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shinogami is offline shinogami
2012-06-21 , 16:25
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#87
Originally Posted by Cue View Post
No, because the cross platform tools will not work on WP7.8 because cross platform tool developers do not have native code support. App developers cannot use a cross platform tool to target WP7.8 because the cross-platform tool does not and cannot support WP7.8, the developer would have to rewrite apps for WP7.8 specifically. By "throwing away their current know how" they would be trying to save themselves time and money.
Aren't cross platform tools the very same tools people use today to write apps for WP7.5? Remember, apps written for WP7.5 will also work with WP8. The only scenario in which the developers will need to specifically target WP7.8 is when they first specifically target WP8. You're assuming most developers will immediately move to the new tools. To me, that just seems unlikely (even for the fact that for a while at least WP7.8 will still make the vast majority of WP devices). But yeah, as I said before, I don't really know anything about software development.
Last edited by shinogami; 2012-06-21 at 16:30.