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There's an update to this article about a few minutes ago: Update: Microsoft has clarified, and appliations built for WP8 will not run on WP7.5/7.8 (native C/C+
by cygwin98 14y ago
There's an update to this article about a few minutes ago:
Update: Microsoft has clarified, and appliations built for WP8 will not run on WP7.5/7.8 (native C/C++ appliations), we're asking for more details.
That would bother me if those new apps can't be run on WP7.
- barista 14y agoOnly the new apps that use features (e.g. native support) not available on older phones will not work on older phones. Is that not how iOS and android upgrade too?
- onetwothreefour 14y agoNo, that's not how iOS or Android upgrades work because those companies specced out their platforms before launching them to market. You can't just "add native support" after the fact. That's a major addition which should have been there from day one.
- mtgx 14y agoSo basically anyone who is writing an app for WP8 will have to start with a market share of 0% and 0 units in the market.
- barista 14y agoNope. They start with market share of all installed windows phone. Plus they have all the windows desktop/tablet users who could use their app as well.
- onetwothreefour 14y agoWell, you're wrong because WP7 is now pretty much dead. So there's literally no reason to target it, and anything written in C/C++ is only going to run on WP8. So they've pretty much killed off their already lagging platform in preference for a new lagging platform with 0 installed base. Microsoft are smoking some serious crack. I'm glad our company didn't spend a second developing for WP. What a clusterf*ck.
- untog 14y agoThat update is confusing in itself. I think it means that native C++ apps will not run, but others will. Still unclear, though.