What has Microsoft done for decades? There has never been any sort of licensing or "Microsoft seal of approval" required for DOS, Windows, or Windows Mobile apps. Software developers have always been free to distribute apps for any of these platforms under any terms and through any channels they choose, and users of these platforms have always been free to install any apps they want from any vendor.
The only exception would be any Windows Mobile phones that have been app locked by the phone carriers. I don't know which carriers, if any, do this, but my Verizon Pantech PN-820 is not app locked. I don't think Verizon currently app locks any of their WM phones. -Mike > From: Andy Fuchs > > I don't think so... The reason is, they want to know the > *apps* - not the companies... And my guess is, that there > will be a couple of restrictions of what the apps are allowed to do. > > That's nothing new: Microsoft does that since decades (and > nobody really complained), so Apple just took over this > (successful) model... Or - better > - they (Apple) are now in a position which allows them to > dictate the usage of their device. That's good for the one, > and not so good for the others ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
