Windows users are used to being ignored, but will we ever get to join the latest craze?
Updated below with a brief statement from the developer, Niantic.
And so it begins again. All the kids are talking about this awesome new app and those of us with a Windows Phone in our hands are looking at it despondently. Well, some of us are, anyway. We're talking, of course, about Pokemon Go, the new mobile game that's about as you'll ever get to actually being in the Pokemon universe.
For kids, it's a blast. For the older kids who used to be kids 20 years ago when this stuff first hit the big time, it's a blast. Or rather it's a blast if you have an iPhone or one of the ridiculous amount of Android phones. And that's without even getting into the regional availability right now.
Of course, so far there's no real story. Sure, there's an online petition that a ton of people have signed, but does anyone truly think that such a thing would ever make a difference? There have been no hints from the developer, Niantic, that they're even paying passing glance to other platforms. The game that came before, Ingress, never made it to Windows Phone, either. Right now they're struggling to keep the servers going on what they do have, for one.
So, that's the end then, right? Well, not quite. We're not exactly confident that Pokemon Go will ever show up on Windows 10, but so many folks are clearly asking and interested in it, that we've at least asked the question. We've fired off a very polite note to the guys and gals at Niantic asking that all important question: Will we ever see Pokemon Go on Windows 10?
Hopefully we'll get a response one way or the other so we can answer it once and for all. Stay tuned.
Update: Well, we had a response from Niantic. It doesn't give us good news, but it also doesn't say 100% exactly that it'll never, ever happen.
We have no comment or info to share on Windows at this time. Sorry I can't be of more help.
So, I guess we'll have to wait and see.
In the meantime, if you want to see what all the fuss is about, our good buddies at iMore have literally everything you could ever want or need to know.
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Will we ever get Pokémon Go on Windows 10?
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No, Pokemon Go will never be on windows phone.
Doesnt sound very promising althought it does leave it as an open issue. But my opinion as i see it If they didnt released it at once i dont believe they will in the near future. maybe a lot later. This should concern microsoft to make some serious steps forward for app delevopers.
Please sign up for this petition to develop Pokémon GO for windows: https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-the-pokemon-company-the-pokemon-compan...
You know what? This is the first time I actually feel a bit frustrated with not having an app on Windows Phone, the other times were apps that I actually didn't give a damn about.
I'm actually thinking about buying a lower end Android phone to be my secondary phone just so I can play Pokemon Go and maybe try other apps in the future. I'm not abandoning Windows Phone though.
I blame Microsoft for not being more aggressive with WP and for leaving that stupid gap without any new phones between 2013 and 2015.
Gosh, if Microsoft made a deal with Niantic to release PokeGo on Windows 10, I bet we would see an increase on sales.
not at 1% mobile user base we wont
I am still waiting for Ingress on MS Storre and people are want for Pokemon Go!! :(
DOES anybody saw the game "Monster Buster: World Invasion" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????
Literaly it is the same as POKEMON - GO, but it was uploaded in 2014!!!
Easy answer without even reading the article. NO
At this point I am already looking for a new android device. As of now the ONLY thing that could convert me back to windows phone is if the "Surface Phone" runs 32bit x86 applications. If not i will not be returning. Windows phone is dead and seems to be staying that way.
This app will get people killed.
Do like most people do.. Buy an android phone to accompany your windows phone.
So I tried using my Lumia 950 as a mobile hotspot, but the only kind of internet that worked is regular browsing... What's up with that? I couldn't use Pokemon Go on my Android.
Let's be real in here. As much as I say to myself that Windows phone world will raise it won't happen this century with this kind of approach from MS side.
I own 3 MS phones but the next one this week will be an Android one. There are some apps important to me which will never come to WP. It's kodi and dji go for Phantom drones.
Regards!
Reviews from play store
Has anybody gone and read the game reviews?...
The games is full of bugs and server issues... so what's the point of even talk about it...
From my Uber phone... :) Yes I'm forced by nature's forces to use this crappy Android os/phone.. I miss my 1520/950 so much..
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We will surely get an android device if this doesn't happen
Well, "no comment" isn't exactly a no at this point in time... I guess we can take it to mean they're too busy fixing the server issues, the privacy problems, and trying to get the rollout back on schedule to worry about a Windows port now. Hopefully the Change.org petition will have 50k+ signatures when they stop to take a look.
