Microsoft brings their Windows Phone developer tools into beta according to mobilecrunch, but will we see any music apps for Microsoft's new mobile platform?
Windows Phone 7 tools into beta
Microsoft brings their Windows Phone developer tools into beta according to mobilecrunch, but will we see any music apps for Microsoft's new mobile platform?
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I think a couple newcomers will do WinPhone 7. Silverlight can do music apps as I've mentioned before... but I don't know how much efficiency the platform has in comparison to iOS XCode (which is pretty lean/mean). I suspect that it will be much weaker/smaller of an ecosystem in comparison to iOS or Android. Much like Palm, Microsoft is killing backwards compatibility in order to get into a game already won by two dominant platforms.
I expect Microsoft to exit out of the mobile space or die trying to get back in it.
And this is coming from a former PC platform fanboy.
Microsoft is in for the long term. Look at the first Xbox. When they announced it, everybody laughed at them and said they would fail. People said they could never dethrone the mighty Sony Playstation2/3 (who themselves had broken into a new market with the PS1 with people also saying saying they would no win against Nintendo and Sega).
Apple has the advantage now, but if they keep treating customers like that (no satire on the appstore and other stupid terms of use, having to wait years for basic functions like copy/paste or folders/wallpapers, making devices obsolete after 2 years, etc) they will lose marketshare. Personnally, I find all their mp3 players useless just because of the lack of buttons, buttons are really handy when you want to change the track or the volume without looking at the screen, like when you're riding a bike (which I do everyday).
Also, note that Microsoft works with many other big names collaborators (HP, Dell, Samsung, etc etc etc, the list is endless), and Apple works alone, and doesn`t want to play nice with anyone (they won't let anyone else use their OS on their devices). In the end that can only hurt, I mean, as big at they are, they cannot compete with everybody else at once, and produce as much units and push them to users as everyone else.
Yeah they could probably get some apps running but I doubt they can get the input latency to the quality of iOS. Mr. A is right they probably will fail, and we'll be left to wonder what could have been. With any measure of success I could see MS being more lenient with file upload/download and other issues we've had with iOS. Achieving that success does seem unlikely though.
@johnnyg0
In spite of the tone of my previous post, I would love your perspective coming too fruition.
@jamie
If a single man could create Asio4All and give low latency to pretty much every soundcard ever built, I doubt a billion dollar corporation can't do the same.
I think its just a matter of time before Apple loses the lead, especially if they don't change, but I also think its going to take many years before that happens.
And in the end, I have a feeling we will never have a monoculture of OSes in the mobile environment the same way we had with desktops (windows), its going to be more fragmented, much like the cellphones environment, filled with many companies who won't share or let other companies use their techs (Apple isn't the first company to act like this :)
As a long time Pocket PC and Windows Mobile user I'd love to see MS do something that sparked more WinMo apps, but if devs don't take it up then that's not going to happen.
I really hope that MS are in the mobile space for the long term, and if we start to see some serious music apps for their platform I'll even buy a device so long as I can get a PDA version and not a phone.
Something like a revamp of Griff would be awesome, so I'm hoping that they do take it seriously like they have with XBox.
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