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I made 5 apps early on and 6 months into it I realized there was no money in it. The dev tools and environment is probably the best in mobile development. It'

I made 5 apps early on and 6 months into it I realized there was no money in it. The dev tools and environment is probably the best in mobile development. It's unfortunate they can't break through.

frik 11y ago
Visual Studio is good, but why does MS stick to the XML and GUIDs. e.g. XAML in WPF/Silverlight/WinPhone/WinRuntime/UnversalApp has a charm from 2005 and feels outdated. It's also used in SharePoint as data format. Reminds me of OLE2 and it's com siblings.
tobltobs 11y ago
My experience is just the other way round. There is some easy money if you also develop an universal app for the non phone as store. But the winrt environment is much to limited and the the dev environment is not competetive. It blows my mind how hard MS is failing in the phone market the last few years.
beagle3 11y ago
I think it is fortunate for the rest of the world that they can't break through. The reason Microsoft is behaving reasonably lately is exactly because they've been having problems breaking through - in fact, staying relevant - in the modern age.
jmkni 11y ago
I agree with you on the dev tools. That's why I would like Xamarin Forms to improve, it uses the same XAML/MVVM/C# setup that Windows Phone does, and is a joy to work with. It's just very limited at the moment.
bitmapbrother 11y ago
>dev tools and environment is probably the best in mobile development. I installed the latest Visual Studio. I think it installed about 30 applications and sprayed over 15GB of files all over my HDD. That's a pretty nasty environment. I'd rather use Android Studio from IntelliJ.