> And yes, Xamarin is awesome and Microsoft seriously needs to bring that great firm under their wing.
I'm a Microsoft fanboy, but a thousand times no. So they can do what with it exactly, pull another Skype? Xamarin caters to areas MS rarely do and bringing them in would push people out of the windows ecosystem, not inward. MS's catering to ios and android is to push people to windows phones and that isn't likely to change anytime soon.
I'm definitely glad Xamarin exists, especially after Novell kicked them to the curb. They could've kept their ball too but they decided to play fair and let Mono live on. I would never in a million years think MS could be that generous, and again I love MS for better or worse. Could they be? Sure but in spite of Bill Gates charitable contributions to humanity, those notions rarely took root in the company that enabled him to become that person in the first place.
I'm a Microsoft fanboy, but a thousand times no. So they can do what with it exactly, pull another Skype? Xamarin caters to areas MS rarely do and bringing them in would push people out of the windows ecosystem, not inward. MS's catering to ios and android is to push people to windows phones and that isn't likely to change anytime soon.
I'm definitely glad Xamarin exists, especially after Novell kicked them to the curb. They could've kept their ball too but they decided to play fair and let Mono live on. I would never in a million years think MS could be that generous, and again I love MS for better or worse. Could they be? Sure but in spite of Bill Gates charitable contributions to humanity, those notions rarely took root in the company that enabled him to become that person in the first place.