Microsoft pushes hard to grab third place with smartphone developers

HP’s shakedown of WebOS, and the potential disaster of Google/Motorola shows that nothing stays still in the mobile market. Given the focus on apps, making sure you have the developer mindshare is supremely important. it’;s one of the things WebOS nearly got right.

Anyway, in a world where Apple is the defacto chocie, and Android is the “better have the other side of the coin” arguably there is just one more space in the brain. The question now is if this will be Windows Phone, RIM, Bada, Series 40, Meego, or something else. Microsoft really want it to be them, and it’s no surprise they’re making a public bid to WebOS developers to get them hardware and tools at minimal cost.

Any Published WebOS Devs: We’ll give you what you need to be successful on #WindowsPhone, incl.free phones, dev tools, and training, etc.,
@BrandonWatson

Fat, reactive, and exactly the reaction every company should have made (and that includes Nokia, who’ll get the benefit of these new apps, but not the name recognition). Microsoft, in it to win it.

Unlike HP.