Comments on: SuperMondays – SuperMobile http://www.jamesrutherford.com/blog/2010/03/29/supermondays-supermobile/ Web, design, Newcastle, games and fun! Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Super Mondays » SuperMobile, a review http://www.jamesrutherford.com/blog/2010/03/29/supermondays-supermobile/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Super Mondays » SuperMobile, a review Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:21:52 +0000 http://www.jamesrutherford.com/?p=285#comment-25 [...] Thank you to everybody who attended and James for allowing me to plagiarise his write-up ;) [...] [...] Thank you to everybody who attended and James for allowing me to plagiarise his write-up ;) [...]

]]> By: james http://www.jamesrutherford.com/blog/2010/03/29/supermondays-supermobile/comment-page-1/#comment-24 james Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:24:22 +0000 http://www.jamesrutherford.com/?p=285#comment-24 Thanks Paul- fixed! @Alex - I base that point primarily on the pub chat with Peter afterwards. 7 Series sounds like it's easy to migrate to for Zune/Silverlight developers, and Microsoft know they have to compete with both the slickness of iPhone and openness of Android to have a chance of success. They've done wonderful things with the XBox XNA / Live Marketplace to open up development, so I'm hoping they can replicate that on mobile. It also sounds like they're going to have a decent value paid music subscription service. Microsoft have the financial and marketing grunt to make a decent product gain traction in a dominated market- I remember how I snorted when they announced they were going head-on against PlayStation years back! Having said that, I wasn't overly keen on the user interface from my brief introduction- ultimately, these things won't dent mainstream if they don't look and work nicely as phones (and, arguably, cameras). All extra functionality must arrive by stealth! Thanks Paul- fixed!

@Alex – I base that point primarily on the pub chat with Peter afterwards.
7 Series sounds like it’s easy to migrate to for Zune/Silverlight developers, and Microsoft know they have to compete with both the slickness of iPhone and openness of Android to have a chance of success. They’ve done wonderful things with the XBox XNA / Live Marketplace to open up development, so I’m hoping they can replicate that on mobile. It also sounds like they’re going to have a decent value paid music subscription service.

Microsoft have the financial and marketing grunt to make a decent product gain traction in a dominated market- I remember how I snorted when they announced they were going head-on against PlayStation years back!

Having said that, I wasn’t overly keen on the user interface from my brief introduction- ultimately, these things won’t dent mainstream if they don’t look and work nicely as phones (and, arguably, cameras). All extra functionality must arrive by stealth!

]]> By: Alex Kavanagh http://www.jamesrutherford.com/blog/2010/03/29/supermondays-supermobile/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Alex Kavanagh Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:58:48 +0000 http://www.jamesrutherford.com/?p=285#comment-23 I'm not sure about Windows Phone 7 series sounding promising. I honestly don't think there is room for another closed source mobile phone operating system amongst all the other ones out there. I really don't see how it will gain traction. I’m not sure about Windows Phone 7 series sounding promising. I honestly don’t think there is room for another closed source mobile phone operating system amongst all the other ones out there. I really don’t see how it will gain traction.

]]> By: Paul Smith http://www.jamesrutherford.com/blog/2010/03/29/supermondays-supermobile/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Paul Smith Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:17:30 +0000 http://www.jamesrutherford.com/?p=285#comment-22 Hi James, Cheers for mentioning App North. It was Jon Nairn from @neverodd on the panel, not Jonathan Williamson. Ta! P Hi James,

Cheers for mentioning App North. It was Jon Nairn from @neverodd on the panel, not Jonathan Williamson.

Ta!

P

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