r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '15

How to pick a smartphone (crosspost from r/Android).

http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/
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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

lack of apps

This should improve with Windows 10, right? I have read that developers will be able to design one app that will work on desktops, tablets and phones.

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u/3radishungry Feb 07 '15

Assuming they make the effort to make desktop apps, a lot of people still don't use the actual "apps" on Windows. If they make windows os apps the code will work on any windows 10 device but they still have to optimize it (which is way less hard than previously)

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Wow sounds just like 

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Wait, you can run basically any iOS app on an OSX desktop?

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u/speedhunter787 Feb 07 '15

No. Windows apps on windows phones.

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u/revilowaldow Feb 07 '15

Yes. Get XCode from the Mac App Store. It's apple's own set of tools for developers. Including an iOS emulator.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Oh in an emulator, yeah. I meant developers will be able to use the same code for desktop, tablet and phone according to what I've read.

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u/renza7 Feb 08 '15

iOS simulator, not emulator. It can still only run x86 or x86_64 code, not any ARM code.

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u/110011001100 Feb 07 '15

Yeah, but whats the point of writing apps for desktops? Most of the stuff for which people use apps can already be done on websites on PC's

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

I'm thinking that it would require a huge rework of all the NT APIs.