| superchunk said: I don't understand why so many can't understand why Sony and Apple are up in arms about the dev community while MS isn't in regards to its WP7, whereas its just as aggresive on the X360. Software. Sony and Apple both create a lot of software on their hardware that they intend to generate money from. MS doesn't care if people open WP7 as its money is from the licensing of the OS to the hardware makers. Having WP7 open like a barn with no holds on the pirating doesn't affect them at all. Its also not like Windows as you're not going to build your own phone and buy a new OS. The phone itself will only get the natural upgrades that all smartphones get from their OS maker ... (except Samsung's Galaxy S phones...) So yeah MS can seem like the good guy by embracing the dev community (which Google has always done btw... hence open source) even while they are just as anit-open and anti-piracy as everyone else in every other market they are in. This is all BS and the touting of MS in this case is cherrypicking and ignorant. |
There is plenty of BS and bashing of MS. People cherrypick to suit their views and opinions. There is plenty of ignorance to go around.
