Microsoft releases an iOS to Windows bridge. This is actually a good idea. There are over a million apps in the iOS app store, nearly none of them are discoverable.
Microsoft releases an iOS to Windows bridge.
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Microsoft releases an iOS to Windows bridge. This is actually a good idea. There are over a million apps in the iOS app store, nearly none of them are discoverable.
John Hardy Developer 
Let me take a filtered selfie with a big desktop AIO PC with a half assed port of an iOS app. Taking selfies with phones is cliche.
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Windows Bridge for iOS (also referred to as WinObjC) is a Microsoft open source project that provides an Objective-C development environment for Visual Studio/Windows
This will let developers build native objective-c apps using Windows and Visual Studio. That’s the real purpose I’ll bet; trying to reverse the movement of devs from Windows to Macbooks.
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Could be. It’s all related to the loss of developer mindshare. I still wouldn’t discount the desire to fill the Windows app store with higher quality apps. I saw some Windows tablets being sold at JB hifi recently. They look good but desperately lack apps. Windows Phone did not deliver the expected ecosystem.
Also Microsoft is aiming at Android developers for the same reasons.
Developers. Developers. Developers.
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If anything about Jolla and BB10 has thought, ported in apps = no mind share. Then again the MS app store curation leaves much to be desired for ported apps to gain traction. So much garbage in the MS store.
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Indeed it’s garbage but it’s not a bed of roses for iOS developers either. Few if any are making money in the Apple app store.
With this there is at least a chance that there will be a blip of renewed attention if an old app gets repurposed for Windows.
This assumes however that it will be a fairly effortless port which of course is a big assumption.
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http://www.winbeta.org/news/tool-can-side-load-android-apps-windows-10-mobile-leaks –> Android apps on WMo now.
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