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They really need to go both ways with their cross platform offerings.

I can use their technology to develop apps for other platforms, but I cannot use their technology to run those apps. That requires having the other platform.

It would be nice if I could not only develop cross platform apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, but I could also run them on their Windows Phone platform. I would buy a windows phone if it could do that.

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Why would they want to help you provide content for Android?

Because I would do it using their tools, so it would also be content for Windows Phone.

Given the current state, why would I bother making content for windows phone? Why use C# if it's a second class citizen on the majority platforms? Why even learn it if the only thing it's good for anymore is Web API?

Windows could be the universal platform but instead they are still functioning like it's something they could monopolize. Those days are over.

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