We lost angry bird, we might as well jump on to the next craze, if that ever happens. I would be down for it. I'm seeing my nephew having fun with it on his iPad.
Who cares if Pokemon Go arrives on Windows 10 or not. Just buy a Nintendo DS and get the full, proper game if you want it that bad.
I just played this game and don't see the big deal. I thought the game was pretty boring. I must be missing something. Ohh well... No loss for me.
Niantic is notorious for not responding properly to questions related to Pokemon Go. "We have no comment or info to share" is already far more than I expected.
Thanks for asking
As much as I would love to have Nintendo games on my Lumia, I have to ask: Why are we even entertaining this idea, honestly?
Since creating an app just for W10M would not bring the necessary ROI, I don't think it can happen in current state of affairs of W10.
We'll see what the NX brings to the table next year. If it flops, MSFT should strongly consider Nintendo acquisition, because if they don't, someone else surely will. Nintendo has a treasure trove of IP like none other. The fact that this forum is talking about a game, which is not even on the table for our platform speaks volumes about how popular Mario, Zelda, Pkemon, et al really are. Don't tell me that you haven't secretly dreamed about exclusive Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Bayonetta release on yoru XBOX? I know I have...
If MSFT did what they allowed with Mojang and kept a long leash, where both companies could benefit from one providing hardware and the other software, have some titles x-platform and keep the best as XBOX exclusives. More of a strategic partnership than an outright hostile takeover, if you will. I could totally see this happening.
Who the f*** cares? 20 something year old virgins.! No Pokémon, no Snapchat shut up.
I really hope this game come to windows10m
LOL, and they bump this clickbait with a non-answer. I guess that's at least a more-valid posting than the initial trolling for haters in the comments.
Farewell WM. Maybe we'll meet again.
Good to see Nintendo make money on something...
Here we go again.
It's really sad how people let trends control their lives.
So their response is just like: "Nah it will never come, but we don't want our email full of messages from people insulting us or asking us why."
I could care less. If I really wanted to play that game. I'll open up the android emulator on my pc and start playing. I could setup false location and movement. All from the comfort of my living room
Come on People, this IS Windows Phone we are talking about (Windows 10 mobile or what ever MS wants to call it), this is nothing new. Did ANYONE EXPECT anything different ?
When do we get new apps on the day other platforms do ?
Who will be the first kid or mentally challenged adult to die from playing this game? The media backlash is coming. The fact that this game requires physical activity means Americans will probably lose interest fast.
Not to worry. A lot of users are going to leave the sinking ship behind and moving to android
Why not campaign for apps of long term value to Windows, instead of focusing so heavily on a fad game that the public will have no interest in a year from now.
Voice your opinion on twitter https://twitter.com/Barker4789/status/752564630774423552
Face it people: WP is irrelevant in the consumer space.
get snap chat first, the ask for Pokemon go.
Ok, so I am going to throw it out there right now: Will the new Surface Phone have enough resources to run BlueStacks or some other Android emulator? If so, problem(s) solved!
1) What "Surface Phone"?
2) Since when can you run Bluestacks on Windows 10 Mobile? I don't see Bluestacks in the Windows Store.
I think at least this crazy reveals 3 facts: 1) there is APP-GAP. I know many fans here and even editors blindly deny that with all kinds of excuses, but fact is fact, hiding the fact can't fix it in any way. The only way to fix it is first admit its existent, before it's too late (well, maybe already too late, but there's still hope). 2) there is app that desktop and UWP can't help. This game is only meaningful on the phone, so the idea that we have a large destkop user base and the app will be automatically on the phone desn't work. There are many other examples but no one is as clear as this one so far (well someone still claim that they could play it on Surface with a USB GPS, what a nerd). 3) cloud computing or bot can't cover it. That's too far away from user.
Watching the video, this would be a complete waste given no city around here.... the countryside looks as limiting as having a Windows mobile ;)
Watch out for those cars and busses!! This game should be banned on safety grounds.
No comment, no shmomment. There is nothing planned for us and it makes sense 100%.
Always the same problème with windows platform .
No apps and if there will be one see it will be incomplete.
