An hour ago I was reading that however much Microsoft can regret giving up on Windows Phone, but the reality was that app developers didn’t want to support a small third platform. Gaming today has Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. Porting games can be nearly automatic, but you’re still publishing to a fourth platform with an install base not accustomed to playing games.
We have heard this flirtation before, and with no pun intended, it is going to lose steam, and the cycle will continue no matter how much they want to court game developers for VR.
An hour ago I was reading that however much Microsoft can regret giving up on Windows Phone, but the reality was that app developers didn’t want to support a small third platform. Gaming today has Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. Porting games can be nearly automatic, but you’re still publishing to a fourth platform with an install base not accustomed to playing games.
We have heard this flirtation before, and with no pun intended, it is going to lose steam, and the cycle will continue no matter how much they want to court game developers for VR.
In the B2B world it’s even worse. Developers want to stick with iOS and not even build on Android.
Microsoft should have skinned the Windows Phone UI on top of Android and called it a day.