Symphonious

Scoble claimed Microsoft was cool because someone else developed an app that ran on it, I pointed out it could have been developed on any OS and then Scoble says:

Ahh, at a higher cost. Which is the whole point of why Windows is used so many places.

Got some figures to back that up?  For someone who doesn’t even know who wrote the software I find it rather surprising that you’ve done a cost benefit analysis of developing that application on different platforms.  Anyone can pull claims out of thin air but you’d have to be crazy to just believe it without figures to back it up.  So Scoble, care to back up that rhetoric?

Scoble thinks that Microsoft is cool because someone wrote a cool application that runs on Windows.  Sigh.  Talk about taking credit for other people’s work.  I’m certain the same application could be created on Linux, Solaris or Mac OS X.  Windows is the boring underlay that just happened to be there, not what makes the application cool.  Maybe Jonathan Schwartz will blog about how the store could have avoided being locked into Windows by writing the application in Java, or RMS might write an open letter about how the application should be opensourced so that the community could improve it and reduce development costs for the store.  None of that will matter in the end though because the RIAA will sue it into obvilion because people are just listening to the music on the in-store computers instead of buying the CDs.

Sigh, I’m not cynical, really…