Give this info (http://adamreeve.tumblr.com/post/147120922009/pokemon-go-is-a-huge-secur...), I don't see why ANYONE would want to play this game.
Wow it's almost admirable how useless thier response is... Still better than a straight no
ios and adriod rules again.. Very big gap on w10m.. Another big game is comming in september the lunch of "ragnarok mobile"
36k sign on petition but no confirmed answer from pokemon dev...
I have to macbook for a reason,gaming,that same case now happening on windows phone os.
Yes i will switch to other platform,after 1year windows 10 mobile is till not perfect,and low amount of apps and games available in store,that a huge problem.Microsoft must release great or similar ,xbox games on their store,otherwise goodbye windows 10 mobile.
First... I don't care about the game, second... No matter what it's never worth switching and third... People are going to be exploiting other people in bad ways as they are already after just a few days after it's release.
https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-the-pokemon-company-the-pokemon-compan...émon-go-for-windows-10-and-windows-mobile-10
Isn't this what every other developer says about Windows?
personally, i don't care about that at all.
Nobody is talking about meerkat since its launch January last year and when will we have meerkat app on the windows platform?
Fortunately our unfortunately really depends on your point if view but I could not care less about it if I tried and I haven't tried. What I have read about it sounds like something fun but easy to open too abuse.
probably when nintendo is on pokemon go 3 we will get the original game.
It will be awesome when Windows 10 on Hololens support this game. Playing GO with hololens gonna creating rich experience of Pokemon AR. Android and iOS mostly are used on mobile device. Imagine, playing pokemon GO on hololens, you don't need to hold a phone to play it. I think GO should be released on Hololens first, iOS and Android will be jealous hahaha
HoloLens doesn't have GPS or LTE.
Please, no. Pokemon should disappear like the beatniks who invented rap. Please do not soil Windows Phone with this stuff.
Please, no. Pokemon should disappear like the beatniks who invented rap. Please do not soil Windows Phone with this stuff.
I can only assume that "Windows users are used to being ignored" is some sort of code for "Windows users have mocked Mac and Linux users for decades for not being popular enough for game developers to care about them and now can't handle being in the flip side of that coin."
Pokemon no
http://thenextweb.com/us/2016/07/11/careful-armed-robbers-lured-victims-...
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I really couldn´t care less.
Instead of commenting here, we need to all hit up their social media accounts.
Pokemon game adds $7.5 billion to Nintendo's value in two days http://a.msn.com/r/2/BBub4AY?m=en-us&ocid=Money
You'd have thought they could afford to underwrite a Windows UWP app now.
Why waste money like that though?
Of course we never gonna get it on windows10m just like clash of clans and clash royal...
I dream of this game on Windows 10 with Xbox Live support. Pokémon achievements would make me smile.
Keep wishing guys, keep wishing. Just get yourselves a spare Android phone when you can't have apps like this. Damn sure the guys that write this articles own Android phones too.
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It is heresy to "want" any new app given the fact WP has "all the apps you'll ever need". Isn't that right fans?
maybe when pokemon was relevant when I was 12 lol
Guess what, it's relevant again.
Windows phones were relevant.... never.
I loved the Pokémon Series and hope this game comes :/
Well to me it seems this fits snugly into Microsofts strategy. Since the average consumer is no longer an interest/market share they actively pursue, we don't have a problem, do we? I reckon few business or enthousiast users will complain about missing out on Pokémon, so no fuss here... nothing new to me.
Google owns the developer...... Therefore chances are 0. Google are pr**ks and always undermines Microsoft
Google DOES NOT own Niantic, regardless of how many time this gets posted here, it's not true.
Here is their Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic,_Inc.
Well they more or less own them ... it was spun out of Google as late as October 2015, so less then a year ago.... but at the same time Niantic announced Google, Nintendo, and The Pokémon Company would invest $30 million ($20 million upfront with an additional $10 million conditioned upon the company achieving certain milestones)
It started as an internal startup at Google after all, and therefore uses Google Maps for instance ...and are heavly invested in that ecosystem.. ..and with Google putting in a lot of money into the company, would they really say no to them ?
Though I would not play it, I hope it comes to Windows 10. I rarely (maybe once a week or less) have the time to play games anymore and have whittled the selections of games on my phone down to just a few: Classic Angry Birds, Spartan Assault, Spartan Strike, Mahjong, Solitaire and Minesweeper.
