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No way. Why would MS drive more consumers to the iphone only to retain developers? Consumers outnumber developers, what? 10000:1? Also, what signal would MS be
by latch 16y ago
No way.
Why would MS drive more consumers to the iphone only to retain developers? Consumers outnumber developers, what? 10000:1? Also, what signal would MS be sending to its developers about its own future platform.
More likely is some native office apps, bing search integration, and maybe silverlight news for MacOS.
- lftl 16y agoI'm not saying you're wrong about this announcement, but honestly I see MS's strongest position right now to be with developers and in the enterprise. It's not going to happen overnight, but I think we're seeing a pretty strong shift away from traditional computing for most consumer applications. MS really has no traction in that market (I suppose they could try to build off XBox), but they're still dominant in the business sector. As such I don't think it'd be a mistake for them to focus on developers and tools.
- latch 16y agoWorth pointing out that I don't see how this makes much sense from Apple's perspective either. Their march towards HTML5 is going surprisingly well, they aren't hurting for more apps or developers. This'll be about Office 2011 on MacOSX, and maybe, maybe, some native office apps for the iphone. I think even bing on iphone is out of the question.