Do you know when to build a WP app over an iPhone app?
Updated by Brady Stroud [SSW] 6 months ago. See history
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1. ~~If your app is built on Silverlight today.~~ Stop building things on Silverlight today.
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- Reasons are:
- Time to market
- Lower cost
- Reuse MVVM
- Reuse Silverlight controls
- Reuse the Business and Data layer
- The Biggest thing going for windows phone is:
- .NET dev shops
- Environment more productive than xcode
Note: WP7 is built on Silverlight 3 (not Silverlight 4) Note: WP7 was built by a 'web team' not "Rich client app team', so some issues exist:- Bing map control relies on host page (authentication)
- Avoid using System.Windows.Browser.dll in your Silverlight App (as it works only OOB on desktop) and you will have to use a different control on Windows Phone 7
- Others reasons are:
- You can deploy your app without going through the appstore/market place. E.g. my SSW business app
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