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iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest

Posted by timothy on from the cross-platform dept.

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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  1. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free by Winckle · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can deploy it to a certain number of iPhones, including your own, for free, but for public distribution on the app store, that' s what costs $100.

  2. Languages? All the more reason... by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you want to develop for the iPhone, you will use Objective C. Your only other option is a web app, but providing that offline may or may not be allowed, and either way, it's not likely to expose the same APIs.

    Contrast this to Windows Mobile which, being an actually open platform (or at least as open as any other proprietary OS), will support any language people care to port to it. That goes double for Android.

    Me, I prefer Ruby. "Aha," you say, "That has iPhone support!" As many owners of jailbroken phones will tell you, it's not that you can't do this on the iPhone, it's that Apple might arbitrarily reject you for doing so.

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