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Windows 10 is a still an insignificant blip in the phone world. For sure, the two largest ones by far are iOS and Android, and everything else (Windows 10, Blac
by beagle3 11y ago
Windows 10 is a still an insignificant blip in the phone world. For sure, the two largest ones by far are iOS and Android, and everything else (Windows 10, BlackBerry, Tizen, Sailfish, Ubuntu Phone) is basically crumbs.
If anything Windows 10 is a special snowflake in that it does not have an underlying posix-y kernel, which makes it less likely to get anything cross-platform, even if it does get slightly more prevalent than the other crumbs.
- pjmlp 11y agoNot for those located in countries where iOS is only for the riches. There Windows Phones are the only alternative for those that don't want to get an Android device. Android also doesn't have a proper POSIX kernel, its Linux version is very customized, for example IPC is out. What POSIX stuff (it is just CLI and daemons anyway) can you really use for mobile apps?!
- beagle3 11y ago> What POSIX stuff (it is just CLI and daemons anyway) can you really use for mobile apps?! It's not about POSIX per se - but among the Linux and Unix derived kernels, most of the things are similar. e.g., files are open with an open() syscall, file sharing semantics are mostly the same -- whereas on Windows, you call the differently-behaving OpenFile, and you can't delete or move an open file. Porting infrastructure (e.g. flutter) among POSIX-y kernels is much less work than porting to Win. > There Windows Phones are the only alternative for those that don't want to get an Android device. I thought Firefox phones were another alternative. Aren't they?