“It’s an understatement to say that Apple’s iPad generated a lot of chatter when it was announced on Wednesday; the scuttlebutt actually slowed down the Internet. Even Microsoft couldn’t help but weigh in, criticizing the iPad for being a ‘locked down device,'” David Worthington reports for Technologizer.
“‘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.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft bleats like a lamb being led to slaughter.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Irakli C.” for the heads up.]
I’m Out-Of-Touch-With-Reality, and I’m a PC.
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Yes, M$ likes their things to be open, open to attacks and to thieves
“”With Microsoft’s platforms, developers can build whatever they want, and target a broad array of devices using the same skill set, he added.””
Including hacks, viruses, trojans etc etc…
So because .NET is more pervasive, that doesn’t make it proprietary? FAIL.
“We’d rather have 80 to 90 percent of the tablet market than the 1 or 2 percent Apple is likely to get. We like our strategy. We like it a lot.”
target a broad array of devices
Yecchh… sounds like “write once, debug everywhere” to me.
Out of touch – and multi-touch.
It is amazing just how out of touch Microsift is with reality.
iCal this one, please.
Tablet PC’s don’t work, because tablets are not meant to be Pc’s. This is why they’ve failed for the last 10 years. This is what Microsoft fails to see.
M$ can’t even make decent FUD anymore.
“With Microsoft’s platforms, developers can build whatever they want, and target a broad array of devices using the same skill set, he added.”
Yeah, well if that’s such an advantage why hasn’t there been a Microsoft-partnered product to capture the world’s attention like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad?
I think this is a great device for people who really will use it. Unfortunately for people like me who need a real computer on them it seems like a toy at this point.
Having no use replacable battery Seems very non-green to me. I find the interface boring. With all these minds at apple I assume they will be updating the UI. But if the evolution of the OS X UI is any guage it may take years!
.Net (aka Microsoft proprietary C# ) is a vulnerable mess of a programing language. Objective C is a standard C programing language and is the Root of C++.
Which is easier to work with if you’re a C++ Programer?
The answer is Objective C.
Sitting in a sinking ship is scary Brandon, but there are life jackets out there. It’s called Apple (iPhone, iTouch, iPad), beg to get Bing on the new land instead.
Humorous? Microsoft offers Big Ass Table; Apple offers small tush tablet at 1/20 the price. So who’s laughing now? And about that Window Mobile effort going… Still like where you are?
The Objective-C vs. .Net argument is pure deflection. The evidence is the fact that some were able to develop applications only weeks after getting their first look at the tablet.
Baaaaaaaaaa. The “Silence of the MS Lambs” is a comin’!
Humorous?
Yes, Apple will be laughing all the way to the bank while the head of Windows Mobile will be standing right behind them waiting to make a withdrawal.
Must be gallows humor for the MS idiot…expect a knock off peice of crap copy from microsft sometime around 2015…
Yup, I can`t wait `til they show the hordes of 5lb atom powered windows 7 slabs with 4 hrs of battery life! 1 hr of productivity, 2hrs to edit the registry and the last hour to run around panicking looking for an outlet to charge it. Business ready of course.
Take that iPad!
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What’s humorous is the CEO of Microsoft…Monkey Boy!
Well, according to MIcrosoft’s Ballmer, the iPhone was a laugh. The more it stings, the more Microshaft resorts to theatrical laughter.
Just wish they had chosen a stable, fully developed OS like Windoz Mobile. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Actually this is the “blessing” I`ve been waiting for, 10 million sales minimum 1st year guaranteed.
Wow, so this MSFT manager was reading from the talking points memo MSFT sent around.
“‘It is a humorous world in how Microsoft is much more open than Apple,’
Meaning, even MSFT knows they’re not open.
“With Microsoft’s platforms, developers can build whatever they want, and target a broad array of devices using the same skill set, he added.”
Uhm, viruses, spyware, etc. Using OS X, developers can use the same skillset to build for Macs, iPhones, iPods and iPads.
“Watson claimed that many developers of applications for the iPhone OS–which the iPad uses–are not making money,”
Yeah, damning with faint praise, because what he really means is that there are so damn many iPhone developers the competition is fierce. Are any WinMo developers making money? Does MSFT even make any money developing WinMo?
“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.”
How does that explain that identical apps in the iPhone Store cost less than the ones in the WinMo store?
“And Apple’s control over the platform has alienated some people that make software for its products, he said.”
Uhm, duh, when you’ve got 10s of thousands of developers, some are going to be alienated. That’s probably the only way WinMo can get developers, castoffs.