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Microsoft says mobile apps aren’t important

0.0By James F. Koopmann November 19, 2009 01:56 PM

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Microsoft says mobile apps aren’t important

This week at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference, chief software architect Ray Ozzie stated that mobile apps aren’t an important factor in the success of a smartphone platform. Instead Mr. Ozzie stated that instead “all the apps that count” will end up being on every smartphone anyway. It might take some time but the port to different devices / operating systems would be very short given the development cycle for smartphones is much shorter than say for desktop computing.


The question now becomes does Mr. Ozzie really believe this or is he downplaying Apple’s extensive app store, the recent beating the Windows Mobile store has taken, or beefing up Android’s lack of one. Either way I think he is on some shaky ground here as we should all agree that yes, core applications will and should be on every device but when it comes to differentiating a device or operating system it WILL come down to the implementation of standard apps as well as having the best developers building the next wiz-bang application before, and possible not, porting to that next device.



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