<story><title>Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27992439</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>What this says to me as a developer in the Microsoft ecosystem (admittedly, enterprise side and not mobile):&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Four years ago we had you writing all your apps using Silverlight.  Two years ago we chucked that out the window (ahahahaha) and told you to switch over to WinRT.  Now we&amp;#x27;re going Android.  We hope you&amp;#x27;ve got the message by now.  But in case you haven&amp;#x27;t, let us restate it in plain English:  Dear developers, GO THE @$#!% AWAY.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>I think the real message is:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Hey, we&amp;#x27;re a company. We have things. That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean users use our things, or that developing for said things is going make you money or a userbase. That requires looking at the market and seeing where &lt;i&gt;users&lt;/i&gt; are.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They create the supply side. If there is no demand, blindly working in their tools is just a silly mistake. I think it has been plainly demonstrated nothing Windows Phone offers entices the mobile market away from Android en masse at this point.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27992439</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>What this says to me as a developer in the Microsoft ecosystem (admittedly, enterprise side and not mobile):&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Four years ago we had you writing all your apps using Silverlight.  Two years ago we chucked that out the window (ahahahaha) and told you to switch over to WinRT.  Now we&amp;#x27;re going Android.  We hope you&amp;#x27;ve got the message by now.  But in case you haven&amp;#x27;t, let us restate it in plain English:  Dear developers, GO THE @$#!% AWAY.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pling</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t say that to me. It says: &amp;quot;Nokia baggage&amp;quot;. That is all.&lt;p&gt;Either way, I&amp;#x27;m not writing another damn mobile app or picking up another damn smartphone again. It&amp;#x27;s all totally crazy bananas now. I&amp;#x27;d rather write win32 again with a broken-ass compiler.</text></comment>