Funny how fad games like this get big. I remember when that one game where you shoot the paper in the waste basket was the hot new time wasting game lol
Anyways. Hopefully W10 gets recognized by these people and they port a tablet and phone version.
I have the solution for all of you whiners. Just leave. No one's forcing you to stay with WM.
That's exactly Microsoft's attitude by the way.
While I don't care about Pokemon Go, I did care about the growing app gap. That's what made me switch to Android and not look back. If Windows Mobile caught up I would switch back in a heartbeat, though.
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Where this game would truly belong is on HoloLens. Screw walking around starring through your phone. Having them just appear in real life via the HoloLens is where the real money will be ;)... if they build it as a UWP app, they can easily do this.
Sure, because you are really going to go outside and walk around with a Hololens strapped to your head.
This isn't a game that is played sitting in a room, it's an exploration game that gets people to go outside(and stare at their phones lol)
Better trademark that idea you never know ;)
I don't know what Pokémon is
It's actually called Chinpokomon :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeoB1voCit4
before you ask this question you should ask : will you ever get MICROSOFT garage apps on windows mobile ? No? then you wont get pokemon go until Micrososft see's windows mobile as valuable as ios, android, azure, xbox, office, surface, windows on desktop, laptop .
Windows head Terry Myerson: "If you wanted to reach a lot of phone customers, Windows Phone isn't the way to do it"
Typical we don't care that much response, they don't want to put any hard work into windows mobile they want to throw it in the market and let it flow by its own if it sink they have no problem with it cause they can generate money from other departmants, this mentality will never make windows mobile successful in a short run. i bet its going to take them another 5 years in order to really compete with android and ios.
Once again, Pokemon GO is built in Unity. This makes it downright easy to port to WIndows 10 Mobile, so those who say that developement isn't worth their time, they already developed it.
So much for .Net Foundation/MS not having any bite of the cake in Pokemon GO.
Considering Microsoft with Xbox, Nintendo with their wii u/DS/NX, being two of three major competitors (despite nintendo's indirect approach)... This ain't gonna happen. As fun as the game is, hell would freeze over before a Nintendo licensed game can be bought on a platform the Xbox is also supporting.
Pokemon go is so terrible concept. Why do we waste time by catching virtual pokemon in real world. Lol we have real life to live happily dont get much addicted to this. For me it sounds stupid. It will be great if we spend time with our loved ones in real. Btw smartphones are made to connect people through internet not to get addicted to virtual world.
Sounds like the game isn't for you. Old flip phones are more for strict communication. Where you could only text or call. Smartphones are for having the accessibility of a computer in your pocket and computers are known for having games played on them.
Still it would be great if they support windows mobile cuz people are switching platform because of this game.
Mad? Let people enjoy their entertainment. Same could be said about many hobbies. Difference here, is that people actually get off the couch, and go outside. Forward progress is progress nonetheless... Any optimistic person would see the good in this.
Never heard of it!
Judging by your avatar pic, I'm not surprised.
First bring clash of clans in windows phone,then talk about Pokemon go..
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We all just need to accept WM is for enterprise now, the consumer market is dead. Apps will be completely enterprise focused moving forward
Yes maybe you are right cuz we are still missing big titles such as clash of clans mortal combat etc
Maybe if Microsoft was developing the Astoria bridge for Android we could get this game and many other apps but Mr mobile first cloud first knows better, right?
This is why you install blue stacks and run android apps on Windows 8 or 10.
Except that this app won't work by doing that.
No thanks, I don't like cancer
That only works on the PC not the phones
Thanks, I don't want to risk my life with a stupid game.
Well you're lucky that you don't even have a choice in that if you're a windows phone user. Choices such anyway, it's better to have a narrow road to follow because at least you'll always know where to go.
This is one of many new games that will continue to ever consider W10M. Microsoft has pulled it's yacht away from the Phone harbor... and no developers even miss it. It is not even a thought to create something for W10M, with less than 1% (American) market share and Microsoft not trying, why would they? I don't blame the developers, who don't want to waste there time. We will not see a reemergence from Microsoft until we get the "Highly" anticipated "Surface Phone". Until that point WINDOWS Phone/Mobile are on ICU style life support and if Microsoft does not get the developers on board this will be the last ride for the Phone/Mobile. So, I sure how that they get something going, as I love the feel of the OS.
