Comment by criddell
8 years ago
> Sooner or later there will be x86 based phones
Sure, but right now Apple and their ARM designs are running away from everybody else. Plus Windows is terrible from a security and power consumption point of view. Can Microsoft fix that without breaking everything?
I think MS is conceding the entire phone space. Full screen form factors (like laptops is and large tablets) are very important but for small devices I don't think they can compete.
> Windows is terrible from a security and power consumption point of view
Windows is way ahead in both security and power efficiency.
About security, here’s an example: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh2029...
I'm talking about x86 Windows. Windows Phone is dead.
The fact that a viable mobile OS has to be restrictive about background operations is exactly what I was talking about when I said they can't fix it without breaking everything.
But they already fixed it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15434931
Exactly. Microsoft is abandoning phone, but I imagine they'll still exist in the business-tablet area.
They Brought back WinRT, or rather this month's new Desktop RTM build has an ARM64 version. It'll probably run low-power low-cost tablet/phablets, maybe even be put on a phone if 10 starts seeing more metro apps at some date.
I mean that capability is where the desktop version of windows keeps getting more features matching; each version of Phone and Desktop have been more and more like each-other.
> Plus Windows is terrible from a security and power consumption point of view. Can Microsoft fix that without breaking everything?
Nonsense
https://np.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/74xc2z/windows_an...
https://np.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/6ifyxq/spotify_for_...