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Microsoft itself is an Android vendor these days: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-duo-2/9408kgxp4xjl https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-duo-2/
by pavlov 3y ago
Microsoft itself is an Android vendor these days:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-duo-2/9408kgxp4xjl https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-duo-2/9408kgxp4xjl
Maybe there’s a long game here where the Surface line will become all-Windows one day again.
- jeroenhd 3y agoMicrosoft did partner up with Amazon to provide Windows users with Android apps. It's not entirely unimaginable that the Amazon Store + Bing Maps + Outlook + Edge + OneDrive + Office can become an alternative to Google Play + Google Maps + Gmail + Chrome + Drive + Docs.
- kotaKat 3y agoIf I recall correctly, the Surface Duo was supposed to be a Windows device (hence the odd selections like native UEFI and lack of certain hardware that would be on a contemporary Android device in the same class eg NFC). Microsoft was getting frustrated they couldn't get a good Windows experience on the metal and ended up contracting Movial, a software/embedded engineering firm, that they ended up partially acquiring to basically accelerate the Android port to the hardware and get it shipped. https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-acquires-the-surface-duo-development-team-from-movial/ https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-acquires-the-surface-duo-d... At the same time they were rushing the half-baked Android release out to the Duo they were all together working on what they actually wanted to ship in the Duo 2. (I was a Day 1 Duo user. I promptly returned it only two months into the ownership experience.)