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According to Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, 7 minutes of Steve Jobs' keynote is allotted for Microsoft. Microsoft will reportedly be talking about their development tool Visual Studio 2010. The new version of Visual Studio will reportedly allow developers to write native applications for the iPhone, iPad and Mac OS.
The move would be a big surprise given Apple and Microsoft's competitive history. In addition, the announcement of PC-based development suite for iPhone and Mac OS would be major announcement.
I know of a number of developers that have purchased Macs to work on the iPhone. The price of entry is actually quite low -- $600 for the Mac Mini.
If high end users tend to drive what's cool to own, wouldn't you rather force programmers to learn about the Mac and maybe drive a few converts? I don't see any reason for Apple to invite Visual Studio into the iPhone game unless Apple's worried that Android is gaining ground.
It's always a mistake to pretend a rumor like this is true, but it's fun to play like it is. I've got to wonder what Jobs is thinking now. Seriously, does the App Store need more hobbyist crap throwing sound grenades and whoopie cushions on the iPhone? I hope MS is paying dearly for this privilege. Hey Ballmer, GIVE IT UP FOR MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Update:
Update: Barron's reports that Chowdhry has retracted both of yesterday's claims, indicating that there will be no Microsoft announcements at WWDC. Chowdhry notes with any remaining credibility he might have, however, that his contacts "insist that both MSFT and AAPL are working on development tools - probably our timing is off".
Well, it was an interesting fantasy, at least. I do wonder if most rumors aren't some strange "trial balloon" attempt. Wonder what might have been learned from this one?
The benefits of GPS capability [on a point and click camera] aren't as clear. All cameras suffer a performance lag compared with phones, which can use nearby wireless signals to approximate their position quickly. (Eye-Fi's Explore SD Card, which records nearby WiFi signals for later matching up with a database of WiFi signals , worked faster for the same reason.)
The hardback's only $13, but I've been reading more books on my iPod touch recently than hardback, so I thought I'd see if I could find a good eBook version. No luck at Amazon or BN.com, but a quick Google got me this...
Below you'll find lnks to downloadable editions of the text of For the Win. These downloads are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license, which lets you share it, remix it, and share your remixes, provided that you do so on a noncommercial basis. Some people don't understand why I do this -- so check out this post if you want my topline explanation for why I do this crazy thing.
Wow. Very nice. It's nice to see someone be quite this dedicated to ideals. Is it worth $13 to have a printed copy in my hands? Probably not. The last two books I've read (and am reading) as codices -- Deon Meyer's Dead Before Dying and Brian Herbert's horribly written but exceptionally interesting Dreamer of Dune are both old library hardbacks via Amazon's used marketplace. $6-7 is about my max these days.
I don't know that many starving artists are going to go this route, nor would their publisher probably go for it either, as this is a move that would kill fledgling sales. Still, I'm nearly always impressed when people treat information as something Free, and this is one of those times I'm happily impressed. The whole world's a library!
EDIT: It looks like the easiest way to read this on an iPhone or iPod is to get the Stanza app. Once you've got it, hit "Get Books", Catalo, scroll down to "Free Books", select Feedbooks - Free Content, Public Domain Books, Authors, etc etc.
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