Comment by sangnoir
2 years ago
> As someone who owned a Windows phone around that time, and knew others who did as well, the shared opinion was that it was a pile of crap.
and had no apps. Windows Phone/Mobile had atrocious developer share. There few apps that were available were of terrible quality. Ironic, considering this happened in the era of a sweaty Balmer screaming "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!"[1]
Compared with Android, to this day, WinRT development experience is like being in heaven.
It took Android 10 years, for something like AGK to come up, and even then it is a mess of development experience.