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by thebosz 3081 days ago
One thing I'm not seeing is people talking about the reason Microsoft created UWP: as a competitor to responsive web frameworks that could run on their Continuum and Windows on ARM platforms.

Full stop.

Of course, the second they abandoned Windows Mobile, it made UWP irrelevant (not that it was terribly relevant anyway).

Absolutely no one* wants to build an app that works only on Windows 10 desktops, Xbox and IoT devices. There's no use for that.

*Obvious hyperbole.