from the Office Mobility Blog...
Microsoft Office mobility on the world's most popular smartphones
Earlier today CEO of DataViz, Inc., Dick Fontana, appeared on Fox
Business Network to share his thoughts about the recently announced
iPhone software development kit (SDK) and developing applications
(such as the popular Microsoft Office suite, Documents To Go) for this
platform.
With many other mobile device platforms, such as Palm and Windows
Mobile, a software company like DataViz is free to develop at will as
the software can be marketed through a variety of channels. Based on
yesterday's announcement from Apple, it seems things may be a bit
different for the iPhone:
"The fact that there's one path bringing software to the device means
that we have to go to the keepers of that path..."
While some may consider this a negative, DataViz has a long
relationship with Apple which gives Dick reason to be optimistic about
the opportunities for DataViz with the iPhone:
"We were one of the first developers for the Macintosh in 1984 and
they [Apple] have always proven to be good business partners... We
have every reason to believe that the path will be open for us."
You can see all of Dick's comments at the DataViz Channel on YouTube.
We are currently investigating the opportunity to develop Documents To
Go, RoadSync, Passwords Plus and any of our other software titles for
the iPhone and would appreciate your feedback.
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