Wait for it...something major is coming to Windows Phone!

[deadwrong03]

So what is it and when are e supposed to find out wtf
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[drtek]

Well
McLaren cancelled. That will do it.

 

[fdalbor]

They are going to fire everyone that has screwed up WP 8 so bad and replace them with robots from Amazon and start over. AGAIN

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[fdalbor]

As all the phones are made in China anyway, Microsoft is being bought by a big firm from China/India and the old Indian CEO will go back home to run it.

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[fdalbor]

Google and Apple are going to combine and buy out Microsoft and BlackBerry and all smart phones will now use an OS called AppDroid and be made in Korea.

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[fdalbor]

Just a little humor as things are getting to serious when you consider we are getting upset about a telephone. The world will not end if something does happen or even if it does not.

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[ohgood]

hasn't quite been a month yet, did something major happen yet ?

 

[Pranshul Sood]

exactly i was wondering too :/

 

[fatclue_98]

hasn't quite been a month yet, did something major happen yet ?

You must have missed it, Germany won the World Cup. Aside from that, it's all quiet.


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[ohgood]

You must have missed it, Germany won the World Cup. Aside from that, it's all quiet.


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That explains why folks in the us have gone back to talking about nascar instead of sports.

 

[drtek]

That explains why folks in the us have gone back to talking about nascar instead of sports.

Excellent. I just found out what that stands for. (NON Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks.)

 

[fatclue_98]

They should just call it Rednecks Who Can't Turn Right. Not a good acronym but it fits.

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[ohgood]

Excellent. I just found out what that stands for. (NON Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks.)

loll that's fantastic

 

[Wall-SWE]

What was this major thing? Its been a while now and nothing has been shown off or released to support his statement..

 

[Beijendorf]

What was this major thing? Its been a while now and nothing has been shown off or released to support his statement..

Barnacules was a software developer at Microsoft, and there's a software announcement expected on the 30th of September.

 

[Wall-SWE]

Thanks!

 

[Wall-SWE]

Still interested in knowing what he meant. 30th of September passed and nothing groundbreaking was revealed..

 

[a5cent]

MS has another SW conference coming up in November.

I think MS will announce a tool chain that allows developers to write a .net WP app which the tools can then automatically translate into an objective C/Java based iOS/Android app.

This would be MS' way of convincing companies to develop for WP. Pay for app development once, but get three.

This approach would be completely free of all the negative side effects that come with allowing Android apps to run on WP, it would help solve WP's biggest problem (the app quality gap), and I think this would very much upset both Google and Apple.

 

[KhawarNadeem]

MS has another SW conference coming up in November.

I think MS will announce a tool chain that allows developers to write a .net WP app which the tools can then automatically translate into an objective C/Java based iOS/Android app.

This would be MS' way of convincing companies to develop for WP. Pay for app development once, but get three.

This approach would be completely free of all the negative side effects that come with allowing Android apps to run on WP, it would help solve WP's biggest problem (the app quality gap), and I think this would very much upset both Google and Apple.

Would that be the SAME interface on all platforms? But that's not great! Apps that aren't made with the OS's design language wouldn't look as nice

 

[a5cent]

Would that be the SAME interface on all platforms? But that's not great! Apps that aren't made with the OS's design language wouldn't look as nice

I have no idea. I'm just guessing at what could have been meant. :wink:

Up until very recently there was no unified design language for Android, and what Google has come up with now does look very similar to what WP has had since day one. I think that could be manageable without anyone realising that the Android app was derived from WP. I don't know how well that would work on iOS, but considering iOS doesn't have a lot of guidelines that relate to navigation/interaction either, that seems manageable to me too. I'd have to study this a lot more though to be sure. It's just a hunch.

Anyway, as long as such a technology uses each OSes own UI library to do the actual UI rendering (similar to Java's SWT), I think MS could realize something that offers a great experience on each platform, despite each app being derived/translated from a WP code base. If such apps use their own rendering library, so that UI elements on Android and iOS look identical to WP, then I agree that such an approach is very likely to fail (similar to how Java's Swing has pretty much failed for look&feel and performance reasons).