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“they really needed to have Android apps compatibility mode till they gained enough market share”

I think Microsoft remembers how that approach worked for OS/2 and Windows compatibility mode.

Developers would think “we don’t need to develop for Windows phone” and users would think “I’ll buy a real android phone and not a phone that emulates it, and lags its software by half a year, and will have bugs”




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