"As it is platform agnostic, Microsoft can…" Sorry…what??? When did that happen? I’m guessing this is one of those subject/object quirks of the English language, otherwise I’ve just blacked out and missed an eventful few years.
Update: It seems I need to be more clear. I’m not critical of MS for having a platform bias. As a platform company, that sounds like a perfectly reasonable position to take. I’m just staggered that a journo could seriously suggest they’re not.
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Uh… you do know you said that out loud, right?
Sure. What am I missing?
I guess Alex Williams knows something we don’t (or ingests something we don’t).
It is hard to say what the author meant by platform agnostic. Is the iPhone platform agnostic? Or is it Exchange? Or is it Microsoft? Or what?
All I can say is that we (developers) should all be platform agnostic.
Hi Malcolm
The “it” refers to the subject of the previous sentence: the iPhone.
You gotta love the English language 🙂
Hi David, yes, that’s what I suspected. However in his comments he suggests he meant that MS was platform agnostic when it comes to mobile OS, which is much less of a stretch. Cheers, Malcolm