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by magic_haze 4513 days ago
The entire reason why WP is lacking traction is because of IOS and Android's ecosystems, not because of any special merits in their OS code. Indeed, that is also why Windows proper is still dominant on desktop. Throwing away compatibility with the ecosystem would be the height of folly. (Also, there are office clients for all these platforms: they don't work as well as they do in Windows, but they do exist)