You can download the Windows Phone 7 SDK right now from this link. Make us some good stuff, programmers. [Windows Phone Developer]
You can download the Windows Phone 7 SDK right now from this link. Make us some good stuff, programmers. [Windows Phone Developer]
Your Mate Alex
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 11:23 AMThis is more a general comment about all the news on all the WP7 news coming through today. Giving the SDK away. Another really positive and aggressive move by Microsoft. I love my iPhone. My wife even calls it the mistress. Despite this, I’m a lot more excited about trying out the new Windows Phone than the next iPhone. Apple, you’re being out-buzzed. Having upgraded from the 3G to the 3GS, I can’t help but feel that Apple are going to drop the ball with the new iPhone. Their policy of creating buzz through extreme secrecy only works if there’s nothing else on the cards. The Microsoft PR must be loving it. It’s biggest phone competitor is completely silent allowing them all the limelight. Can’t help but feel that of Microsoft, Apple and Google, it is Microsoft that are making the best business decisions to swing market share over the following years to their advantage. They might be late in the game but the timing is on their side at the moment. Personally, I’ve all but decided to switch over.
Red T-Rex
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 4:12 PMAs a developer, I am really interested in the iPhone and would have loved to toy with making some apps but requiring a machine to run OS/X has always stood in my way. If they had a windows version of the dev kit I would have been there a long time ago despite having to get familiar with Objective C. These announcements by Microsoft has me eagerly anticipating the windows phone OS especially seeing I can download the dev kit right now. Looks like Apple have missed the opportunity of making a lot more converts. The XBOX Live integration will have developers flocking to it.
I know if I was to get serious about the mobile apps market I would be a fool to ignore the iphone in the long run after all, most apps wanted on one platform are desired on all the others.
Whether the Windows Phone OS will end up convincing the general public to buy the handsets is another matter.