“‘It is a humorous world in how Microsoft is much more open than Apple,’ Brandon Watson, the director of product management in the developer platform at Microsoft, told me in an interview yesterday,” Worthington reports. “With Microsoft’s platforms, developers can build whatever they want, and target a broad array of devices using the same skill set, he added.”
“Watson claimed that many developers of applications for the iPhone OS–which the iPad uses–are not making money,” Worthington reports. “Developing applications for the iPhone and iPad is expensive, he said, because iPhone OS uses the Objective C language rather than Microsoft’s more pervasive .NET platform. And Apple’s control over the platform has alienated some people that make software for its products, he said.”
“Microsoft’s criticism misses the target altogether. What Apple has envisioned with the iPad isn’t a traditional PC–it’s more of an appliance… The iPad isn’t a PC,” Worthington explains. “I’ve gone on trips to Boston and Washington DC over the past several weekends, and spend hours riding Amtrak and on Wi-Fi-enabled busses. I didn’t bring a laptop with me, because I didn’t want to lug one around, and didn’t really need to have a full fledged computer with me. My iPhone provided me with entertainment along the way. Truth be told, I would rather have had an iPad with me to surf the Web, listen to music, watch movies and read. If the price comes down even further, Apple’s got a winner.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft bleats like a lamb being led to slaughter.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Irakli C.” for the heads up.]