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Comment by mkozlows

This is the same strategy Blackberry tried, more or less, and I'm skeptical that it'll work out any better for Microsoft.

It's nice enough in the short term, maybe -- Windows Phone users can get some subset of quickly-ported things -- but in the long-term it seems to doom Windows Phone to second-class status; why would you write a real, native Windows Phone app when you can just do a quick half-assed port of your Android/iOS version? And if Windows Phone is just a platform that has a bunch of outdated, bad versions of some Android/iOS apps, there's not a lot of reason to buy it.

parent mkozlows 11 years ago

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