Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

  • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    For real. AOSP is open source, and Google is taking more things private. MS could start driving AOSP since FOSS projects go where the group contributing the most wants it to go.

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      1 year ago

      That would force them to adopt different languages internally though. I don’t know what they are doing these days, but something tells me it’s not kotlin and jetpack.

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        1 year ago

        They’re already talking up .NET MAUI. Their cross-platform C# application UI.

        I’m also not sure MS cares that much if that gets them in the game.

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        1 year ago

        That’s really not a big barrier. Just add a couple folks with experience in the desired tech and any good dev team will continue to be a good dev team, even if everything changed under them.

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          Absolutely, they could if they wanted to and they do have Android devs on staff for the Xbox app. I just get the impression there isn’t a lot of focus put on those efforts (given the state and featureset of said Android app). But, they could focus on it if they really cared about it. Problem is, it’s an unknown to the C level execs so it’s probably too risky to spend money on. Gotta keep those shareholder profits up or risk their positions.