NEW DELHI: Microsoft has made its entry in the iPhone application market with the launch of its Seadragon Mobile image browsing software.
But alas, the company's first product for iPhone has shipped broken. In a blog a company employee informed, "The 'Browse Photosynth' functionality broke right after we submitted the app to the AppStore. Hopefully we'll get a new version with this fixed submitted to Apple in the next few days. Photosynth search and adding a user to view their Synths still works. Sorry!"
As for what the application can do: The app enables users to navigate through large images, or image collections, using the Apple iPhone's touch-screen interface.
"Want to see giga-pixel images on your iPhone? Now you can--with Seadragon mobile," wrote a company employee on Microsoft's Live Labs site, in a blog post. "Seadragon Mobile brings the same smooth image browsing you get on the PC to the mobile platform," the blogger claims.
Incidentally, so far Microsoft had held back from introducing apps for iPhone, preferring instead to focus on its own Windows Mobile platform.
So, little doubt that the software giant has left even its own employees wondering why the company did not first release Seadragon Mobile for Windows Mobile.
As Steve Clayton, a Microsoft technology manager who works on software and services projects wrote in his blog post, "It's terrific to see this innovation coming out but I have to ask myself where is the Windows Mobile version?" "Surely phones like the touch HD from HTC would benefit from this too?" wrote Clayton.
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