Re: Shame to see it end like this.
My view was that allowing the project to run most Android Apps on WinPho would have allowed the platform to still exist.
This would have allowed the few (MS) Apps to be used for real work like email, office, browsing, maps etc. but also supported running the myriad Android Apps people must have.
MS could have curated the 'best', well-written Apps and put them in their own store, used MS services instead of Google and gained traction there too.
Their customer base would have been all those people who wanted to stick with WinPho and Google-haters in general, along with iPhones-cost-too-much folks and Android-is-a-basket-case people too.
Why did they cancel it? Because it was felt it would stop people developing for WinPho - well, that has already happened so why not just finished the project so that the phones could remain extant and the UX paradigm for touch etc. at least still had a reason to exist.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
