Is it possible for developers to see this merely as microsoft positioning everything to be more like apple?
I'm seeking some validation if the following is now true:
wpf ~~ cocoa (for mac)
silverlight ~~ cocoa touch
html5 (formerly SL when used as webapps) ~~ html5.
I hope microsoft pitches the above this way, so developers like me that need to use their tech stack can sleep easy at night. It's a simpler way to think about everything. And Flash can still have it's place for RIA and grow to be a premier tools developer for html5 apps.
Remember, apple originally took an opposite direction when the iphone first came out, originally expecting developers to develop mobile html applications for the phone. That idea died quickly, and a year later Cocoa Touch and the App Store came out.
It's not quite that simple, because Silverlight is for desktop apps as well, and there are also the Windows native APIs (which are strongly rumored to be getting an overhaul in 8).
I'm seeking some validation if the following is now true:
wpf ~~ cocoa (for mac)
silverlight ~~ cocoa touch
html5 (formerly SL when used as webapps) ~~ html5.
I hope microsoft pitches the above this way, so developers like me that need to use their tech stack can sleep easy at night. It's a simpler way to think about everything. And Flash can still have it's place for RIA and grow to be a premier tools developer for html5 apps.
Remember, apple originally took an opposite direction when the iphone first came out, originally expecting developers to develop mobile html applications for the phone. That idea died quickly, and a year later Cocoa Touch and the App Store came out.