After the price drop, I got an iPhone “for my wife”. My 8525 has most of the features of the iPhone and then some. It has 3G and can stream internet radio. I have a choice of 3 browsers for it, thousands of other 3rd party apps, and I can write code using the same language I use for my day job. But I can still do more with less effort on the [wife’s] iPhone.
It all comes down to different philosophies on software and hardware. Apple dictates with iron fist the entire platform from hardware to software, providing developers a limited API for customization. Microsoft sells the OS and guidelines for hardware, and tools to let developers do just about anything possible with the devices. Each approach has its merits. I can sense frustrated Apple developers guiltily sneaking peeks at the .NET Compact Framework after hours, and what .NET dev doesn’t seem a little depressed with their now bulky, unpretty clunker of a phone?
Even so, the Windows Mobile platform isn’t dead. I suspect Microsoft has more than a few developers busy coming up with an answer to the iPhone. In the meantime, my recommendation to .NET developers considering an iPhone? Read up:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneHIG/
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneHIG/iPhoneHIG.pdf
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