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Evolution of Windows (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They tried going tablet/mobile-first with 8. I don't know if they want to try again so soon. But I mean it's Microsoft.

Hell, maybe they'll use their experience with WSL to get Android apps working on Windows, solve the problem they had with Windows Phone. Fuck I miss Windows Phone. I never had one, but it looked so cool with the squares. Unlike desktop Windows, where it looked like shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Windows Phone was great, and developing apps for it with C# and Visual Studio was easy. I don't understand why they didn't at least try to push it just a little bit harder. It would have represented such a tiny fraction of their overall development budget. But they just completely gave up on it.

    Hell, even RIM tried harder than they did to keep their shit going.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I also feel that the platform was ahead of its time for ease of app development. It's not like XCode is hard to use, especially now that we have Swift, but everything I know about Objective C seems awful and while Java is just about equivalent to C# in a lot of things, I don't remember there being a visual GUI editor in Android Studio, which I'm pretty sure Visual Studio did have. I at least know it had it for desktop targeted software.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    everything I know about Objective C seems awful

    Yeah, I transitioned from C# to Objective C around 2010 and I agree with your assessment entirely. It's just horrendous but I did get used to it. The thing I hated the most was the header files, just an absolutely useless fossil left over from its C lineage.

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