Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

  • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    For real. AOSP is open source, and Google is taking more things private. MS could start driving AOSP since FOSS projects go where the group contributing the most wants it to go.

    • thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That would force them to adopt different languages internally though. I don’t know what they are doing these days, but something tells me it’s not kotlin and jetpack.

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        1 year ago

        They’re already talking up .NET MAUI. Their cross-platform C# application UI.

        I’m also not sure MS cares that much if that gets them in the game.

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        1 year ago

        That’s really not a big barrier. Just add a couple folks with experience in the desired tech and any good dev team will continue to be a good dev team, even if everything changed under them.

    • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      I wish this can be true but that’s bow how trillion dollar companies work. There’s lot of redtape involved. Think of it as one drug dealer is not allowed to deal drugs on other dealers turf. But something tell me if we start praising elon , probably he’ll take the bait and might drive aosp away from google but I also fear he might burn the whole thing down to the ground lol