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The thing that bothers me the most about this is that Microsoft pretty much confirmed yesterday that the XBox One is running some form of the Windows Runtime.
by lucid00 13y ago
The thing that bothers me the most about this is that Microsoft pretty much confirmed yesterday that the XBox One is running some form of the Windows Runtime.
(Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-runs-three-operating-systems/ http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-runs-three-opera...)
So if I want to make an app work across Windows RT, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and the XBox One, I have to submit three separate apps that are all coded the same way, to three different app stores.
Why couldn't Microsoft just bring the Windows 8 marketplace to XBox One and Windows Phone 8?
That alone would fix the indie self-publishing problem and in turn make the XBox One more appealing.
- wmf 13y agoMouse vs. touch vs. controller is one thing. MS would probably also like to avoid buggy apps that have only been tested on one platform. WORA has never really worked, so if you want to release your app on four platforms you need to test it four times. Compared to the testing, submitting to four app stores seems like a small cost.
- lucid00 13y ago"so if you want to release your app on four platforms you need to test it four times." Wouldn't submitting 4 separate apps require the same amount of attention (if not more)?