Unified store planned for Windows Phone and Windows. RT on Phones?

TheVerge reports that Microsoft are planning to have just one store for both Windows and Windows Phone, hopefully signifying the importance of Windows Phone to Microsoft as it gets integrated more towards the main platform.

MS’ Terry Myerson said:

Windows RT was our first ARM tablet. And as phones extend into tablets, expect us to see many more ARM tablets, Windows ARM tablets in the future

Phones extending into tablets. Soon WP8 (via Nokia’s GDR3 phablets) will have the same resolution as the 1080p Surface pro. Would WP remain its own entity or would it eventually blend into RT? That’s one way to make a unified store easier to handle. Or they could go down the Apple route and just scale up phone apps to tablet?

This may come as soon as 8.1 (W8.1/WP8.1), with TheVerge proposing possibilities of Snap View. That’ll be nice, especially for multitasking on Phablets.

Cheers zxv for the tip

Category: Nokia, Windows Phone