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submitted 1 year ago by Hypx@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

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They should have just paid developers to make the apps so that people would buy the phones.

Blackberry at their end (circa 2011 or so) started handing out $10,000 grants to developers to make apps for them. I thought about applying for one, but $10K is not much at all to develop a decently-featured app that does anything, and BB's development environment was such an unbelievable clusterfuck that really no amount of money could have made worthwhile to endure.

Also: 16-bit color lol.

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

5 bits each for red and blue and 6 for green. Who needs more than that?

The only reason I liked it at all was that I created a lot of owner-drawn controls (since the built-in Blackberry "fields" were shit) that used a lot of bitmap memory for animation, and reducing your memory footprint by a factor of two (compared to 32-bit graphics) wasn't worthless, especially for the older devices.

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