Hello,
Will be better to speak here without 140 char limitation.
My idea is very simple: – if Microsoft brings Android apps on Windows devices, nobody (except some fans) will create native apps anymore, they will only create android apps. Consequence: bad user experience, bad performance, etc… clearly not a good idea. Moreover, if a user can choice between a real android phone and a phone emulating android apps… the choice will be very simple. Remember 2 things: OS/2 tried to run windows apps => died, BB10 tried to run android apps => died. BB10 is a good sample, the store is full of apps using android sdk, not BlackBerry sdk.
One more thing ©, Snapchat is not on Kindle store… so why it will be the case on windows store?
My idea is the contrary: bring Universal apps to android phone. So we will be able to ship one app running on : Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox, Android, Chromebook, Kindle and other android forks, PPI, IoT, etc… almost all OS except iOS.
Technically it’s clearly possible: – WinJS is open source and run without problem on Chrome/Webkit – Xamarin/Mono probes that it’s possible to have a native android apps with C#/fake XAML – VS2015 has already a Android emulator – next version of ASP.net will run natively and without SDK on MacOS X (why not do the same thing for apps?)
If Xamarin can do it, Microsoft can also, but not with a fake XAML thing, but with real XAML, real WinRT SDK, etc…
Android developers doesn’t like Eclipse, C# is very similar to Java, with some very cool features (Linq), new mobile developers will perhaps be motivated to use Microsoft Tools (Blend/Visual Studio) to create their apps and will make the windows store better.
