What if the Silverlight development environment could target an Apple-developed and controlled runtime?
Apple would retain control, but gain access to an additional developer base as well as a Flash competitor with Apple platform control.
I'm not speaking for the credibility of the Register here. (I wish they'd die as much as Adobe would.) However, technically speaking, this is quite possible. It's also an interesting idea.
Add in a free SWF to Silverlight cross-compiler, and you have a very strong move against Adobe.
There is no such thing as an SL development environment, SL is a runtime and VS and Expression are the primary development environments. Semantics aside though, I just dont see it. Developing an SL runtime is not an easy task, it would take a large team at the very least a year to put one together. I could buy a situation where MSFT hands over the SL runtime source to Apple who then takes it over as part of some long term agreement to guarantee SL apps run on all Apple devices but that is about it.
There is no such thing as an SL development environment, SL is a runtime and VS and Expression are the primary development environments.
Sorry, should've used a plural.
Developing an SL runtime is not an easy task, it would take a large team at the very least a year to put one together.
Not true if there's cooperation from the MS development team. There would be compelling reasons for such cooperation. Flash is Silverlight's incumbent competition, after all.
What if the Silverlight development environment could target an Apple-developed and controlled runtime?
Apple would retain control, but gain access to an additional developer base as well as a Flash competitor with Apple platform control.
I'm not speaking for the credibility of the Register here. (I wish they'd die as much as Adobe would.) However, technically speaking, this is quite possible. It's also an interesting idea.
Add in a free SWF to Silverlight cross-compiler, and you have a very strong move against Adobe.