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Windows Phone market share (as of 2015 [1]) is less than 3%, while the number of people believing Elvis is alive is about 7%. So, it might be still some margin for WinPhone growth... 
On a serious note: recently I was looking for inexpensive unlocked Smart Phone of ANY brand around $100 for the field-testing of my Real-time NY Bus tracking app (IoT article on CP [2], actual web app [3]) and found one from relatively new Co. named BLU Studio-X: 5.0" HD Display (720x1280), 8MP/2MP cameras, Dual SIM, Quad-core CPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage (extendable to 64GB), Android 4.4 KitKat upgradable to 5.0. So, gimme the reason to NOT using this one and to continue writing apps for WinPhone? I mean, seriously marketable apps, not just hobby stuff…
PS. Btw, THIS GUY [4] apparently is Calling Elvis (using WinPhone, maybe? )
References
1). http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp[^]
2). 'enRoute': Real-time NY City Bus Tracking Web App[^]
3). Real-timeNY Bus Monitoring[^]
4). Calling Elvis live | Dire Straits[^]
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DrABELL wrote: .. to continue writing apps for WinPhone?
Well.
3% of a huge market is still quite a market.
Why target only one OS?
When the windows phone market finally disappears you're apps will have little competition.
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Quite interesting observation: zero competition in non-existing market... kinda "divided by, divided by zero, zero" (as an auld song goeth )
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Isn't 0/0 = infinity? So an infinite opportunity?
Although 0/0 is also = 0
Arghh.
more seriously, 3% of the mobile market != 0
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Strictly speaking (i.e. academically precise), 0/0 is INDETERMINATE. So, pertinent to the case, opportunity is indeterminate: could be hekuvalot of, or just plain zilch!
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At least use Xamarin, you can target iOS, Android AND WinPhone.
And it's possibly the best multi platform tool around!
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Btw, I've tried that approach couple years ago using Xamarin as a conversion tool: at that time Xamarin was kinda ridiculous POS (piece of software, diplomatically speaking ). Not sure if things changed for good. So, in case I decide to write for Android 5.0, I will simply switch to Goog dev tools: this seems to be much more reasonable approach than sticking to some dying proprietary technology from software giant-in-disarray and another proprietary sw from another Co. w/questionable future… IMHO.
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DrABELL wrote: people believing Elvis is alive is about 7%
If Elvis was still alive he would be dead by now
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Quote: If Elvis was still alive he would be dead by now
He is 80 years old.
I'm 7% && I own a winphone... (that makes: 0.21% !!!)
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Don't
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Don't forget the Alamo dog food not bombs away down south in the land of Dixie chicks can get their Kix and Dunn and Bradstreet called straight shooter Jennings Bryan Adams Family Affair use me and you don't
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Do we need a glossolalia forum  ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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So, what's your "Conceptual Continuity" ?
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Speaking of Frank Zappa, I find a certain Zappanacity in Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (my Friday commute home band).
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ƎHԀOɹ┴SOԀ∀ ƎH┴ SI ┴I∩ƆSIq ƎH┴ ℲO X∩ɹƆ ƎH┴ 
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What a great album that was! I still have a whole section of it memorized. From "So he bent down, ..." to "...Here goes: the circular motion!"
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Ja, uber!
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What an interesting post apocalypse now the end is near and far la la la la la la la la la la di dah gunner graham green with envy scooters
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There is a form of literature of which I have only recently become aware.
Will someone please help me identify it ?
i.e., Identify the name, what it's called, where I can find it, whatever. I have seen this, but I don't know its name, genre, category, classification, or anything else for that matter.
This form of literature is similar to poetry, but it's not really a poem.
It consists of sentences and phrases, like a poem; but it's not a poem. It is prose.
Frequently, video presentation is used to put the sentences and phrases in front of the viewer on the screen so as to make it more clear how they are to be observed, in the proper order.
The sentences and phrases are initially read like a regular poem or prose (they seldom rhyme) from top to bottom, one line after the other.
When you reach the last sentence/phrase on the bottom line, you then begin reading the lines in reverse order; i.e., you read the last line "N", then the "N-1" line above it, then the "N-2" line before that, and so on, until you reach the first line.
Video is clearly a better method of presenting this, as you can scroll the text in front of the viewer, one line at a time, and then reverse the presentation, going backwards. The reader remembers the prior sentences and phrases, and as they are presented in reverse order, the original message (quite often an observation of some very undesirable part of society, life, the future, whatever) is negated in the mind of the viewer.
The concept encourages a changed attitude by simply reversing the manner and the order in which the (exact same) sentences and phrases are presented and read.
While this may sound dorky here on CodeProject (none of us will ever get into a freshman literature textbook) it can be quite inspiring writing when presented in the proper context and a conducive environment.
My problem is that I don't know what it's called, or where to find any of it.
Does anybody know the phrase ?
I'm confident I've seen at least one of these on YouTube at least once.
Has anyone else seen this ? Can anyone tell me the name of this literary form ? Got a link to any YouTube clips ?
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Yes, it's known as 'pretentious crap'. 
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Like a mirrored poem?
Quote: Temptation
And porn replaced love
Day after day
We are bombarded
Sex and beauty
Objects over heart
Thoughts lustful, confused reality
Isolation supplanted communication
Clouds out move clarity
Facade my life
~Redemption~
Life my facade
Clarity move out clouds
Communication supplanted isolation
Reality confused lustful thoughts
Heart over objects
Beauty and sex
Bombarded are we
Day after day
Love replaced porn and
Temptation
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Close, very close, but not the real thing.
In this literary form, the exact same sentences are presented in reverse order.
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How about a 'palindromic poem' or 'shadow poetry'?
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