Do a Google search on how to get your best body and you’ll be inundated with pages of training tips. For those who want to take that same, proactive approach to creating your best relationship, I have your “exercise regimen” below. 1. Do the things you did the first year you were dating. As the months and years roll on, we tend to slink into our proverbial sweatpants and get lazy in our relationship. We lose our patience, gentleness, thoughtfulness, understanding and the general effort we once made toward our mate. Think back to the first year of your relationship and write down all the things you used to do for your partner. Now start doing them again. 2. Ask for what you want. Over time, we assume that our partner knows us so well that we don’t need to ask for what we want. What happens when we make this assumption? Expectations are set and just as quickly, they get deflated. Those unmet expectations can leave us questioning the viability of our partnership...
Nearly five years following its debut, the beleaguered Windows Phone still suffers from a lack of apps. Recent, high-profile additions like WatchESPN have mitigated things, but the truth remains that the offerings on the Android and iOS app stores positively dwarf Microsoft’s own. The App Store and Play Store respectively boast an app catalog north of 1 million, while the Windows Phone Store just last November reached 187,000. Microsoft is acutely aware of this fact, and in response is reportedly experimenting with Android app emulation within the upcoming Windows Phone 10.
According to Neowin, the scope of the emulation is quite wide. As the software currently stands, most Android apps are compatible, and some builds even sport a working Google Play Store client. Of course, questions about the legality of the emulation’s implementation and its potential effects on native Windows Phone development have kept the project from being green-lit thus far.
Technical concerns may also be playing a part. BlackBerry’s own Android emulation solution in the BlackBerry 10 operating system was plagued with limitations and performance issues, and required manually downloading and installing apps. It’s since been improved, but Microsoft would no doubt rather avoid the same user backlash its competitor endured.
On the other hand, Microsoft may do better to stay the course. The company is on the cusp of releasing Windows 10, and with it, refreshed development tools that may finally make creating and publishing multi-platform apps simpler. Separately, Microsoft’s aiming to address the issue of market share by producing a program that can easily convert Android devices to Windows Phones.
If successful, those efforts could give Windows Phone the boost it needs to compete with incumbents. Still, Microsoft will have to act quickly. While the company’s still committed to “the long game,” the Wall Street Journal reports, it’s already spent billions of dollars to prop up the Windows Phone ecosystem, and Microsoft has nothing but falling market share to show for it.
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