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iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest
imamac writes "Startup Weekend was a 54-hour coding marathon held on Microsoft's campus last weekend. It was designed to encourage the use of MS programming technologies. However, the winner of the contest was an iPhone app: '"Awkward," whispered Startup Weekend organizer Clint Nelsen into the microphone upon announcing the top vote getter.'"
They shouldn't be able to win until apple accepts the app for download.
I always thought rule one was "Make 100% sure Bill Gates won't be showing a crowd a BSOD!" Not saying anything good about the competition might be rule #2.
XCode is free, only deploying to a real iPhone/iPod and selling in the app store costs money.
Why should anyone pay money to develop for WinMo? it's market share has shrunk and C++ isn't a nice to write in as Objective C.
Xcode is free if you've got a Mac. Otherwise it costs 1 Macintosh worth of dollars.
Granted it moves every year, but this year it was also held at the Microsoft campus - and the 14 other apps were all written for Windows Mobile.
Microsoft sponsored, at the Microsoft Campus, with mostly Microsoft apps - well, is it really so inaccurate to label it a Microsoft event even though technically it is not?
It's close enough to be funny anyway.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Well let's give them a little credit in not requiring everyone to only use MS products and develop for MS platforms.
Schnapple
So you can build all the applications you want. But if you want to actually run them on your iPhone, it's $100.
"We're giving away this car for free! But if you actually want to start it and drive it, you'll need to pay $50,000 for the key. Oh, and if you somehow tinker with the car so that you don't need to use this key, the car's warranty is voided."
Nice dance, fanboi. But if you want to develop applications for your own personal use on the iPhone, it'll cost you $100.
Encourage use of MS tech by providing a mobile OS that doesn't suck. The last two years I had to develop for WM, and every time I thought I cannot be disappointed more I was wrong.Â
You know, two months ago I gladly payed $100 second time for my iDP program. Fanboism has nothing to do with it - these costs were recovered on the first day of my app sales.
Some people spending money on apple stuff, some people are making money on the apple stuff.
Some are just posting on Slashdot.
> You can develop directly on your windows mobile pda.
You can remove your appendix using a toothpick sticked into your left eye...
Nice research skills there MS fan boi, your own personal one is free others cost money! You can develop for the Windows Mobile platform for free, but not with any MS supported compilers. Minimum price for the ability to do it with supported compilers is whatever Visual Studio standard costs. Like $300.00 but you can get it free if you give up a weekday and attend the exact right launch party like I did.
Why bother
C# is a toy language like VB
Why bother
Have you ever actually used MS development tools? Yes, Visual Studio costs quite a bit of money, but it's light years ahead of any other dev environment.
Why do people keep repeating that? Even Microsoft's own developers admit that their C/C++ indexing is primitive and broken, while Eclipse's CDT, which has had maybe 0.0001% of the funding and man-hours, is already far superior.
Sam ty sig.
Because the vast majority of Windows programs aren't written in C/C++ any more? Love it or hate it, almost all new Windows application development is in .net now.
You can also drive with your feet, that don't mean it's to be done
Yeah, sorry. I use Visual Studio every day and dabble in Eclipse and XCode. I prefer either of the later to Visual Studio. Visual Studio isn't a bad IDE, and it is certainly an appropriate choice for Windows only development, but saying it "light years ahead" of any other environment suggests you have never used anything else.