a5cent
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Windows mobile will be erased by windows 10 on arm.
Wrong... Wrong... Wrong.
W10M will NOT be "erased" by W10oA.
Why not? Because W10oA comes with all the same issues W10 has:
W10 and W10oA require continual maintenance and administration. For "non geeks" it's far too easy to screw something up and nobody likes being dependent on others to get their computing devices fixed. Consumers have no certainty that uninstalling software actually deletes all of it. It's impossible for MS to protect Win32 users from themselves. Win32 software neither knows nor cares about the restrictions typically placed on low power mobile devices... and it never will care (Win32 software is a power hog). Malware abounds... etc. Basically, everything that has given Windows a poor reputation.
W10M exists to remedy all those problems. W10oA remedies none of them! These are two completely different beasts. They technically overlap in only two ways: both run on ARM chips and they both run UWP apps. That's all. That's a pathetic amount of overlap for anything hoping to "erase" something else.
W10oA exists to solve one or more of these (completely unrelated) problems:
a) To reduce the price of portable Windows computers
b) To bring mobile SoC features to Windows computers
c) To popularize the UWP
It is true that W10oA will likely replace W10M on MS' mobile devices (at least for now). However, "replace" does not mean "erase". W10M will continue to be developed for quite some time yet.
If UWP ever becomes successfull (big "if"... I know), then W10M will make perfect sense again.
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