Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The post-iPhone era: What Apple can learn from Microsoft" video.

  1. Microsoft has tried so hard to be like Apple -- look at Windows Phone. And what is UWP, if not yet another attempt at a “closed ecosystem”? Only its abandoning the use of UWP for its Edge browser is hardly a good advertisement for that ...
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  2. Apple Watch has been around for a few years now, it has yet to be a success.
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  3.  @bri1085  Chromium is not UWP-based. So to move to it, they had to abandon UWP.
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  4. @Jamie Sharknado UWP is not cross-platform. In order to make Edge cross-platform, Microsoft had to abandon UWP.
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  5.  @bri1085  Edge has been Windows-10-only, because UWP is Windows-10-only. So to free it from Windows 10, they have to abandon UWP.
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  6.  @bri1085  The UWP version of Edge is dead -- it is being replaced with a non-UWP version. So yes, Microsoft is abandoning UWP for just about its highest-profile UWP-using app. That’s not a good advertisement for anybody else looking to adopt UWP.
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  7.  @bri1085  They won’t be left “without a browser”, since there are still third-party options available.
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  8.  @bri1085  No, Windows 10 will not be running a UWP-based Edge browser any more. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-confirms-plans-rebuild-edge-ground-using-chromium-windows-10
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  9. Microsoft has not found “alternative revenue sources”. Nothing else it is doing has brought in profits anywhere near the scale of Windows and Office. In fact, a lot of it is losing money: aQuantive, Danger/Hiptop, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mojang/Minecraft, Nokia, Skype ... would you count any of that a success?
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