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Meanwhile marketing made sure everything looked fine on the outside, still recruiting app developers to the platform they were planning on abandoning. Wasted 2
by ganzuul 2y ago
Meanwhile marketing made sure everything looked fine on the outside, still recruiting app developers to the platform they were planning on abandoning.
Wasted 2 years on that bitter, bitter lesson followed by prolonged depression.
- pjmlp 2y agoSorry about that, I was on the Networks unit, still I could follow most of the Mobile stuff from inside. After the Metrowerks based, tooling, there were two attempts with Eclipse, the first wasn't that great and I no longer remember the name, the second one was Carbide. Which is when then eventually acquired Qt, introduced PIPS to ease the pain, and started to make Symbian C++ dialect more friendlier, and closer to common programming without those strange two phase constructors, handles, and special suffix names on member functions. So the community was starting to see the light of transition that was several years in the making, and out of the sudden, that "we are going Windows Phone 7" on a company that was UNIX first for several years. When I joined, all network software was originally targeting HP-UX, for example. So there wasn't much Microsoft love on the corridors.