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Originally Posted by p-slim
Nobody is looking at it from Microsoft's point of view. Microsoft is a business and a business that's around to make $. IPhone number 1 selling phone ever. Android most rapidly growing OS, Microsoft wants a piece of the action. Yeah they will lose a lot of ppcgeeks due to open source but they will win back a lot of customers that will take advantage of windows mobile 7 and windows desktop 7 plus zune music integration. If you walk into a mall and you stop 30 people, more then likely none of them or maybe one will have a winmo phone, everbody else will have a blackberry, iphone, android, or regular phone, windows wants a piece of that, is that so bad. This is a good direction for them. Once they get backing from developers then I will come back, but that probably wont be for awhile. There will always be a way to get an app to work on your phone. For instance they tried to block wifi tethering, all you have to do is root and you have wifi tethering.
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Microsoft is looking at the carriers. They are not caring about the end user at all here. The iPhone has all of these limitations, but everyone who owns an iPhone hates the restrictions.
Microsoft has tethering built into winmo. The carriers always remove it, and we add it back. What Microsoft is doing here is giving the carriers a reason to make a winmo device the one they market non stop and try to push. If they lock it down so customers can't tether, the carriers can then sell tethering. If they lock it down so you can only install apps from the app store, carriers can then get their own app stores and get a piece of the pie when someone buys an app.
So microsoft is marketing this to carriers, not end users. They are leaving the end user marketing up to the carriers. And if this is true, I will not be a part of it.