Developers: MS Hopes To Lure iOS Apps With API Mapping Tool

Microsoft isn't standing idly by while Appple's app store fills with software; fysdt writes "A newly-announced service called the iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool acts as an interchange for developers to take applications they've already written for Apple's platform, and figure out ways to get the code work with Microsoft's standards."

The first step to meeting Microsoft's standards...

[Samantha Wright]

...is lowering your own.

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"And figure out ways to get the code to work"

[The O Rly Factor]

Sounds like Microsoft development in a nutshell.

Re:Biggest problem with iOS development

[Karlt1]

is that you have to (AFAIK) buy a Mac to develop for it. I can't really fault Apple on this as it's a great business strategy, but I simply can't be bothered so I'll only make apps for Android, which doesn't require me to buy hardware.

All you have to buy is a dozen different phones to make sure your app is compatible and then enjoy on average 5% of the sales of the Apple app store....

mnemonic

[Gary W. Longsine]

It's easier to remember this stuff, when you recall that what actually happened was that NeXT acquired Apple for a negative four hundred million dollars ($US -400 million).