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What does this mean for Microsoft's idea for a unified Windows 10 platform? Will they have to bury their x86 Windows 10 Smartphone plans as well?
by m_mueller 11y ago
What does this mean for Microsoft's idea for a unified Windows 10 platform? Will they have to bury their x86 Windows 10 Smartphone plans as well?
- stesch 11y agoAnd what about the HoloLens?
- m_mueller 11y agoAccording to [1] the HoloLens chip continues to be supported. [1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063672/windows/the-death-of-intels-atom-casts-a-dark-shadow-over-the-rumored-surface-phone.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063672/windows/the-death-of-...
- stesch 11y agoAll I can see is "Microsoft uses a Cherry Trail chip inside of the HoloLens, but it's unclear whether or not that will be affected."
- m_mueller 11y agoSorry, I read > "The company said it will continue to support tablets with a 3G derivative of the SoFIA chip, the older Bay Trail and Cherry Trail, as well as some upcoming Core chips." that it will be supported, but reading this source again this indeed doesn't make it clear whether that's actually the chip used in HoloLens. I'm sure they will find a solution, but it will be a shame if HoloLens gets much worse battery life because of this...
- hga 11y agoThat appears to be the case, see e.g. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063672/windows/the-death-of-intels-atom-casts-a-dark-shadow-over-the-rumored-surface-phone.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063672/windows/the-death-of-...
- m_mueller 11y agoBoy, I think this is the final blow for Microsoft's smartphone ambitions. Whatever technological advantage they would have had is now gone. Their strategy was all over the place in terms of platform - pretty much every version of Windows Phone AFAIK required a rewrite because of constantly shifting grounds.
- pjmlp 11y agoNot necessarily, all mobile phones are ARM based and continuum is already here. Yes, the rewrites were shitty. Apple and Google also do it, but they can allow themselves to push the developers through them.
- hga 11y agoSmartphones are all about ecosystems, and as the various Microsoft efforts there have shown, Apple and Google now have that locked up. However they don't do the x86/Windows ecosystems in phone space and not Apple in tablet space, and now no one will find out how much demand there was for x86 Windows smart phones.
- pjmlp 11y agoAgree, and I would actually gladly exchange my Android devices by WP ones, given the developer experience. I really don't get where do all those PhDs at Google work, surely not on Android dev tools. But Microsoft might still win the space of productive tablets, as I am yet to find one as good as the Surface.