Microsoft signs up for Iphone App Store
VOLISH BOFFINS have emerged from their smoke-filled labs to produce an application for the rival Iphone.
The application was added to Apple's App Store even before it was shoved on Microsoft's own mobile platform.
The software, dubbed Seadragon Mobile is a free image-browsing app which means punters can deep zoom images while they are online.
It is supposed to show what is possible with a mobile platform and it does it quite well, except that it is for the wrong mobile platform as far as Microsoft is concerned.
Seadragon is part of Microsoft's Photosynth, which is the beast that stitches snaps together to make a 3D environment.
According to CNET, Vole has other Iphone apps in the works including a voice-activated search for the Iphone and Blackberry.
Vole has sheepishly admitted that the reason that there is no Windows Mobile version of Seadragon is because most smartphones don't have the accelerated graphics to run the software.
The Apple handset does and that makes it easy for Vole to create something that has been previously difficult. µ
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1st post!
Go Apple!
i remember watching a video once about seadragon/photosynth
a quick search reveals:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Seadragon-Photosynth-demo-from-TED
"most smartphones don't have the accelerated graphics to run the software."
Its worth a mention here that, it is well known that HTC had failed to include a driver in its handsets to use the graphics acceleration functions, as a result, all HTC made windows smartphones (and most smartphones in general due to HTC being the biggest maker of Windows smartphones) can't use accelerated graphics fuctions of the same level of the iPhone.
i do not know if this is still the case with the TouchFlow 3D based windows smartphones.