Microsoft entices developers webOS-free phones

Microsoft is going to take setbacks in the promotion of its HP platform webOS and is ready to offer frustrated developers free phones , tools and training - anything to attract them to your team.

Just a day later after HP announced the discontinuance of mobile devices based on webOS, Brandon Watson (Brandon Watson), the main developer of Microsoft, has decided not to miss an opportunity to publicly and offered cooperation with webOS-developers. In my microblog on Twitter, he wrote:

"I appeal to all the WebOS-developers: we'll give you everything you need to successfully work with WindowsPhone - Free phones, the tools, training and so forth."

All who are interested in the proposal, received by e-mail instructions on how to become a member of the team Windows Phone. But most of all, Microsoft is unlikely to get hold of a large team of professionals, as it is the lack of interest from developers to the platform webOS caused her death. At the time of the tablet TouchPad last month there were only 6200 applications for webOS, of which 300 - optimized for Palm (for comparison - the beginning of July on the App Store had about 425,000 iOS - applications).

Last Thursday, HP announced an important decision - the company changes its course of development and is going to go feet IBM, focusing on software and services. The manufacturer has admitted that his business did not bring the Tablet success, and sales of devices based on webOS were below expectations. Now the world's largest PC maker has been studying strategic options for further development of its computer business - it can be separated into a separate company or sold to interested buyers. According to recent reports, the sale of tablets have been so sluggish TouchPad that the retailer Best Buy stores remained unsold for almost 90% all stocks. The company had to pay a premium of $ 100 million to write off unsold stocks TouchPad.

For its part, Microsoft intends to make its mobile platform, Windows Phone 7 competitive alternative to Apple iOS and Google Android. The software giant is preparing to release this fall a major software upgrade. By Nokia, which has renounced its own Symbian platform in favor of Windows Phone 7 start selling its first device based on WP7 also this year.

The head of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (Steve Ballmer) last month, acknowledged that sales of machines with Windows Phone 7 have been low, but promised that the situation will change and everyone will see "big progress in the mobile phone market as they [Microsoft] forward."

By the end, Apple may release a totally dissimilar to anything Mac

Given the growing interest in mobile devices and numerous predictions about the transition from a traditional PC users on a variety of mobile devices, Apple could make a new generation of Mac notebooks is completely different from all today were not created devices.

Citing an anonymous source from among the Asian partners of Apple, a site with a very controversial reputation macotakara.jp writes that Apple has with its vendors to release a new Mac, which would "completely different from existing products today." In a short note (no specific details) indicated that the design of the new Mac so different from the normal characteristics of the design of laptops Apple, which could provide new laptop computers into a single brand, or even in a single product name.

It seems that the latest rumors emerged after reports that Apple plans to make its high-tech MacBook Pro notebooks like the individual characteristics for ultra-thin and ultra-light MacBook Air, replacing the traditional hard disk drive solid state drives, and just removing the optical drive.

With respect to the site macotakara.jp can say that his forecasts of reliability have been very different. Pretty sure its authors were able to guess what Apple will release a second generation iPad in March this year, and the release of the iPhone 5 happens much later in the year. But predictions about the new MacBook Air laptops with flash memory 400MBps, and the iPad 2 plates with a flat rear surface as a result did not materialize.

Recently, many Japanese publications abound with information and assumptions about the actions Apple - among them a version that the back cover of the iPhone 5 will be aluminum, as well as information about what the company is currently testing the MacBook Air, equipped with chips A5, as in tablets iPad 2.