Some thoughts that have been sitting in draft for a while.
Cross platform frameworks
Marmalade has been my tool of choice for Playbook development, and I could use it for creating cross platform apps. This article on
cross platform frameworks points to a project which shows how much common code vs platform specific code you have when using various frameworks. It would be interesting to see what figure Marmalade would get.
App porting
Blackberry and Microsoft are struggling to increase the popularity of their mobile platforms. Blackberry has approached it by throwing
free Playbooks at the problem. If you want to port an app to Windows Phone from iOS or Android then you may find your way to
this page (last updated Aug 2, 2013 as I write this, so not out of date), but look at the links - no Windows Phone 8 guide. Unless I've missed something, Microsoft aren't putting much effort helping people port apps.
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