MS software architect: Apps don’t make the phone
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Desktops , Hardware , Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store This sounds an awful lot like sour grapes to me: Ray Ozzie , Microsoft’s chief software engineer, told a Professional Developers’ Conference earlier this week that it wasn’t the apps that would make or break the smartphone platforms. Of course, that’s what most press and blog outlets seem to be focusing on (maybe because we all already know what the hardware is like — apps change every day if not every minute, and the hardware only changes occasionally), but Ozzie says customers won’t buy a phone for the apps. The biggest apps, he says, will eventually be available on every platform. To put it in as few words as possible, you’ll be able to tweet from everything in the future. And he’s got part of a good point there: it’s true, the major functionality of “killer apps” will be available across platforms.
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MS software architect: Apps don’t make the phone
