News Microsoft launches iPhone app

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/12/15/microsoft-launches-iphone-app/1

Microsoft has announced the launch of Seadragon Mobile, an image viewer available - for the moment - exclusively on rival Apple's iPhone platform.

 

I didn't see that one coming.

 

The iPhone's UI does look really nice for a phone, and apparently it can do this as well.

PowerVR graphics has to be something else. Lotsa power, on low power, in a small package.. Shame they don't use them in netbooks.

 

that app is superb, the maps makes the default iPhone Map look like a joke.

it's only a simple zoom application, i think they made it exclusively on iPhone is because of the unique multi-touch. it won't be the same experience on normal touch screen or using keypads

 

bah it's not like they havn't made software for apple products before...

 

Apparently it's broken now...

 

I just heard on the weather report that Hell just got it's first snowfall....

 

Have you tried to use office on the Mac?

 

it's a pretty silly app, not very useful

nice to show off though

 

I suspect that the reason this is feasible on the iPhone and not Winmo platform lies in the 3d acceleration. Different Winmo phones use different chips for this, and have varying capability. This makes it very hard to account for when coding, and is part of the reason why there is a dearth of 3d games for winmo - even though many current handsets could handle them. In constrast, there is only one (or maybe two) iPhone chipset(s).

 

there is only one iPhone/iPod Touch hardware setup. the only rumour is that the 2gen iPod Touch have a little faster ARM processor, which doesn't give any gameplay advantage at all.

 

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It's a good news, we won't worry about the compatible any more.