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To: dayglored
the Windows software comes as a "firmware update" -- that is, downloadable software that gets flashed into the operating system ROMs of the Android device, turning it from Android to Windows. Replacing its brain completely, one end to the other.

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?

5 posted on 04/10/2015 6:32:09 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Greysard

Perhaps they miss the occasional BSOD.


6 posted on 04/10/2015 6:34:44 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: Greysard

Continuity, we’ll need to see Wintenpointone.


7 posted on 04/10/2015 6:35:03 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Greysard
> ... why would anyone outside of the programmers' community want to replace Android with Windows on a phone?

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.

9 posted on 04/10/2015 6:37:01 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Greysard

Consider this too. No upgreades to Android on old phones, Win10 can bring old hardware back to life.


10 posted on 04/10/2015 6:37:56 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Greysard

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.


12 posted on 04/10/2015 6:39:14 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Greysard
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?

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.

17 posted on 04/10/2015 6:58:43 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Greysard

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.


26 posted on 04/10/2015 7:52:31 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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