Ballmer: Silverlight 'certainly doesn't run on the iPhone!'

Walt: Does Silverlight run on Android or the iPhone?

Steve: It certainly doesn't run on the iPhone! My guess is if it did it would be blocked! That's just my guess!

Read more of what Ballmer had to say in our D8 liveblog.

[Yavin1 Posted Jun 3rd 2010 3:33PM]

@Jack

Agreed.

[Greg7388 Posted Jun 3rd 2010 3:46PM]

He also mentions that they haven't tried.

If they could succeed, making mobile content via Silverlight easy on the battery, and bug free, Apple would implement it.

Then, they'd have that hand up on Flash that they need.

For an evil empire, they certainly aren't doing much good for themselves.

[FitFan Posted Jun 3rd 2010 8:06PM]

@Greg7388

"For an evil empire, they certainly aren't doing much good for themselves"

I assume you're referring to Apple.

[Greg7388 Posted Jun 3rd 2010 9:05PM]

@FitFan Nah, they're doing well for themselves.

[Turbojugend Posted Jun 3rd 2010 4:26PM]

Why does it matter if it runs on an Iphone, nobody is going to buy an Iphone, at $599 with a contract.

[insky Posted Jun 3rd 2010 8:11PM]

@Turbojugend
And nobody did.

[dish Posted Jun 3rd 2010 5:43PM]

Why is Steve Ballmer always such an ass? They need to get rid of him if Microsoft is going to stand a chance against Apple.

[Ioannis Posted Jun 3rd 2010 6:33PM]

I'm sure you could make Moonlight(Mono) run on both of these platforms, right? It's not feature complete though.

[adzcom Posted Jun 3rd 2010 7:08PM]

What would happen when you put the PC and MAC together is you would probably be looking at a MAC ad! When you put the two Steves together you might get a blue screen!

[01 Posted Jun 3rd 2010 7:31PM]

@hated one Well, I agree that a massive percentage of the world's population doesn't care about Silverlight, but then again, a massive percentage of the world's population doesn't care about the iPhone either. Amazingly, some people have more important things to worry about.

[Johnny Rockets Posted Jun 3rd 2010 9:46PM]

Hahaha, he's right; if Microsoft came out with Silverlight on iPhone, we'd quickly see a "Thoughts on Silverlight" article.

[exNewt Posted Jun 4th 2010 4:55AM]

Steve - how's that Market Cap doing?