Man... so many sour grapes around here.
Filed under "Best not to hold my breath."
Who cares?
Are u serious?!
About Pokémon GO?
Yes.
This might be a kids game but it's beyond embarrassing this is not on Windows mobile.
It's this sort of app that has led to the death of windows mobile for the non enterprise market.
The Galaxy Note 7 It's looking pretty good about now.
Not going to happen unfortunately. Niantic got extra funding from Google a few months back which would most likely have been on the proviso that none of their apps are to be ported to Windows Phone.
Hey. At least this theory fits in with Google's anti-Windows Phone strategy.
EDIT: For what it's worth, Pokemon Go was the straw that broke the camel's back for me and made me switch to Android. I'd been contemplating that switch for a while and pulled the pin when the Nexus 5X hit the Google Store in Australia so that I could be ready for Pokemon Go.
My old Lumia 1020 is now with a relative and even my dad is looking to switch to Android (he's in his late 50s and is still into Pokemon).
I don't blame you for switching. I recently bought a Lumia 950, but now I'm asking myself if that was a mistake. I might switch if this game will never come. Waiting for the devs to answer.
Sure, because Google cares enough about Windows phone that they'd make a provision with developers not to support it.
Also, buying an Android phone shouldn't mean that you have to get rid of your Lumia. You'll miss it later if you want to use it again.
It's exactly like that. They are not the best at writing good code anyway lol so "alternative" paths took them where they are now
Considering that the 1020 won't get W10M (nor will the 920 that my dad has now), it seemed like a good time to pass it on.
Also, Google has cared enough to stifle Windows Phone at every turn (Youtubegate, buying companies who have apps for WP and then subsequently no longer supporting them/outright killing them, not porting their other services to WP, etc). The theory I outlined in my OP would fit in with all that (particularly as the extra funding was confirmed after Pokemon Go was announced).
Oh you mean how they killed Youtube apps that robbed them of their primary source of revenue? Gee I can't imagine why they would do that.
MS tried to work with Google on a native Youtube app for Windows Phone but Google kept moving the goalposts.
I don't see Metrotube, Mytube or other third party Youtube apps getting killed by Google.
Pokémon GO should have been an XBox mobile game out of the gate. They can't even leverage their XBox arm for mobile. Sad.
Because Pokemon is a Nintendo property. Good luck getting Nintendo to have anything to do with Xbox.
Its hilarious that users here think Google cares enough about Windows phone that they would include a provision against developing for it. You guys are so delusional.
Windows phone is ignored because its irrelevant and miniscule, not because there's some conspiracy against it.
When you consider Google's past anti-Windows Phone efforts, it's not really out of the realms of possibility.
Thanks guys. I hope Niantic responds to you. I also hope they announce plans for Windows 10. Wish they'd just port the iOS app and be done with it!
I'm just waiting for pokemon on hololens
Its okay.. I dont need that game :-)
Too bad a bunch of other people do.
It's nice that we take the time to sign petitions, we should take the time to bombard Satya Nadella's twitter page to let him know how you feel about apps as well as this one in particular. I posted a tweet on his page about this and think of we all do this, he won't continue ignore us. He's the head of Microsoft and needs to be held accountable. Go tweet on his and Terry Myerson's Pages including their Facebook if they have one.
Oh, don't bother here. Each time I complain how big of a lame duck Satya is, I get accused of being a racist. Good luck. He is bullet proof behind the race card.
It's nice that we take the time to sign petitions, we should take the time to bombard Satya Nadella's twitter page to let him know how you feel about apps as well as this one in particular. I posted a tweet on his page about this and think of we all do this, he won't continue ignore us. He's the head of Microsoft and needs to be held accountable. Go tweet on his and Terry Myerson's Pages including their Facebook if they have one.
You should start a petition to get people to actually buy the phones! The only thing Nadella can do is kill W10M and start with something new. It isn't going anywhere, just like the past few attempts. People just don't want the platform. They need something new that might actually have a chance.
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Some people say they can't port ot to our platform cause it works with google maps. If this is true it sucks. Maybe Microsoft should start another project to convert maps from google to Microsoft maps.
Sounds like laziness that's all...
