Brandon Watson, to become Amazon Kindle Cross Platform Team director.
Windows Phone’s head of developer experiences, Brandon Watson is going to be Director of the Kindle Cross Platform team. As part of the Amazon Kindle team, apparently he’ll be working on the product development roadmap for Kindle apps in first and third party platforms. This includes Windows Phone apps and the Windows 8 app.
Zdnet updates their post with a corporate spokesperson:
We can confirm February 6th is Brandon Watson’s last day at Microsoft. Brandon did a great job helping us build a vibrant developer community and we wish him well with his next adventure.
On twitter @BrandonWatson’s Bio still says “I am responsible for apps/developers on Windows Phone” up until the February 6th change I guess.
He also confirms this on his twitter.
The rumors are true. The team is in great hands. I’ll miss working on
#wpdev. I will the community, but won’t be a stranger
Who’s taking over from Watson?
Source: Zdnet
Via @Garsim @chilko
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isnt kindle fire using android?
Yes. I did think it odd that the guy enticing Android folks to WP will now work for the company who’s main device product is Android powered. But he’s also going to be doing WP and W8 related work there apparently.
That man needs to make a Kindle app on Symbian his first priority. In fact I’ll go on Twitter now to tell him that. You can’t ignore the world’s biggest smartphone platform by far and keep on getting away with it.
And by the way, there’s 155 million Qt-compatible Symbian devices they could target just for starters – an ebook reader (which is all Kindle is) does not have to have a touchscreen to work just fine. In fact, most standalone Kindles to date don’t have.
hmmm. im not sure how many of them can run qt apps with great satisfaction thou. my cousins c6-03 certainly f%iled to impress. but yeah kindle, evernote, medscape on my n8 please!!!
Thats great news for microsoft ecosystem . Lets hope that watson ” stephen elop ” amazon
Trojan Horse! Obammmaaaaa!
People from Microsoft are like viruses. I think he will be pushing Amazon into Microsoft hands. I don’t believe that something good would be created by this guy.