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Scott Guthrie Hints At Silverlight On iPhone

After looking at Silverlight 2, it seemed to me that Apple might be considering Silverlight for the iPhone. And just now, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, live on stage at Mix 08 in Las Vegas dropped a hint that suggested Microsoft may have already done the deal. He said something like - Expect to see Microsoft putting Sliverlight on as many mobile devices as possible, not just Windows Mobile devices…. *pause*… anything with an SDK.

There’s no doubt that Scott would have known what he was saying by using the word “SDK “in the context of mobile devices the day before the much-anticipated launch of the iPhone SDK. People in the audience at Mix got the hint too, judging by the laughter. The question is - was Scott just having a little fun, or will there be a surprise announcement tomorrow at the Apple event?

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Comments

Asam Bashir wrote:

There is nothing for Apple to consider regarding Silverlight, it’s already available for Mac OS X. It’s a very small port for Microsoft to deliver a Silverlight plugin for iPhone. Same goes with Flash, Jobs has said current Flash Player to big for iPhone’s current processor, so it’s up to Adobe to develop and release a light version for iPhone Safari.

Will be interesting to watch which of the two companies ’sees the light’ first…

Posted 06 Mar 2008 at 10:02 pm ¶
simon wrote:

You might be right - I’m not sure. If it’s technically easy enough, I guess MS might do it. I’d have thought they’d prefer to partner with Apple though, to make sure everything is tuned optimally, and maybe get Apple to integrate Silverlight into Safari etc.

It might not matter though. The iPhone SDK looks interesting enough to gain a critical mass of developer mindshare on its own.

Posted 06 Mar 2008 at 11:03 pm ¶
simon wrote:

Just been watching Steve Ballmer at Mix. He said that there haven’t been extensive discussions with Steve Jobs about Silverlight on iPhone.

He also made the interesting point that Apple might not be too interested in welcoming royalty-free run-times onto the iPhone platform, given that Apple wants to take 30% of revenues for all rich apps developed for iPhone. The truth is, though, given that Apple bears all the costs associated with hosting, provisioning, billing etc, and you get your app in the Apple market place, 70% is actually a reasonable deal.

Posted 06 Mar 2008 at 11:55 pm ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:

Silverlight is marketed as a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in, by definition then it must support the iPhone/iTouch platform, if it doesn’t but delivers Silverlight on other mobile platforms then it can rightly be taken to court for anti-competitive behaviour which I’m sure it would want to avoid. I don’t see how Apple would care about any revenue from a plug-in, Microsoft is an existing partner. There is an excellent opportunity for Microsoft and it’s MacBU to develop and sell mini Office versions which would complement it’s desktop Office 2008. Microsoft are already the biggest Mac developers so they would be foolish to miss this opportunity.

Posted 07 Mar 2008 at 2:33 am ¶
Michael Sync wrote:

That’s a great news.. I’m so much into Silverlight now..

Posted 07 Mar 2008 at 9:54 am ¶

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