Dual Booting may just be the ticket MS needs.

[RustyU]

What could Google do about it?

They could deny the phone a GMS licence.

 

[FearL0rd]

this could be a game change or they are shooting on the feet

 

[FearL0rd]

Dual booting on a smartphone sounds completely asinine. I don't see it having any appeal outside of those that heavily tinker with their phone. For the average consumer it just muddles everything and introduces new issues with performance (manufactures focus on optimizing being split between 2 OS's on one device) and making things more complicated than they need to be (having to manage 2 app stores on 2 OS's, data in apps not being 100% shared between both Android and WP).

Unbuntu has a single click installer for a while just (Next, Next and Finish)



Installing Ubuntu with the Windows installer | Ubuntu

 

[psudotechzealot]

I really don't understand what you're highlighting here.

I got the sarcasm, but need a little help with the point.

Market share is not the main factor, when it comes to Google making apps for WP8. If Facebook & Twitter can make apps for WP8(with WP8 having a low market share). Why not Google?

 

[psudotechzealot]

The only way I see this happening, If HTC strike a deal with CyanogenMod. Yeah I said it, CyanogenMod Built-in HTC phones.

 

[FearL0rd]

The only way I see this happening, If HTC strike a deal with CyanogenMod. Yeah I said it, CyanogenMod Built-in HTC phones.

No google apps for HTC Android also

 

[tgp]

Market share is not the main factor, when it comes to Google making apps for WP8. If Facebook & Twitter can make apps for WP8(with WP8 having a low market share). Why not Google?

Maybe Facebook and Twitter don't need as many users to make it pay as Google does. There are plenty of other companies besides Google who haven't made WP apps. And besides, Facebook hasn't made an app for WP.

 

[psudotechzealot]

Maybe Facebook and Twitter don't need as many users to make it pay as Google does.

Or Google refuse to support the WP8, Windows 8/8.1, & Surface platforms and most of the Google employees/fans & the media are using "market share" as a scapegoat. When in all actuality, they either want WP8 & Surface to be dead like the kin or want Microsoft to be punish for being "evil".

There are plenty of other companies besides Google who haven't made WP apps.

So. Outside of Google & Instagram, what other companies decided not to make an app for WP8, & change the API's, So, the third party apps would not work for WP8 users? If the market share is low for WP8 & you refuse to make apps for WP8, why cripple the third party apps? If it only about "market share"?

And besides, Facebook hasn't made an app for WP.

Yes, they have. How do you own a 520 and do not know this?