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		p1necone 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google is building its own DeX: First look at Andr... I remember when MS was pushing UWP apps hard. So many things needlessly handicapped. I'm glad they seem to have kinda given up on that now.

mardef 1 day ago [–]

UWP was limited because it was the subset that could run on PC, Xbox, Phone, and HoloLens. Being able to make one responsive app and deploy it across that ecosystem was pretty awesome.

But when you kill the non-PC platforms, you're just left with a reduced capability version of windows apps

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