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Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8?
Un pobre guey writes "Should you develop apps for Windows 8? Well, the hype and flogging are apparently in full swing. From the article: 'To be clear, Windows Phone 8 is not a slam dunk. Some, such as IDC, believe Windows Phone will eclipse iOS by 2016. Others, though, believe the trajectories of Android and iOS can't be slowed in the next few years. Nonetheless, I think a bet on Windows Phone 8 is justifiable, even wise, since anyone who purchases a new Windows Phone 8 device likely will want to load it with the latest and greatest apps.'"
Another reader points out that the full Windows Phone 8 SDK was leaked online recently, which led to some interesting discoveries: "For starters, it appears that the API is very much like the full WinRT API, but it has no JavaScript support. There is also no support for creating and working with Silverlight/XNA style. This is a bit surprising because I and most developers were under the impression that Microsoft would support the migration of Silverlight apps to HTML5 and JavaScript, but there isn't even support for JavaScript to access the phone's services. The best you can hope for is using the JavaScript support in IE10."
They are spending a lot of money trolling on /. To many one comment accounts telling how great MS products are going even though they suck now .
This is my last last Slashdot post. I'm tired of hearing the bashing of free markets. I'm tired of the bashing of Microsoft (exists in a free market) and Apple (also exists in a free market).
What have any of you actually accomplished over the last 20 years? Do you really think Valve is going to keep supporting you when the amount of messages bitching at them about how they should force nVidia and ATI to release their drivers exceeds by 10000000 percent the Valve programmers quitting because they have to support so many freaking libraries for every version and release of Linux that and its requirements?
Linux was a good idea, then the zealots got a hold of it and now its a pile of crap.
Time spent on arguing over what which WM is the best at fixing all of X's crap and pushing nay screaming at people how awesome Linux is and your grandma will totally pick it up (been hearing that for 15 years) and no innovation and vmware totally making the 1970's time share and the 90's thin client an actual reality and doing it right, well
Linux is crap, deal with it. Don't argue with me, don't lie to yourself, fix it.
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Just seeing if it works.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
They're not even shills. It's the same crap as the people shouting "First post!". Being a pretend shill is just the new go-to troll in Apple/Microsoft stories because it invokes a bigger reaction.
M$ after XP is full scale 100% fail.
Anything they make design or suggest is utter complete bullsh1t.
You can't buy intelligence or the courts apparently.
Devs, stay the sh1t away from these golfing suv driving pinot swilling tech blunderers. Booyah we'll fuckin CRUSH google!!!
They have lost all capacity to innovate in any arena.
Why invest your mind and resources in the digital equivalent of scientology? For profit? ahahahahahhhhhhhaaaaahahahhhhhhahaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!@@