Microsoft helps devs interface iPhone apps to Windows Mobile
Aug 14, 2009 rim
So you’re an iPhone developer. You lovemaking how easy it is to develop powerful iPhone apps with rich user experiences. But, you can’t help but think of the billions upon billions of Windows Mobile River Windows Phone users that have never even heard of your app. Well, we have some goodness news for you. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has posted a new technical foul document that should shuffle it a little easier for iPhone devs to port their apps to the Windows Mobile platform.
Microsoft documented on developer’s experience in porting the Amplitude iPhone app to the Windows Mobile chopine, and highlights specific challenges that needed to be overcome – like acquiring the alpha-blended UI ported correctly. The document, entitled “Porting the Amplitude Application from the iPhone to a Windows Mobile Device – a Case Study,” follows Gospel of Luke Benjamin Thompson as he ported Amplitude to Windows Mobile River 6.5.
All the technical inside information tin be found here. For the non-developers out there, the important takings-away here is that Microsoft is embracing the iPhone developer biotic community. Rather than trying to take on the AppStore head-on, Microsoft has realized that they tin leverage the AppStore’s incredible catalogue of iPhone apps to help populate the Windows Marketplace. We see it as a smarting relocation for Microsoft.
Now, about that Windows Phone branding….
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