From: jgd@cix.co.uk   
      
   In article <10e0omq$n2t$14@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence   
   D_Oliveiro) wrote:   
      
   > Remember Windows Phone? Microsoft was actually paying developers to   
   > put apps on its platform. But in its user experience it was trying   
   > too much to ape Apple, which is why it lost out to Android.   
      
   That wasn't the problem. The difficulty was that people didn't actually   
   want to use Windows Phone.   
      
   Microsoft wanted the user experience to be like desktop Windows, but   
   since doing that directly was clearly impractical, they changed Windows   
   (at Windows 8) to be their idea of a phone OS. And everyone hated the   
   Windows 8 user interface, and were thus put off Windows Phone.   
      
   Microsoft tried to get my employer to offer our toolkit libraries for   
   WinRT and Windows RT. We use a domain-specific language that compiles to   
   C, not C++. It didn't appear to be possible to compile C for WinRT (or   
   later, for Windows Store apps). The compiler options for that didn't work   
   with C files. Microsoft insisted it was possible, but could never tell us   
   how. We gave up on them, and stuck to producing ordinary Windows DLLs,   
   Linux .so libraries and macOS dylibs.   
      
   John   
      
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