Microsoft Windows Astoria bridge for Android is dead

To be honest I would say that from their perspective this makes absolute sense:

1) Pretty much every app you need is on iOS already outside of some fringe things that don't support iOS at all or can't make it onto the app store.
2) In general, iOS versions of applications tend to be of higher quality than their Android counterpart (there's always exceptions). This in particular is the case when iOS is the primary development platform.
3) The marketplace for paid apps is greater amongst iOS users than Android users, meaning there has been a demonstration of a willingness to pay for the applications on that platform.
4) There is an incredibly large iOS platform development community out there.

Seems like a no brainer when they can hit 95% of what they're wanting to hit with just one platform. Astoria would overlap huge portions of what their iOS bridge already does with little additional benefit.
 
They better get islandwood sorted, otherwise windows phone is dead. I can see why MS killed off astoria, there is a distinct lack of google on windows phone..clearly they are not getting along. Hopefully MS and Apple gets along better...the app situation on WM10 is a disaster...
 
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