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		guyzero on March 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Update from the CEO "Before Android, you could write a Windows Mobile app and have it run pretty much on every Windows Mobile device" - yeah, all one million of them.

guyzero on March 13, 2013 [–]

Also, to be more serious, Pocket PC once ran on top of two processor families, so if you think fragmentation with a VM is bad, it's a lot worse when you have to build two binaries and try to explain to users which one they need to install.

yuhong on March 14, 2013 | [–]

Three. Luckily only one (ARM) survived by the 2002 release.

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