Perhaps that's a neat demo of skills, but why would anyone outside of the programmers' community want to replace Android with Windows on a phone?
Perhaps they miss the occasional BSOD.
Continuity, we’ll need to see Wintenpointone.
Have you counted the number of FReepers who disdain Apple and would never get an Apple phone or tablet, but who also don't like Google and thus would prefer not to hold Android in their hand every day?
Those folks probably would be thrilled to have a real Windows computer in their hand, something Windows Phone could not quite be.
Hell, I have an iPhone that I like, and even I would be tempted to buy an Android just to have a pocket-sized copy of Windows 10.
Of course we have yet to learn what it can do in that form factor, but based on the existing Windows Phones, it might not be too bad at all.
Consider this too. No upgreades to Android on old phones, Win10 can bring old hardware back to life.
Outside of the iPhone, the best smartphone is an Android device and won’t be supplied with Windows anytime soon. Great way to get Windows on good hardware without impossible contracts.
And people wonder why Apple is so uptight about jailbreaking.
Some people work at getting an OS to work on as many hardware platforms as possible. Others work at getting it to run on as few as possible. The test bed isn't necessarily the final, or even the only application where it might be utilized.
Perhaps that’s a neat demo of skills, but why would anyone outside of the programmers’ community want to replace Android with Windows on a phone? “
I would like to be able to run Windows on the android tablets so that I could run my programs that need to run on Windows on a tablet of my choice and not just the Microsoft tablet.