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Most iPad apps have iPhone equivalents, or are built and distributed as a single app for both platforms. Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 does not appear to have
by Lewisham 14y ago
Most iPad apps have iPhone equivalents, or are built and distributed as a single app for both platforms.
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 does not appear to have this functionality. There was rumors of WP8 apps being usable on Windows 8, but I highly doubt it'll go the other way.
Users should not be expected to see two devices, which have equal interfaces (just a smaller form factor) and realize they are different, especially seeing how iOS/Android has trained them to think they are the same.
- vyrotek 14y agoI was under the impression that the whole reason Microsoft was pushing 'the style formally known as Metro' on Windows, Surface and Phones was so that it would be possible to easily port apps across everything. I'm a .Net developer so I'm genuinely interested in this topic. I figured it wouldn't be as easy as just changing the UI dimensions, but I thought the new architecture with WinRT and stuff would provide enough commonality API-wise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_8 Simplified porting of Windows 8 apps to Windows Phone 8 (compatibility with Windows 8 Metro apps) On June 20, 2012, Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8, a new generation of the operating system for release later in 2012. Windows Phone 8 will replace its previously Windows CE-based architecture with one based off the Windows NT kernel with many components shared with Windows 8, allowing applications to be easily ported between the two platforms.
- Lewisham 14y agoI think this is something we'll just have to wait and see on, AFAIK we don't know what the APIs and such on WP8 are yet.