Microsoft's mobile platform is in poor health. It is something popular and increasingly latent among users of the platform and non-Windows Phone users. But what nobody expects is that it is Microsoft itself that tries to end this platform.
Recently we have known that Microsoft will stop supporting and developing Minecraft Pocket for Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile. Something that surprises because Minecraft Pocket is a successful video game among young people that also belongs to Microsoft itself.
The reason for this decision is still unknown and it seems that it is not for technical reasons of the video game but rather on a whim or Microsoft's decision. Many of us believe that this is because Microsoft wants to power the new Windows platform for ARM and with these plans, Windows Phone itself is a problem.
Microsoft wants to release a version of Windows 10 for ARM this year and possibly also a version of Minecraft
On the other hand, many think that being a paid video game, Among the few users who have Windows Phone and even fewer who use the video game, the money earned does not compensate Microsoft and therefore its closure for the platform.
However users they have no real alternative to Windows Phone or this video game without having to pay for a new mobile, which finally makes many users and developers leave the platform, either because of this situation or because of past situations.
So, if you use Minecraft Pocket Edition and Windows Phone, either you stop paying for the service so as not to lose money or you stop updating the device so that it can work longer, but with the risk that this implies, both for the mobile phone and for our data. In any case, Minecraft joins that list of so many apps that leave the platform and that it seems that it will not return even if users ask for it.