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You're worrying about ill-informed speculation about a hypothetical product? ;-)
by scholia 10y ago
You're worrying about ill-informed speculation about a hypothetical product? ;-)
- protomyth 10y agoNo, I'm worrying about a strategy that would have been a bit easier to implement. I have about as much belief in the hypothetical nature of a Surface Phone as people had about an Apple Phone. An intel chip would have made much more sense for Microsoft.
- scholia 10y agoNo, it wouldn't. Microsoft's long term preference is to move to sandboxed apps downloaded from the Windows Store. If you're running Windows 10 on a smartphone with an Intel chip then you're potentially leaving yourself open to badly-written Win32 programs that can have devastating effects on performance, security and battery life. If you're only going to allow UWP apps then it doesn't matter whether it's a ARM chip or an Intel chip. In passing, OEMs can already make and sell Intel-based smartphones and tablets with free Windows 10. However, Intel-based phones like the Asus ZenPhone weren't successful, which is why Intel dropped the new Atom SoCs for phones and tablets....