Comment by dagaci
8 years ago
One of the biggest failures of windows mobile was constant abandonment and reset,
+ all the mobile developers and users from the pre-iphone days were simply dropped with no path to wp7,
+ the earliest and devs of wp7 were all dropped in favour of wp8,
+ MS execs then approved of a slightly less damaging strategy with 8 to Wp10 but at this time it was already too late
Microsoft could not solve the app-gap problem because the problem was caused by a lack of trust.
This. But wait, in order to further harmonize "cloud first mobile first experiences" they may be deeply pleased to announce one more important transition from UWP to OneCore.
UWP is getting new features all the time, it's the way forward for Windows apps and will stay for many years to come. Even all the default Windows 10 apps and stuff like settings UI are UWP.
OneCore is an internal Windows refactor that won't affect users nor developers.