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No Steve Ballmer Appearance at WWDC Keynote
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Is this "Wall Street" or the "Wall Street Journal"?
if it's the WSJ, that pretty much just shows how they like to start a rumor.
Hint!: iPhone going Verizon?
mhmm..
if it's the WSJ, that pretty much just shows how they like to start a rumor.
Hint!: iPhone going Verizon?
mhmm..
I heard it best this way, "An analyst is someone who is afraid to be an investor but still claim's expertise by putting the abbreviation for 'your sitting time' after their real title."
So they aren't denying the possibillity of developing iPhone apps in VS 2010?
Am I getting this right that all they have done is say that Ballmer won't be at WWDC? Nothing about VS 2010?
Am I getting this right that all they have done is say that Ballmer won't be at WWDC? Nothing about VS 2010?
I'm a Mac developer. I'm an iPhone developer. And I'm also a Windows (well, ASP.NET) developer. It pains me to say it, but Visual Studio is vastly superior to Xcode in just about every conceivable way. Even though I knew it wasn't likely to be true, just the thought of being able to use Visual Studio to develop iPhone apps instead of Xcode was enough to get my hopes up.
You'd still need to TEST OSX applications on a Mac.
And this would make concurrent development of OSX and Windows versions of, say, a game much easier. Let the developers develop where they're comfortable, y'know? If the software EXISTS, it's good for the Mac platform.
It would also get the FTC off of Apple's ass about banning Flash as an iPhone development platform, because they could just say, "What antitrust actions? Se — you can use Visual Studio, too."
So there are plenty of ways this is good for Apple — but I'm also not sure what Microsoft would gain out of it.
There's still hope. Who cares if Ballmer presents it or not?
it would look exactly the same as when gates appeared on the presentation in 1997 
he knows that it would definitelly happen
he knows that it would definitelly happen 
Well, that was a pretty quick end to that one.... So I guess we don't have an MS Office for iPad coming out anytime soon then.
I'm getting a bit tired of the "journalism" these days. Anything gets published without any fact or reality checking and then it's up to whoever gets smashed by these made-up-news to try to correct the rumors, once those are all over the net and the misunderstandings have already been made. This one is on the more ridiculous side, but sometimes these "news" are just nasty and harmful.
Yes, you would. Still, Apple would lose sales - since developers would be using windows - developers regularly out number the QA testers on project teams.
Anyway, for the moment, I'm glad this is not happening.
( partly why I'm not in favour of OSX development on Windows - If I'm developing for OSX - I'd want to use OSX - and not windows. Windows generally makes a horrible development environment ( depending on what your doing, of course - Java etc ). I'd rather the company being forced to buy OSX machines for development - rather than use windows. I'm absolutely sick of developing on windows on a daily basis. )
Who would want this crazy-a88 MoFo to speak at ANY Apple event unless it include him bending over and royally kissing Jobs' a88 on TV? I'll pay a dollar for that, and subscribe to "MicroSoft Weekly".
