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by hugh4life 5270 days ago
BTW, you're right... the biggest thing keeping Windows Phone 7 back is a C++ development option.

They could also benefit the platform a lot by either backing MonoTouch/MonoDroid hard or come out with their own way of running .Net on those platforms. Oracle has already ported Java ME's JVM to both iOS and Android for running JavaFX applications.

http://drdobbs.com/blogs/jvm/231900029
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bmajz 5270 days ago
That might help with games that really need to eke out performance, but there are a lot of simpler apps that could be enabled and aren't there yet. Things like Mint or TaskRabbit for example, likely would not use native code. Seems to me like the major issue holding developers back is not the lack of tools, but rather the flat adoption rates.
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hugh4life 5270 days ago
"Seems to me like the major issue holding developers back is not the lack of tools, but rather the flat adoption rates."

Well, there's a chicken an egg problem here. Microsoft will have flat adoption rates as long as they're in 3rd(or worse) place and they don't make it easier to target their afterthought of a platform with code used to target iOS and android... or vice versa.

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