wasn't this stuff long covered by WC way back... the patents and what not. Forbes is just regurgitating no?
Not trying to discredit, maybe need to temper expectations a bit
I really don't expect anything phone sized running windows core OS for awhile. Unless they do some huge launch with multiple coreOS devices and run at it hard, but I still think stepwise towards smaller and smaller makes more sense.
A) It builds development from a point of strength in the market (laptops and tablets)
B) It gives PWA time to naturally flourish
C) It gives time for other OEMS to pick up each form factore.
The next obvious step is something more like a notepad, a smaller folding tablet with a pen. Maybe with telephony, or at least running ARM with LTE. There's the incoming snapdragon with would be perfect, and the form factor would still be big enough, with the pen, to use win32s, whilst finding a strong niche market with creatives, journalists, meetings, doctors, psychiatrists etc.
A phone is all good and well, but it needs an ecosystem that's competitive. Releasing that prior to the aforementioned larger devices is like a bridge without supports. I'm a fan of MS, I believe andromeda or whatever, a phone sized thingo will happen, I just don't think it's time yet.
Actually if both folding tablets and a public release of hololens were in market, doing well, PWA was bigger, timing would be perfect (could build in some AR to boot).
, probably still too early though)
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