This morning I discovered on the web magazine create or die the first announcement of what me and my developer teammate André are currently urging for: the beta version of Silverlight 2 Mobile, which is scheduled for the first quarter of 2009.
If you want to know, which additional features the mobile version will have and which of the current Silverlight 2.0 features will be cutted, you can read a detailed article about the announcement on The Register.
We will keep you up with the latest news about Silverlight Mobile.
Until then, hang in there!
Oh shit:
What seems to be happening is that Google has finally realized that they are competing for developers’ time, even those that they are not employing. After seeing thousands of Facebook developers build over 26,000 applications in a year, it’s no wonder that the company has become heavily invested in the fight for developer attention.
From Google Opens to Futher the “Platform Wars†– Covering All That’s Social On the Web
Microsoft had realized this two centuries before: the developers (= producers) are the key to the success for every platform! Microsoft did a great job in the past years to build strong developer communities and they spend a lot of money to build and extend these communities and so does Facebook, but not Google …
I’m dizzy – exciting and important news come in too fast. The major internet and tech companies fight for the next big thing on the Internet: Platform-as-a-Service, in short PaaS. In other terms: who will provide the standard for an “Internet Operating System” (for consumer applications; business applications are a different battleground)?
I don’t know and I don’t want to guess … you?
