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Dunno - you seen any "fix my car security" questions in QA yet? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Workin' on it right now!
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The fact that Fiat is closing the wide open door is astonishing. Do engineers not THINK any more?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Have you been to QA recently?
Many people seem to think you can develop code just by trawling the internet for something that might do a similar job, bolt it into your program and off you go. Never mind that the code you found is C++ and you are working in PHP...QA will fix it...
I'd suspect car designers come from that school. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I tried to help out in there and rapidly went insane.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Windows Phone market share (as of 2015 [1]) is less than 3%, while the number of people believing Elvis is alive is about 7%. So, it might be still some margin for WinPhone growth... 
On a serious note: recently I was looking for inexpensive unlocked Smart Phone of ANY brand around $100 for the field-testing of my Real-time NY Bus tracking app (IoT article on CP [2], actual web app [3]) and found one from relatively new Co. named BLU Studio-X: 5.0" HD Display (720x1280), 8MP/2MP cameras, Dual SIM, Quad-core CPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage (extendable to 64GB), Android 4.4 KitKat upgradable to 5.0. So, gimme the reason to NOT using this one and to continue writing apps for WinPhone? I mean, seriously marketable apps, not just hobby stuff…
PS. Btw, THIS GUY [4] apparently is Calling Elvis (using WinPhone, maybe? )
References
1). http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp[^]
2). 'enRoute': Real-time NY City Bus Tracking Web App[^]
3). Real-timeNY Bus Monitoring[^]
4). Calling Elvis live | Dire Straits[^]
<lol>Life is 2short 2remove USB safely
modified 25-Jul-15 21:55pm.
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DrABELL wrote: .. to continue writing apps for WinPhone?
Well.
3% of a huge market is still quite a market.
Why target only one OS?
When the windows phone market finally disappears you're apps will have little competition.
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Quite interesting observation: zero competition in non-existing market... kinda "divided by, divided by zero, zero" (as an auld song goeth )
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Isn't 0/0 = infinity? So an infinite opportunity?
Although 0/0 is also = 0
Arghh.
more seriously, 3% of the mobile market != 0
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Strictly speaking (i.e. academically precise), 0/0 is INDETERMINATE. So, pertinent to the case, opportunity is indeterminate: could be hekuvalot of, or just plain zilch!
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At least use Xamarin, you can target iOS, Android AND WinPhone.
And it's possibly the best multi platform tool around!
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Btw, I've tried that approach couple years ago using Xamarin as a conversion tool: at that time Xamarin was kinda ridiculous POS (piece of software, diplomatically speaking ). Not sure if things changed for good. So, in case I decide to write for Android 5.0, I will simply switch to Goog dev tools: this seems to be much more reasonable approach than sticking to some dying proprietary technology from software giant-in-disarray and another proprietary sw from another Co. w/questionable future… IMHO.
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DrABELL wrote: people believing Elvis is alive is about 7%
If Elvis was still alive he would be dead by now
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Quote: If Elvis was still alive he would be dead by now
He is 80 years old.
I'm 7% && I own a winphone... (that makes: 0.21% !!!)
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<lol>Life is 2short 2remove USB safely
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Don't
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Don't forget the Alamo dog food not bombs away down south in the land of Dixie chicks can get their Kix and Dunn and Bradstreet called straight shooter Jennings Bryan Adams Family Affair use me and you don't
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Do we need a glossolalia forum  ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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So, what's your "Conceptual Continuity" ?
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Speaking of Frank Zappa, I find a certain Zappanacity in Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (my Friday commute home band).
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ƎHԀOɹ┴SOԀ∀ ƎH┴ SI ┴I∩ƆSIq ƎH┴ ℲO X∩ɹƆ ƎH┴ 
<lol>Life is 2short 2remove USB safely
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What a great album that was! I still have a whole section of it memorized. From "So he bent down, ..." to "...Here goes: the circular motion!"
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Ja, uber!
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What an interesting post apocalypse now the end is near and far la la la la la la la la la la di dah gunner graham green with envy scooters
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