Windows 10 Mobile Users Go Buy Samsung Galaxy S8 & S8+

[a5cent]

Windows Central now has an article on this: Samsung 'DeX' is Continuum for the Galaxy S8 — with support from Microsoft | Windows Central

True. It likely is what the OP is referring too. However, that has absolutely nothing to do with UWP. I also see absolutely no way in which Samsung introducing something like continuum on their Android phones would help the UWP or W10M's app situation. If anything it's more likely to kill it than help the UWP. Samsung's approach is just a different and entirely incompatible solution to the same problem MS' continuum solves.

 

[nasznjoka]

But the the general public would get used to it.. Samsung could be doing marketing for Microsoft until when they are ready

 

[a5cent]

Re: Windows 10 Mobile Users Go Buy Samsung Galaxy S8 & S8+

^ if the general public gets used to this continuum like feature on a platform that has absolutely nothing to do with the UWP, and most Android app devs update their apps to make use of Dex (a very big "if") then it's likely game-over for continuum on Windows. I'm not sure UWP could survive that...


Dex's existence also very much undermines MS' marketing message, where continuum was really the only unique and desirable feature MS still has. Even if MS' UWP based solution is better, Dex's existence will allow enough people to say "my Android device does it too, so there is no need for me to look at a different ecosystem that I'm less familiar with". That's exactly what killed WP. There were always a lot of little things WP did better, a few big drawbacks, and never a big enough differentiator that would entice people to look past the drawbacks... Continuum could be that differentiator for W10M, but not if Dex works well enough.