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You'd be surprised. It was the only option for those writing native apps to have a platform that could legally run all of your tooling if you shipped Mac/Windows/Linux.


> It was the only option for those writing native apps to have a platform that could legally run all of your tooling if you shipped Mac/Windows/Linux.

Sure, but the number of people writing cross platform apps is a small fraction of the number of web developers out there.


But given the amount of time they talked about how large a part native apps play into the transitions, an extremely strategically important segment for them.

Additionally, there's the Android/iOS crowd in the same boat, where emulation of non x86 in Android dev is pretty limited (but I can see that being rectified with the newer virtualization extensions).




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