Did you know Foldable Dual-Screen Android Smartphone design and manufactured by Microsoft?

There have been two major problems with foldable devices so far: 1. The screens are very delicate and 2. Not very good on Android tablets and therefore the windowing system is poor. (And, well, a third major problem is that they have become super expensive.)

I don't know when the delicate thing will be fixed, but I like that Microsoft doesn't bother with flexible performance. It compromised on the Whiz-Bang hardware to make it more durable and in many ways elegant. But the trade-off is that the Duo has a large ol between the two screens. It's a car.

Microsoft deals with that reality which is one reason why I am really expecting more than today as I was about the opportunities for Doo yesterday. Because virtually no one customizes their Android app for the Duo, it should still work great. Instead of reducing the possibility of Duo to the nearly impossible task of making Android developers invest resources in completely new and unused phones, Microsoft is working with the ecosystem today.



The major reason is that Microsoft explicitly states that apps will only open on one screen by default and, in fact, apps will not be allowed to open on both screens - this can only happen when a user is in that window Ho. open.

None of this guarantees that the Duo will be any good or that my relative optimism will be rewarded. I'm just glad that Microsoft isn't ready to fail immediately by jumping off the whole situation. There is little chance that a ton of Android apps will be optimized for the Duo's dual screen for launch, but hopefully it won't make a difference.

Talking about things that are not guaranteed: Windows 10X. The developer tools for that OS are still forthcoming and questions about how it operates are much greater than those of Duo. Considering how many PC manufacturers are waiting for their OS for their fold, the stakes for Windows 10X are high.

As Tom Warren noted yesterday, we should expect to see more at Microsoft's Build Developers Conference in May. If ever there was a little less hand waving about 10X for Microsoft, this would be it.

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