Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Sep 5 18:37:39 CDT 2013
Hi Peter: >From a straight business point-of-view, owning Nokia, will give Microsoft access to markets they would never be able to generate. At present there are virtually no developer developing for the WinPhone platform so things can only get better. Just copying the concept of a successful app from another manufacturers has the immediate potential of making money, as competition is limited. OTOH, WinPhone will not be replace either iPhones or Android anytime in the immediate future. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 3:26:32 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Is Microsoft Dumping .Net? On 2013-09-05 3:33 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Hi Shamil: > > Let us hope that working on the new Windows phones will be very profitable. With the new potential, now that Windows owns Nokia, it is looking good. What would be good about that? > If you write in native code it is always faster running and a lot smoother. Sure, but marooned inside an operating system. PB ----- > > There are many developers that do but they also re-write their apps again for both the iOS and Android and it can be a very time consuming process. If a client wants some app done quickly, expensively, on multiple platforms is there any other way than to boiler-plate it together other than to write it in HTML5? > > PS You are doing a great hosting job? Are the streets very crowded? > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" <mcp2004 at mail.ru> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 2:15:18 AM > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Is Microsoft Dumping .Net? > > Hi Jim -- > > <<< > but at least in the short term, it may created a small group of entrenched developers. > Yes, if you are properly skilled, experienced, hardworking and lucky you have a chance to make your small fortune developing for WinPhone... and get happily yearly retired :) > > "Why Windows Phone is a huge opportunity for indie developers" > http://blog.brianhama.com/2013/08/29/windows-phone-opportunity-for-indie-devs/ > > > -- Shamil > > Wednesday, September 4, 2013 9:04 PM -06:00 from Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>: >> Hi Arthur: >> >> I just read an article on the same topic but the swing was the exact opposite. It was saying that Microsoft's adoption of the HTML5 standard was only half heartedly. MS just can't win. >> >> That fact is if MS wants to be taken seriously in the web world they are going to have to accept the standards. If that means something like the incorporating Google Youtube videos requires standardization, so be it. The rest of the internet has such a huge lead on Microsoft's adoption that unfortunately MS is going to have to just follow and at some time in the future they may be able to introduce their own standard where none currently exists or is not well established. >> >> The buying of Nokia phones may be just the opportunity for MS. A platform on which to develop their own standards...not a wise choice, in the long run, but at least in the short term, it may created a small group of entrenched developers. >> >> Jim >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Arthur Fuller" < fuller.artful at gmail.com > >> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" < dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com > >> Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:05:46 PM >> Subject: [dba-Tech] Is Microsoft Dumping .Net? >> >> Interesting article on I Programmer; suggests that MS's move to HTML5 and >> JavaScript has left lots of .Net programmers miffed and feeling abandoned. >> >> See >> http://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-programmer/2591-dumping-net-microsofts-madness.html >> . >> >> -- >> Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com