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by seba_dos1 17 days ago
They had no developers familiar with these Microsoft APIs as Windows Phone was starting from scratch with new APIs that were incompatible with neither Win32 nor WinCE/Windows Mobile. The only thing that could save them that they were betting on was that these new APIs were also made available on desktops, but were pretty much ignored by developers there as well and ended up largely replaced with an even newer set of technologies.

Compare that with Maemo, where both GTK+ and Qt were first class citizens and which had an army of developers familiar with Unix and X11 before Maemo even existed.
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mjg59 17 days ago
GTK wasn't a first class citizen in Meego.
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seba_dos1 16 days ago
Never claimed it was.
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mjg59 16 days ago
Nor was it in the final versions of Maemo, if you want to be pedantic.
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seba_dos1 16 days ago
Nor was Qt in its first versions, but how is this adding value to the conversation? Both of them were first-class in Maemo 5 and that's when the developers were clearly being attracted to the platform which is what I was talking about above. Harmattan was already DoA.
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