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Microsoft dropped the ball with Universal Windows Platform framework, I worked on one project using this framework and it was one the best. Our codebase run on

Microsoft dropped the ball with Universal Windows Platform framework, I worked on one project using this framework and it was one the best. Our codebase run on both phone and desktop Windows 8. This was 2014-ish if I remember, and then Windows phone got killed.

yunnpp 9mo ago
I still have my Nokia Lumia around. Best phone I ever had. And I say this hating everything about Microsoft and Windows. That phone clicked just right with the tile design and overall usability. Of course, MS having pulled the plug, it's basically a DRM brick now.
- lawgimenez 9mo ago
  Truly an underrated phone, this was my wife's phone when we met. Developing for Windows 8 was one of the best imo, I don't know any C# prior to it but it was just so easy, native and fast.
- jokethrowaway 9mo ago
  I agree but that's because both iOS and Android are pretty bad in several ways. MeeGo from Nokia was pretty amazing as well and I'm sure it could have launched Linux phones into actual competitors to iOS and Android - if only Microsoft and Elop didn't manage to kill Linux at Nokia.
  - okanat 9mo ago
    If Microsoft didn't kill it, lack of YouTube and other Google services would. That was the primary difference. With iPhone you had access to Google-owned stuff, Google never allowed other platforms like Symbian/MeeGo/Windows Phone to ever use its online services. The game was broken from the start. Microsoft had no chance.
- hshdhdhj4444 9mo ago
  I had a cheap $25 Lumia (520?) that was the most delightful phone I used. If it wasn’t for 3rd parties sunsetting their apps, there would have been no reason to give it up. Despite being a highly underpowered dirt cheap phone it was incredibly smooth and fast to use.
LeFantome 9mo ago
You would really like Uno Platform. It is the same API. https://platform.uno/platform/ https://platform.uno/platform/
pjmlp 9mo ago
Spot on, .NET Native and C++/CX on top of COM is what .NET 1.0 should have been all about. Unfortunately it was a big ball of mud in mismanagement.

yunnpp 9mo ago

I still have my Nokia Lumia around. Best phone I ever had. And I say this hating everything about Microsoft and Windows. That phone clicked just right with the tile design and overall usability. Of course, MS having pulled the plug, it's basically a DRM brick now.

lawgimenez 9mo ago
Truly an underrated phone, this was my wife's phone when we met. Developing for Windows 8 was one of the best imo, I don't know any C# prior to it but it was just so easy, native and fast.
jokethrowaway 9mo ago
I agree but that's because both iOS and Android are pretty bad in several ways. MeeGo from Nokia was pretty amazing as well and I'm sure it could have launched Linux phones into actual competitors to iOS and Android - if only Microsoft and Elop didn't manage to kill Linux at Nokia.
- okanat 9mo ago
  If Microsoft didn't kill it, lack of YouTube and other Google services would. That was the primary difference. With iPhone you had access to Google-owned stuff, Google never allowed other platforms like Symbian/MeeGo/Windows Phone to ever use its online services. The game was broken from the start. Microsoft had no chance.
hshdhdhj4444 9mo ago
I had a cheap $25 Lumia (520?) that was the most delightful phone I used. If it wasn’t for 3rd parties sunsetting their apps, there would have been no reason to give it up. Despite being a highly underpowered dirt cheap phone it was incredibly smooth and fast to use.

LeFantome 9mo ago

You would really like Uno Platform. It is the same API. https://platform.uno/platform/ https://platform.uno/platform/

pjmlp 9mo ago

Spot on, .NET Native and C++/CX on top of COM is what .NET 1.0 should have been all about. Unfortunately it was a big ball of mud in mismanagement.