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The core operating system swap. Taking a desktop operating system and shrinking it down to run on a phone is no easy task. In fact, it's a gargantuan undertakin
by Metrop0218 14y ago
The core operating system swap. Taking a desktop operating system and shrinking it down to run on a phone is no easy task. In fact, it's a gargantuan undertaking. Add a bunch of new end user features and you get that the amount of technical work that is going into WP8 is phenomenal. However, the windows phone engineering team is superb. I have no doubt's that both consumers and developers will be thoroughly impressed come holiday season.
- peonies 14y agoTaking a desktop operating system and shrinking it down to run on a phone is no easy task. In fact, it's a gargantuan undertaking. iOS is a shrunken version of OSX, while Android is a barely shrunken version of Linux. Aren't all modern mobile platforms shrunken versions of desktop operating systems?
- cdh 14y agoWho is to say those weren't gargantuan undertakings as well? The relationship between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 is closer than that, though. My understanding is that both will make calls to the same WinRT APIs, meaning a significant amount of code (and the XAML defining the UI) can be shared between both platforms. That's a very different relationship than Mac OS has with iOS (where the UI differences are significant) or Android has with Linux (where there is almost nothing in common between X and Android's UI).
- fpgeek 14y agoShrunken or cherry-picked? There's a pretty big difference in development effort between the two.
- ashayh 14y agoIt is a very difficult task, but made easier by the fact that mobile CPUs/GPUs have improved greatly in the past few years.