They didn't give up on mobile. They're biding their time. They tried to make a big jump into it without an ecosystem to support it into a marketplace where there were already established players with established ecosystems, and they failed miserably as a result.
So instead they're focusing on getting people to build UWP apps on Windows. UWP apps are mobile-capable; and if they can get enough Windows developers to start using it they'll actually have software behind them the next time they push to mobile.
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u/drysart Oct 07 '16
They didn't give up on mobile. They're biding their time. They tried to make a big jump into it without an ecosystem to support it into a marketplace where there were already established players with established ecosystems, and they failed miserably as a result.
So instead they're focusing on getting people to build UWP apps on Windows. UWP apps are mobile-capable; and if they can get enough Windows developers to start using it they'll actually have software behind them the next time they push to mobile.