Are you a webOS developer wondering what your future holds because your platform was recently announced as dead? Microsoft will save the day! The software giant is looking to pick up webOS developers who are looking for a new home and platform by offering whatever “they need to be successful.”
Ars Technica reports:
Microsoft’s Brandon Watson tweeted on Friday that phones, development tools, and training were all on offer to webOS developers looking for a new platform to work on.
If you’re looking for a new mobile platform to work with, and you’re not quite up to jumping on the potentially lucrative, but highly competitive iOS system, Microsoft wants you.
It couldn’t be such a bad place to be, either. When the Windows Phone 7 Mango update hits, along with the Nokia devices that we’ll be seeing along with it, WP7 might get the surge it needs to really fight with Android and iOS. Even a modest adoption of the platform at that time could serve current webOS developers well if they were to switch. It also sounds like Microsoft is doing whatever it can to coddle its developers and make sure they’re successful.
If you were working on apps for webOS and are feeling a little lonely, give Microsoft a call.
[Via: Ars Technica]