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That device is a FANTASTIC GAMING PLATFORM!]]>Oct 8th 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
Without a controller ?]]>Oct 8th 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/

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Motorola haven't abandoned WinMo. Please find me the evidence of that. They are currently working with the WinMo 7 beta that manufacturers already have.

I can bet you that HTC have probably being doing most of their WinMo7 work with pre-production HD2 models. HTC's flagship models are always WinMo - this counters you silly statement.

Palm is not doing so great so they drop WinMo in the business sector and concentrate on WebOS in the consumer sector where they are still not doing so hot.

Most of these OEMs can see the advantage of selling both WinMo and Android platforms as chip now a days are developed with both in mind - trust me I know. Look at HTC, most of their hardware platforms are similar across winmo and android. It not that hard to tweak a new design and churn out a different phone now that Sense UI is on both.

With all the said there is still - Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Acer, Toshiba and others that are still keep winmo alive and well.]]>Oct 9th 2009 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
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http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/08/j-d-power-iphone-is-no-1-again/?source=yahoo_quote




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That said, I am a Windows Mobile 6.5 user, and guess what, my smartphone cost less than your dumbphone, off contract, on eBay. And I've had MMS from the start, along with copy and paste, and video recording. And I can even use skype, google voice, etc. :O

It's about time we had a centralized marketplace, and I can't wait for some good apps to surface. Nothing really worth buying yet, but its only a few days old.]]>Oct 9th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
There has never been a DRM system that hasn't been cracked. There has never been an anti-piracy method that has worked. Most of them just treat your paying customers like criminals and drives more of them to do criminal things. My favorite WinMo GPS software requires that I use their memory card instead of the bulky 16gb monster I have.

That said, realizing people will pirate your product isn't a reason not to develop. Rather, it's a reason to look at WHY they're going to the trouble of pirating, and how you can compete with that. Smarter business decisions lead to companies that can thrive against piracy, not just complain about it.]]>Oct 9th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
If I can see it, then I can do it
If I just believe it, there's nothing to it
I believe 7 can fly
I believe its touch UI would be the sky
I think about it every night and day
Flex my fingers and tap away
I believe I can roam
I see me running with a Touch Pro
I believe it can fly
Don't give it the evil eye
I believe Apple will cry]]>Oct 8th 2009 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/or wait, don't WM apps not need any authentication of any sort anyway?]]>Oct 8th 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
THERE ARE MORE WINDOWS MOBILE PHONE USERS THAN iPHONE. Some 43million of us, or so. Go read Gartner, or just look beyond US borders.]]>Oct 9th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
With the iphone, even the first gen iphones from 2yrs ago can run the newest iphone OS 3.x.

All of us iphone users are just laughing at you peasants with WinMo phones as you realize how pathetically obsolete your phone is each time the OS is updated. Yeah, I said "you peasants." You're the ones I spit on, holding your sign that says "WILL WORK FOR MONEY TO UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 7 IF I CAN JUST FIGURE OUT WHICH VERSION TO UPGRADE TO" as I whip on in to Starbucks for my Carmel Machiatto and surf free AT&T Wifi on my iphone.
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"Hey Starbucks barista, Where's my Machiatto?"]]>Oct 8th 2009 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
I'm not a WinMo user BUT I hate ignorant morons like you! So i'm gonna make a stand for all the people out there.
First, yes you can upgrade and second this...
Peasants huh? Who's the peasant goin out to buy a new icrap product each year? Mindlessly spending money on the hundreds of crappy accessories, as Jobs slaps you on your ass, pay that premium! Its outrageous when apple claims they've made their products greener, when all those products have done is create bigger landfills and layers of gasses to the f*cking atmosphere, from the crappy batteries they claim are awesome, news flash they're the same piece of shit burning out your icrap! All that radiation is goin to your head you cant think straight lol... http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?query=iphone&provider_id=&brand. Yeah spend that $100 a month on that icrap phone plan. And you can just easily break the DRM for any device, anyone can easily get all the apps for free on iphone dah!
YOU ARE THE ONE holding the WILL SUCK YOUR DICK FOR MONEY sign! Yeah so go "whip" on to that starbucks pretend like your doing something really important on that icrap, you fake, shallow piece of shit!]]>Oct 8th 2009 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
(2 minutes later)

Wait a second, it does not record video! What good is running the newest version of the OS if it does not enable features of the phone I own today? My 1st gen iPhone has a camera, why doesn't it let me use it to record video like the newer 3GS. I am starting to think that maybe you lied to me!]]>Oct 8th 2009 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
XDA-Developers lol! and you're actually proposing that as a viable solution to an App Store? XDA is the largest bastion of WinMo nerd-dom in the world. Customers and the market in general seriously do not care for having to dive through the landfill of forums, menus and sub-menus to find what they want; only nerds do that. But at the same time, the more successful XDA is then the bigger the barrier for a WinMo App Store to succeed, thus destroying any viable means for developers to make money in the platform. Users just go get what they want for free instead of choosing to shop in the App Store. Ultimately that discourages devs from producing in the platform and migrating to alternative platforms (Apple App Store, Pre App Store) that reward the production of high quality apps with customers willing to pay for them. Same story goes with crappy DRM on this WinMo App Store.]]>Oct 8th 2009 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 9th 2009 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
Dude you are talking such nerd talk it is pathetic. Please ask your mom to pop some of your whiteheads for you next time you wander up from the basement OK?]]>Oct 9th 2009 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
This is a tech-blog you dumb ass. You want a blog where stupidity and Machiatto's roam free, go here: http://starbucksgossip.typepad.com/"

How's that "Apple created multitouch" argument working out for you?]]>Oct 9th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 9th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/Oct 8th 2009 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/dev-finds-windows-marketplace-drm-severely-lacking-easily-circu/
After all, every MS fanboy out there severely chastised Apple because they claimed their App Store was a "closed" system. Look at the WinMo App Store, it's as wide open as anything could be!! Anyone can buy an app and enjoy the freedom without walls to give it away to 20 of their friends. I mean, who really wants a "closed" ecosystem where developers enjoy a safe distribution environment that prevents piracy and rewards merit, thus allowing massive app sales at low cost? Leave that for iTunes. The MS fanboys will stick to WinMo and its Pirates of the Caribbean app "store."]]>Oct 8th 2009 9:44PM