I went into the Apple store at Cherry Creek Mall in Denver and decided to check out the iPhone. The interface is just fantastic and I can now understand some of the hype behind this. To me it’s not a business phone without the ability to connect to corporate email servers. It does have IMAP and POP3 access but without something like ActiveSync capability, it just doesn’t cut the mustard. I’ve heard rumours that ActiveSync is coming for iPhone. Putting that aside the screen and responsiveness of the controls is great.
I think Microsoft could produce something similar using Silverlight. Currently Silverlight runs within a browser using a compact .NET runtime engine. I can’t see any reason why Microsoft couldn’t have a runtime which didn’t have to run within the browser, so that the entire interface is Silverlight. I think this is a great idea!!
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July 17th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
And weren’t you the one that laughed at me when I said this???
July 17th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Yes, I did!!
… I’m eating humble pie as we speak!!
I should’ve learnt by now that you’re always right.