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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. The only way to win by jellomizer · · Score: -1, Troll

    is to not use Microsoft Technologies. Seems to make sense to me. Using Microsoft Technologies you get canned solutions that do things that have been done over and over before. Breaking from them allow you to make wonderful apps.

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  2. Congratulations to all the contestants! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nice to see that there is yet another generation of committed developers out there that don't mind being shackled so long as their shackles either look nice or are very popular.

    1. Re:Congratulations to all the contestants! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      It is comforting that the next generation of developers will know how to shave and bathe, unlike some of their OSS counterparts.

  3. did you even read?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He said confirm, faggot!

  4. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Doesn't the iPhone SDK cost like $100 or something?

  5. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    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.

    Objective C are you kidding me, what a stupid language, C# is truly the next best language.

  6. 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.

  7. 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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