something like unity, it's less painful as you can retarget other platforms I suppose.
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byKurrelgyre ( 548338 ) writes:
Applications built with the WinRT API deploy to Windows on Intel just as well, and that's the only API that was available on the devices not getting Windows 10.
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