Smartphones with Windows 10 Mobile should think Steve Ballmer allow you to run applications written for Android.
Steve Ballmer is one of the biggest shareholders of Microsoft. In addition to great fondness for this company it is so interested in her as a very best financial results. At a recent meeting of the shareholders expressed their concern, among others, with respect to Windows 10 Mobile. In his opinion, focusing on the universal application (which can be run on different platforms: PCs, smartphones, Xbox, SmartWatch) is a big mistake because this concept “will not work”. He told his former colleagues that the only salvation for Windows Phone is to provide users the ability to run applications written for Android.
Project Astoria
It is worth to recall projects about Islandwood and Astoria, specific bridges connecting the Windows Store App Store and Google Play. Unfortunately, all it indicates that the project Astoria capable of using applications written for Android smartphone Windows has been suspended.
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Windows Store
The most important element is the availability of mobile platforms for wide range of applications stores. Unfortunately, the Windows Store significantly different in this respect from the competition – App Store and Google Play. Providing the possibility of using Android apps will uatrakcyjniłoby so the offer of “windowing” smartphones.
Is Ballmer right? I think so. But I wonder why this has not led when he was head of Microsoft?
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