Comment by naikrovek
8 years ago
This doesn't mean anything, to me. I just read "Windows 10 Mobile as a standalone OS is going away." Remember that Windows OneCore is a thing, and that Windows on Arm is a thing. They are eliminating all the "one-off" operating systems and consolidating all of the features into OneCore.
I am not pining for Windows Mobile (despite owning several throughout the past decade) I just think that Windows OneCore will make Windows available on phones again if Microsoft ever have a good reason to enter the mobile market again.
Might be, but given how they managed the whole story, they will get UWP apps that work by accident on phones.
Just like Google and Apple get phone apps that work by accident on tablets, but feel out of place otherwise.
UWP apps that work by accident on phones is not a bad strategy, though. Good application design is responsive, same reason responsive became a huge buzzword in web dev. Even if you are just designing with Desktop in mind: there are hundreds of combinations of monitor resolutions and DPI settings, and everyone has their own personal preferences for how they arrange applications on those monitors. Windows apps have always been resizable and there are always people that will want to shrink app windows to tiny phone sizes while they work on other things.
what do you mean "by accident?" UWP works across Windows 10 platforms by design.
Just because UWP targets all Windows 10 platforms, it doesn't mean a developer will take all of them into account.
Currently most UWP developers only care about desktop as target platform, so if it happens to work and be a good UI/UX in a e.g. 7" display it will be by accident.
One needs to take responsive design and API contracts into account, to make a good UI/UX across all supported platforms.