http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/ Engadget Comments for iPhone app scoops best software prize on Microsoft campus http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/
Oh, that's right. 99% of smartphones users don't give a damn about multi-tasking. They just need a smartphone that works without crashing constantly. Oh well, 14 apps to 1 wasn't very fair. They would have needed at least 16 more WinMo apps to make it an even contest.

Developers, developers, developers! Just wait, Microsoft. Apple's closed mobile ecosystem will be finished in a month's time, then it will be your time to shine.]]>Sep 1st 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/
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Can I have it? Only I'm still waiting for mine over 2-months now since it allegedly was released.]]>Sep 1st 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/"Yes, but that wouldn't happen would it? Apple are more proprietary than Microsoft."

Talk about being ignorant Sam. Big fail on your comment.
Several of Apple's core technologies are based on open source:

http://www.apple.com/opensource/
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html]]>Sep 1st 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/
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Jubei's original account after I reported many of his posts for trolling.

http://www.engadget.com/profile/3164146/

His new account...

Poor Jubei. You're on your way to another ban.

This is a message to anyone who may read Jubei's posts- downrank and report. Easy as that- he'll eventually get whats coming to him.]]>Sep 2nd 2009 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/

The jock here is that MS provides hardware and software for the winner and they cannot use either since you cannot develop iPhone apps on non Apple computers and without the Apple SDK. ( no hackintosh comments pls )]]>Sep 1st 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/
@Perspective

You have none.]]>Sep 1st 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/And it definitely helps with the schmooze if you like...remember people's names and some vague details about their life.
Should definitely have a field for kids'/spouse's names or something so you can throw in "How's Mary and Bobby doing? What grade is he in now, 2nd?" lol]]>Sep 2nd 2009 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/
Moves like this are what garner mindshare in people (i.e. devs) that can help MS further their platform.

Despite the result on the surface i think long term MS will be the one who gets the most out of it. ]]>Sep 1st 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/08/31/startup-weekends-award-winners-search-kick-and-learn-that-name/

Learn that Name won the Audience favorite App but not any actual prize.. A Contextual Search startup called Saractually won the BizSpark prize of 5000$ of seed money.]]>Sep 1st 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Who's to say that the Pre app wasn't made first? Then, after realizing that no one in their right mind would care for such a piece of crap app, they said - " Hey, fanbois eat up all kinda crap from the apple store, lets write it for that." ]]>Sep 1st 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/
Try reading that again(pay really close attention to the 4th word)]]>Sep 1st 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/
Though I'm not sure that statement was at all directed towards the Zune HD]]>Sep 1st 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/
How is it innovative? Its a touch screen media player which has pretty much the exact same form factor/features as another 3 year old product that is often imitated. It going to have a similar app store, the UI is certainly similar. There are some differences in all these devices, but ultimately they're "me too."

It might be excellent, cool, refined and all that, but its evolutionary not innovative.

I kinda wish they tried harder to come up with something cool that was a little more different.

Sigh....

]]>Sep 1st 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/this is not a very fair coverage of what happened.]]>Sep 1st 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/
Kid]]>Sep 8th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Regards,
~DD]]>Sep 1st 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/Sep 1st 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/iphone-app-scoops-best-software-prize-on-microsoft-campus/http://www.mapmydate.com/ (the team I was on).]]>Sep 1st 2009 12:24PM