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[Alan Pope <alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marco,

On 15 September 2015 at 14:29, Marco Graziotti <graziottimarco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, I understood that there are problem for developing software to ARM based
> architecture, right?

Not really. Look at the two most popular mobile platforms, the vast
majority of those devices are ARM based. For free software programs
that are in the archive and successfully build for ARM (as well as
other architectures) then there is less of an issue (assuming they
work under Mir or XMir). What is a problem (for some consumers) is the
availability of proprietary software on their platform of choice.
Skype (and others like WhatsApp) are proprietary, and thus only the
vendor can determine what platforms they support. It may be that
Microsoft make a Skype release which works on ARM on Ubuntu, but
that's very much up to them, as it's their investment.

Cheers,
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Alan Pope
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