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09/20/09
09/19/09
Although it is a fairly simple game, there is quite a lot going on behind the scenes and also quite a bit that we don't show in the video. The fact that we wrote in C# made it possible to port in a short space of time but we also had to design for that up front. Even with forethought we still had quite a bit of work to do to make it happen although if we do this again it will be quite simple. It was certainly quite a bit more complicated than "fixing up mismatches in the .Net assemblies".
The main point we wanted to get across is to the developer community. That, given the right choice of tools and some up-front planning, it is possible to make apps for at least the iPhone and Zune HD without a lot of additional porting costs.
We talk a little bit more about the port here:
http://zunerama.com/forum/index.php?topic=14559.0
Yes, the screen on the Zune HD is great, oh if only it were bigger :)
09/19/09
Zune development is in .Net as well.
That means most of the work is really just fixing up any mismatches in the .Net assemblies.
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Now shoo, don't you have 75,000 amazing apps to play with or something?
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(Wait how did I approve this comment? O_O)
09/19/09
If you are familiar with the direction Microsoft is clearly taking their platforms, you'd see they are going platform INTEGRATION.
Why the hell do you think they've been moving towards single sign on for Zune, XBL, Hotmail, etc for years?
To think Microsoft would have three entirely independent Marketplace environments is daft.
09/03/09
09/03/09
Honestly, I would buy a Zune HD in a heartbeat if they had Mac support.
09/03/09
Sure Mac OS only represents 10% of the computer world, but Microsoft should just have a R+D Mac/Zune team of ten people to port it over to us.
I'd buy one on day one, thanks to the generosity that Microsoft gives certain retail employees. (look up ExpertZone)
09/03/09
Then I started thinking that maybe we won't be getting Zune on the Mac due to the DRM using .wmv files... Not sure how much is going on under the hood there. Perhaps it wouldn't be so easy to use a Zune Pass on something other than Microsoft's OS? The earlier PlaysForSure software (Rhapsody, Napster, et. al.) never had a Mac version...
Sure they could probably do it if they really wanted to, just saying that perhaps this is a barrier to that becoming reality. I'd jump on it in a heartbeat if it did, though...
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Lest we all forget that they pared down the Zune team less than a year ago... I'm sure they definitely don't have any bodies to throw at porting it, let alone 10!
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What I am not clear on is what the difference is between Facebook for Xbox from standard Facebook? Is this just a way of avoiding putting a web browser on the Xbox, or is there some advantage to applications like that?
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It would be like me whining every time I see an ad for tube socks. Sure, I hate tube socks. So I don't wear them. And I let those who enjoy them continue to do so, keeping my destructive elitist attitude to myself.
Clearly, many do use it. Clearly, many do enjoy it. Is it wrong for MS to OFFER a product simply because some people don't want it?
06/01/09
"I Want To Bang Stephanie Tanner" and "I Want To Bang Blossom".
As you can see, Marc Zuckerberg has much to be proud of.
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I'm just trying to understand. You don't like Facebook, and I get that...no problem there, your prerogative. I'm not saying it's great, or that it's good for humanity in any way. There's a lot of crap on there. Most of it being pushed to you by people on your own friends list, but that's not the point.
The point is, no one is forcing you into it. Why should it be obliterated when it is obviously so widely used? All that would serve is to take enjoyment away from those who do use it, while not improving the lives of non-users in any way whatsoever. No one wins by removing it, save for the false validation it would give to the elitist 'I hate everything that's popular group'.
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I just want to know so I can make a decision. I mean, with Blossom, does anyone know if her nose has gotten even bigger over the years? A big nose may take her down a few notches in this contest.
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Here's hoping Microsoft has something exciting to announce that will not be forgotten a few days later when certain un-named companies release their shtuff.