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They were already working on Windows Phone when Ballmer said that. That’s why he said it. They were targeting a lower cost segment. Android, courtesy of being
by DrBenCarson 1y ago
They were already working on Windows Phone when Ballmer said that. That’s why he said it. They were targeting a lower cost segment.
Android, courtesy of being open source, was just able to move much faster
I think if they had just open sourced the OS, like Android, instead of killing it, Windows Phone could have been a decent Android competitor
- sheepscreek 1y agoI think so. Heck, why don’t they open source it now? Although my guess is it’s a lot of low level C++ that I wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole. But I’ve been surprised before. What if they used dotnet?
- microtherion 1y agoI suspect it shared quite a bit of code with the regular windows codebase, so open sourcing it would have exposed a lot of proprietary code (and not necessarily only their own — there may have been licensed bits that they would not even have been allowed to open source).