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.'"

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Re:Is there anything

[natehoy]

I'm not sure what other features the dock connector supports, actually. Charging, music playback via the connected device, remote control via the connected device, data transfer. What am I missing?

For music-out, both my devices are equipped with a standard 3.5mm headset jack. I can plug it into my home stereo without the slightest problem. Which, to be fair, the iPod also has, so I can use an industry-standard audio jack for all of my devices. I don't need a specific solution for my iPod.

For remote start/stop/pause, at home I just use the onboard device controls and the car has a USB interface and the stereo does the actual playing, the MP3 player or BlackBerry only serves as a flash drive for those circumstances. Though, to be honest, I just have a cheapo flash drive in the car for my music and it just stays plugged into the USB port. If it gets broken or stolen, I'm out a few bucks, so there's no sense risking plugging in expensive hardware every time.

Most of the other nifty things the iPod can do work just fine over WiFi.

The Apple connector is a nice, one-unit solution to talk to an iPod/iPhone. But since they've made the plug proprietary, it does all those nifty things only for Apple hardware. And, oddly enough, other people out there make hardware, and I don't want to get locked in.