● 11.28.10
●● Microsoft’s Vista Phony 7 Jailbroken, Developer Upset
Posted in Microsoft at 12:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Another case of Vista Phony 7 [sic] failure and why the lack of applications for the platform is a permanent condition
IT HAS PROVEN hard to sell Vista Phony 7 [sic], which is well behind the competition and has serious security problems. It does not even run many applications because developers realise that developing for it (even with Microsoft incentives) is a total waste of time.
FurnaceBoy says that an “App developer finds out that Windows Mobile can be jailbroken, throws a fit”:
Today (well, yesterday now) was Thanksgiving here in the U.S. In addition to doing my traditional family things (making and eating a large, Turkey-centered dinner), I found some time to pop on to the computer. To my dismay I saw that the #WP7 hashtag on Twitter was filled with news of a program/project called “ChevronWP7” (which presumably has no connection to the U.S. petroleum products company, Chevron Corp. – which has a market cap of $166 billion dollars and whose trademark lawyers may well decide to bury the people behind “ChevronWP7” in lawsuits, something I’d personally be delighted to hear).“ChevronWP7” is a “jail-breaking” thing (it apparently involves running some code and possibly visiting a website, mucking in your registry and I don’t even know what else… hence calling it a “thing”). The developers of it protest that their motives are noble and have put up a webpage condemning anyone pirating apps and claiming that it can’t be used to pirate anything anyway. They note that they, too, are app developers and just want to help people load things onto their phones that would never pass marketplace certification and are just exploring the hardware blah blah… .
Claudio notes: “The comments are littered with MS astroturfers. Quite funny reading their comments.” Well, that’s what marketing budgets of around half a billion dollars can achieve. █
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