No.
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Nothing wrong with liking your Windows Phone but let's not pretend you don't feel left out when every popular app/game doesn't make it to your platform. I was in denial at one point too and just let it go and bought a GS7. I still love W10 on desktop abd tablets but got tired of being the only one in my circle who can't deposit a check with his phone.
Actually, Idon't. The flavor of the month was not long ago Instagram. Well, regularly updated now and I have an acct but I rarely post. Then candy crush. Then snapchat. Then...well, there will always be these apps. I remember when it was Angry Birds, but every flavor of that is available WP and I don't see a change.
I don't think you know what flavour of the month is. Instagram and Snapchat are not fads. They are legit social apps like Facebook and Twitter.
Your failure to recognize this is part of WMitis - refusal to acknowledge the importance of these apps because, "I don't need it or use it".
Well, if your car doesn't have a Bluetooth radio then of course you don't stream music via Bluetooth...
Definitely fads
Baloney. It is the crying and wailing over the individual apps each time. And I know damned well what a fad is. I stream Bluetooth all time so what is your point? As for my willingness to accept reality, not sure about those that would Claim to run to another platform for this particular app. Tell me. What will be the app next year that will be the straw that broke these camel's back? You seem to have your finger in the pulse.
The camels back broke a long time ago for Windows Mobile.
Welcome to reality.
LMAO
Left out of what? Pedofile Go hunt app that is the latest hype? ... I think I'll manage without thank you
Missing word:
the new mobile game that's about as ????? you'll ever get to actually being in the Pokemon universe
Just read an article about armed robbery and other mishaps regarding this app. I can think of nothing better than to broadcast my itinerary and planned location to anyone there to target. One thing is certain. None of the victims of these misadventures were Windows Phone users.
You so jelly your avatar turned green!
It's a funny old thing technology. What's successful today is not tomorrow. There's lots of examples. I know it's different in many ways, but also similar. I'm referring to games consoles. The original Xbox had nearly half the game support by developers as opposed to it's rival the PS2. Yet when the 360 came around it argueably had the best support across the board from developers alike. A huge turnaround made real by the choices and change in tech Microsoft came up with in the console space. Largely Xbox Live. Noone knows what's around the corner in the next step from the current phone/app scenario. If there's a Surface Phone being developed could it be a high end phone that incorporates Legacy software? Personally I believe apps are a stop gap in the software world until a device comes along that's capable of full software.
I think MS are holding out for Surface Phone for this reason. The Surface family has increased it's market share of sales in the first quarter of 2016 to 29%. The best increase of any tablet lined product and the best selling hybrid on the market. In the same quarter Ipad sales dropped a further 19%.
Mobile only OS are saturated in the market and will decline when Legacy software will run on Mobile tech.I honestly think MS are the best positioned for this transition.
iPad sales have dropped, but they still sell millions and millions more than the Surface. You're trying to use numbers to support your statement, but there's much that you're leaving out.
True. 10M ipads vs. 1M surfaces on Q1.
But the Surface is selling in a greater percentage then the iPad... Since Apple people like percentage numbers so much...
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The world is playing this game, a massive phenomena.
Do I have it on WM10, no. How embarrassing
World?.. Isn't that too much of an exaggeration?
Is not. The point is, we are all missing out the hype and fun. By the time we get it, the hype has already dies down.
Honestly, the developers of the apps we don't get should be ashamed. As long as a platform has several million users or more, an app should be made. Their behavior is no different than affirmative Action or racism accept it's based on the platform you use.
Wow, you Donald Trump'd that quick! Never go full Trump! There is no way a rational person could make this comparison.
Did you seriously just compare WP not getting an app to affirmative action or racism? Unbelievable.
MS has offloaded unsold stock to US police departments to make them less racists.
No, its called business. You don't waste money making an app on a dead platform.
Can't download it in Canada even on this crappie Samsung Galaxy s5... So yeah... The whole world...
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You don't come to WP for games. When you are a WP user you sit in your leather chair smug and enjoy glass of whiskey. :)
Don't mention whiskey. These guys are all stuck in their 11 year old mind set.
Yep, I currently playing it using Windows 10 Mobile hotspot connection by connecting my iPod touch to it. People don't know, I don't have an iPhone and I can still use my Lumia 950 XL. I would like to use on device but this is way to work to have the apps on iPod and the system on the Windows mobile.
