Microsoft courts webOS developers; 1,000 make the leap

Re:Microsoft courts webOS developers; 1,000 make the leap by jefflinwood on Monday August 22, 2011 @08:31PM (#2914780)

I don't think I'd describe this as "making the leap" - I have a published TouchPad app, and I was curious about the upcoming Mango/WP7.5, so I emailed about the WebOS->Windows offer - basically, I got an email back with a list of resources to explore to build a Windows Phone app. Not sure what the followup is going to be.

There's nothing really free about it - my dev environment is OS X, so I'd have to get a copy of Windows 7 ($100 from Amazon), install it in Parallels for the Mac ($60), join Microsoft's AppHub ($99/year), all to get (maybe) a free WP7 phone.

Also, from what I can tell, there's zero overlap between WebOS and Windows Phone 7 development, so all these WebOS devs would be starting from scratch.

Frankly, I'm kind of surprised that Google's Android dev relations team didn't make a similar offer.

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Re:Microsoft courts webOS developers; 1,000 make the leap by jefflinwood on Monday August 22, 2011 @08:33PM (#2914788)

Oh, as a point of reference, developing and releasing apps for WebOS 3/TouchPad cost nothing, and the development environment ran on Linux, OS X, and Windows - basically, it's a collection of command line utilities, WebOS 3 running in a VirtualBox, and Google Chrome.

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