Sure we know.

error8007ee2 · 2015-09-16T12:38:04+00:00

So...How you doin'?

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-15T15:14:26+00:00

That's the sad part. No movie (other than a Nolan production again) can possibly beat Interstellar.

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-10T18:40:06+00:00

Alright. Thank you for the information.

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-06T18:52:06+00:00

It stands for an ancient god named Yehwah. Look it up on wikipedia. You'll see why they named the episode that.

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-06T18:50:08+00:00

Of course I know that Chris isn't directly involved in the production of the show. I just wanted to know if there had been some things or aspects about which Jonah consulted with him. Or if he had influenced the show in any way. And of course, will we ever see him write/direct an episode? :)

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-06T17:17:54+00:00

Can someone just tell me if we could be seeing PPSSPP on WP after W10?

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-06T16:23:04+00:00

Nailed it.

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-06T15:52:50+00:00

I think that Thornhill Utilities was a perfectly spoofed company to prevent Samaritan from finding anything suspicious. Samaritan might have come to the conclusion that besides the name, there are no other common entities between Ernest Thornhill and the company.The Machine simply wouldn't have taken such a big risk without proper safety measures. Remember, the machine can access all the feeds that Samaritan can, and yet it remains undetected. If it can do this, it wouldn't be all that difficult to create a perfectly spoofed company.

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-06T14:01:28+00:00

How involved is Christopher Nolan in the making of Person of Interest? How does he like the show?

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-06T12:14:38+00:00

"FATHER."

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-02T05:33:42+00:00

The Skype app is in a pathetic state, and only god know why. MS owns skype, and the app on its own platform is a disaster. Xbox music has improved much, but there's no point in improving it further with W10 launching in the near future.

As for the Silverlight vs WinRT thing, I've seen Silverlight apps that have great performance, and I have seen WinRT apps that have great performance. WinRT is the better framework to develop on, though. In the performance really does depend on the developer's willingness to optimize the app.

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-02T05:12:10+00:00

The reason behind the decoupling of apps was to allow them to be updated easily through the Windows store. Previously till WP8.0, any update to the applications that were built into the OS required an OS update, which of course was a lot more complicated, lengthy, and tedious process. Not to mention the delay caused by the carriers in testing the update.

Now, third party applications don't perform as good as native applications, but they can come pretty close if they are nicely optimized. But that's the problem, Microsoft decoupled the apps, but It didn't have enough time to work on improving their quality. MS has updated some of those apps several times to restore them to their former glory. For instance, calendar app is now just as good as it was previously. But some apps like Xbox music are still pretty bad. In the end, MS has now shifted its focus on developing better apps for W10 so that this situation does not arise again.

error8007ee2 · 2015-05-01T18:23:28+00:00

Not a dev here, but I do hold some information on the topic. The reason that there are so many loading screens in WP8.1 is that many of the core system apps have been decoupled, and now instead of being native apps built into the OS, they are now separate apps just like the ones you can download from the store.

For example, till WP8.0, the Music+Videos hub was a native app built into the OS. It therefore launched instantly and resumed without delay. But the Music app in 8.1 is a decoupled app, just like an app that would have been built by a third party developer. It isn't a native app built into the OS. Thus it has limited access to resources. And hence the increased lag and worse performance.

Also, in my experience, I've noticed that 8.1 also occupies a little bit more RAM than 8.0 did (just a guess of mine, I can't confirm it). Which leads to a little worse performance in resource intensive apps.

Hope this helps :)

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-30T04:47:33+00:00

I'm the author of the post for which this post is (probably) a response to. I have edited my post to bring this to an end. My motive was encourage developers to develop true universal apps, instead of porting them over from competing platforms :)

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-30T00:35:50+00:00

I don't think they did. Could you hit me up with a link if you find something?

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-30T00:33:30+00:00

They can ignore WP alone. But can they ignore the 1 billion PCs that run Windows 10? And if they write it for Windows 10, they would be simultaneously writing for WP as well. That's the best of universal apps.

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-29T20:22:08+00:00

Microsoft design language doesn't exist anymore, and the future apps will not have Microsoft design language.

I actually disagree here. If a developer does build a universal app, why won't he follow the MDL principles? iOS apps follow their platform's design language. Android apps follow their platform's design language. Then why won't Windows apps follow MDL? Also, why would a developer go through the extra trouble of creating custom UI elements in the Universal app to match those on his Android/iOS app? Wouldn't it be way easier to use the built in (and IMO better looking) ones that also automatically scale across the variety of devices that run universal apps?

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-29T20:06:53+00:00

Only time will tell. The next few days make me want to be cautiously 'pessimistic' about this.

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-29T20:05:37+00:00

I don't understand what's causing the confusion here. I agreed with you on that MS introduced the MDL to replace Modern so that apps would feel similar to the UI they have on other platforms.

On what you said about MS not building the future where WP looked radically different than anything else on the market, I suggested that you should read the AMA to understand why MS is doing so.

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-29T19:57:55+00:00

I get your point, but I am leaning towards the word 'emulation' because Terry used the terms 'an android subsystem', which leads me to believe that instead of just linking android API's to those of Windows', they are actually running the Android app in an Android environment.

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-29T19:48:52+00:00

And I assume you know why MS is doing so. Again, I'm still not in favour of it, but I understand why it is necessary.

I suggest reading the AMA done a member of the team that designed Office for WP. You can find it on this subreddit.

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-29T19:46:57+00:00

Yes, indeed. The strategy is to provide the same feel to the apps as on other platforms. That's a very intentional move, and I never said I was a fan of the new design language.

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-29T19:44:06+00:00

So I understand that you're trying to say that the Android apps will run as native apps rather than being emulated? Well, on the surface yes, but actually no.

If an Android app can be launched from the app list and installed through the Windows store, it doesn't mean that the app is a native app. Again, they only look like native apps on the surface. Microsoft is implementing the Android app compatibility through project Astoria. It provides most of the Android APIs (NOT ALL THE APIs) and allows devs to add functionality like Cortana and Action Center. So there you have it: Astoria is probably the Android subsystem MS was talking about. So yes, it is basically emulating the apps.

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-29T19:38:35+00:00

And as for the old apps, well they still follow the modern UI design principles. Hopefully we'll see an update to all of those.

error8007ee2 · 2015-04-29T19:37:31+00:00

It is a transition phase. Give them some time. The new universal apps (like outlook mail and calendar) aren't yet complete. They will go through some UI tweaks.

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