Indeed. And you need to spend on 2 devices in order to enjoy the vast amount of apps on other platforms. Just dump your windows mobile already and get a cheap Xiaomi Note 3 for a bang of money!
There is no need to drop his WP just because he buys a device from another platform. There's noting wrong with owning both.
I don't think he wrote that he likes ****
What gen iPod do you have? I'm curious about the gps capabilities needed for the game - I tried tethering a cheap Android to my 950XL and kept getting "gps not found" errors. Now I'm wondering if the device with the app installed needs true GPS support (instead of the kind there you triangulate using cell towers) or if the Pokémon Go app just didn't like that phone model...
You need ios8 on the iPod I can only go to 6.1.6 on mine. Thinking about getting a cheap iPod with ios8 on it and get all the other apps I can't get
I have a 5th gen iPod touch with ios 9; there's no GPS on my iPod. Having a certain os isn't going to add a GPS to it.
My Aussie flatmate is obsessed with this game, and asked me if I tried it. I said it's not available on Windows mobile, and he was like "Mate, why are you still holding on to that brick? Get yourself a nice iPhone or Android phone"
To be honest, I was never into Pokemon so it does not matter to me. But I'm pretty sure that the world coming to an end is a more realistic possibility than this game coming to Windows!
Rightly said
Niantic being a Google company, it may come around the same time as Gmail gdrive etc... So as of now, never!
The app will come if the revenue streams from other platforms start to flatline.
Which is about when the next fad has come and no one cares about app X. And then we will be hearing the 35 year old kiddies crying that they can't play the new Mario Kart on their Windows Phone.
hahahaha katter pie. hahahahaajah
This is why I will get an iPhone next time smh, Windows Phone will never get all the apps.
Just go for an iPhone 6s. Because we all know that the iPhone 7 will look the same as the 6s.
So you're saying it will look good then...
No, he is saying it will cost more for the same product of the last 5 years. But will always beat lagdroid that's for sure
Microsoft should go fight for be the secound platform for popular apps, paying developers to delay development to the third platform. Eksample: if there is a realy good app who is created for iOs, then they must try to be the next platform to have the app, buying some exlusive time to be the other platform (etc 3 month), before they deploy the android app. Microsoft must also start pushing cheap WP Phones through cooperating with mobile manufacturers, so they don't loose all the momentum.
The only momentum Windows phones have is downward.
But its odd to do considering that even windows 10 apps look way more primitive than android/ios and these limitations that devs keep talking about
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"Microsoft should go fight for be the secound platform for popular apps, paying developers to delay development to the third platform.". And you think MS still care about Windows mobile?
No we probably won't see this app. I blame MS for this. I mean why would the developers make this game available for an OS where they themselves said they wont do anything this year!
So i am 16 years old and i belive that i am using my phone correctly I only us It for calling and sending messages maybe check the news once or twice a day and that's it you don't need a idiotic game like Pokémon go. If I wona play Pokémon I play it on my 3ds witch I never leave home when I am going for a trip or I play the classic ruby or leaf green on my phone witch I hardly play once every 3 month or so. And belive me I am a huge Pokémon fan but I don't really care for this app it would be fun for a month or two but it will end up with the rest of the games I had on my phone uninstalled since I hardly play on my phone.
I agree but sadly peoples are needy for w\e reason ,i never understand how someone can say gaming or watching movies on phones can be satisfying lol
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It's almost like people like different things. Weird.
Microsoft need to hurry up and buy Nintendo, and use them to get everyone on Windows mobile!
You act like Ballmer is still the CEO.
I got your answer and it is a big: NO!
I just signed, almost 35k signatures
35K of laughing....
After couple months of using windows phones i doubt in everything even their own microsoft apps works and looks better on android\ios , so happy i sold my windows phone and bought android back
Never again Microsoft...
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This is how it works when you say that you want to target business people mainly... so no people in suits on the streets hunting pokemon
I signed the petition. Yes, it's time we demand our own version and be heard, even if we don't believe in the iOS/Android craze. Competition and change are good for tech!
Keep dreaming. As Daniel said...petitions with stuff like this, don't do ****. The developer would just look and laugh.
Demand?
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