Microsoft releases first iPhone application, Seadragon

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jordache mcqueen @ Dec 14th 2008 6:05PM

So why isn't this available on MICROSOFT windows mobile? not that i really care cause it doesn't seem worth a damn, but after watching iphoners get app after app from different companies it would be nice to at least receive a first party app for my touch pro before the damn iphoners.

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GoodWill8675 @ Dec 14th 2008 10:12PM

Were just better. That's why.

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Ray Lopez @ Dec 15th 2008 12:33AM

Or maybe Microsoft is testing the development process of an iPhone application and researching why this process is successful.

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NuShrike @ Dec 15th 2008 5:46AM

Probably because it needs a good FPU/GPU and WM is so fragmented and screwed up right now they can't even prevent vendor companies like HTC from shipping devices without video drivers (ref Kaiser).

None of the latest HTC WM devices have a decent GPU/FPU/driver because they're using Qualcomm, Microsoft doesn't ship WinCE OS with native hardware acceleration for GPU/FPU, WinCE OS doesn't ship with hardware acceleration for the latest ARM cpus available, and MS doesn't have any compilers that support the latest cpus.

iPhone with gcc, vertically integrated OS, designed all the hardware themselves, no vendor contract issues, obviously wins here.

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