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Author:  pcernie [ Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Steve Ballmer says Windows Phone should run Android apps
Steve Ballmer says Windows Phone should run Android apps | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... ps-1310380

WTF's going on there?
Author:  jonbwfc [ Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Steve Ballmer says Windows Phone should run Android apps
pcernie wrote:
WTF's going on there?

Ballmer is mental?
Author:  pcernie [ Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Steve Ballmer says Windows Phone should run Android apps
jonbwfc wrote:
pcernie wrote:
WTF's going on there?

Ballmer is mental?


That's a given, but he's starting to make sense!
Author:  big_D [ Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Steve Ballmer says Windows Phone should run Android apps
The trouble is, Windows 10 Mobile runs the same apps as the desktop. If they run Android apps, it is the end of native apps for Windows.

That means sluggish apps that look horrible and don't work as you expect, because they are designed to run on Android and use the Android UI structures. Windows uses a completely different paradigm. The Islandwood initiative looks like a much better way to go about the problem. Instead of running Android apps under emulation, it should allows iOS developers to port their code quickly and easily to run on Windows - hopefully they just need to tidy up the UI elements. But it is still a way off from being a production reality.

I don't like Android (or iOS), so I chose Windows. Why would I want to run slow apps using the Android UI, when that is the reason I didn't buy an Android device in the first place?

If he was talking about an Android equivalent to Islandwood, he would be onto something, but the Astoria project has already been canned, by the look of the last blog they posted.
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Fri Dec 04, 2015 8:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Steve Ballmer says Windows Phone should run Android apps
big_D wrote:
The trouble is, Windows 10 Mobile runs the same apps as the desktop. If they run Android apps, it is the end of native apps for Windows.

That means sluggish apps that look horrible and don't work as you expect, because they are designed to run on Android and use the Android UI structures. Windows uses a completely different paradigm. The Islandwood initiative looks like a much better way to go about the problem. Instead of running Android apps under emulation, it should allows iOS developers to port their code quickly and easily to run on Windows - hopefully they just need to tidy up the UI elements. But it is still a way off from being a production reality.

I don't like Android (or iOS), so I chose Windows. Why would I want to run slow apps using the Android UI, when that is the reason I didn't buy an Android device in the first place?

If he was talking about an Android equivalent to Islandwood, he would be onto something, but the Astoria project has already been canned, by the look of the last blog they posted.


i agree. i was all for android but it has become a bit of a pig in a poke. just moved to windows 10 and i will be getting a windows phone shortly ...
Author:  jonbwfc [ Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Steve Ballmer says Windows Phone should run Android apps
The last company that thought adding Android compatibility to their phones would increase their popularity was Blackberry...
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