iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest 233
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.'"
Then there's the App Store (Score:4, Insightful)
They shouldn't be able to win until apple accepts the app for download.
Re:Apple apps vs. Micro$oft apps (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free! (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free (Score:5, Insightful)
Also held on Microsoft campus (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Startup Weekend NOT An MS Event (Score:5, Insightful)
Well let's give them a little credit in not requiring everyone to only use MS products and develop for MS platforms.
Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free (Score:5, Insightful)
> You can develop directly on your windows mobile pda.
You can remove your appendix using a toothpick sticked into your left eye...
Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:The only way to win (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:The only way to win (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:The only way to win (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:The only way to win (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The only way to win (Score:5, Insightful)
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.