“Today’s consumers are very clear in what they want: easy access to tightly integrated services and data on any device,” said Lee Williams, Senior Vice President in Nokia’s Devices software organization. “Nokia’s software strategy is based on cross-platform development environments, enabling the creation of rich applications across the Nokia device range. Nokia aims to support market leading and content rich internet application environments and to embrace and encourage open innovation. By working with Microsoft, we are creating terrific opportunities and additional choices for the development community, S60 licensees and the industry as a whole.” - Nokia press release
I don’t understand how Nokia really aims to embrace open innovation by adding Silverlight. We had already discussed MS openness in innovation and standards.
Without wide adoption of Silverlight throughout the Web there will be not much useful content for mobile users. In my opinion content is what we are really missing for our mobile phones and not fancy interfaces with heavy animation. That would simply put more pressure on your phones resources, drain your battery and drain your wallet by streaming loads of useless bits.
I really don’t see the reason to install it on my N95…
