MS taking a page out of Apple's book

[pokerfan]

Microsoft to Forbid VoIP, Rival Stores at Mobile Market

Microsoft is offering developers a list of 12 types of applications that will be prohibited in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile store.

Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 06:10 PM PDT

Voice-over-IP applications will be forbidden from Microsoft's Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store, along with programs that are larger than 10MB or that change the default browser on a device.

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Also forbidden are programs that allow people to shop at competing application stores, or that change a phone's default browser, search client or media player. Developers will also be unable to build programs that change the default phone dialer, short message service or multimedia messaging service interface. That could help ensure that standards for services like MMS are upheld.

http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,164416/printable.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. How is this evil Microsoft behavior ANYTHING like Apple???

Apple is the champion of Open Source software, doesn't force you to use their browser, they're generations ahead of MS and accelerating, while MS just gets worse and worse.

[pokerfan]

2. Apple's little war against third party iphone developers for starters n/t

[NYC_SKP]

3. I don't understand. Can't anyone develop an app?

I know you have to pay a small sum to become a developer, but I don't see what is so wrong with that.

Any "third party" could develop and app and add it to the App Store, that doesn't seem so evil to me.

[pokerfan]

4. No, they can't

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8748076

Further, Apple wants iPhone owners who decrypt and modify their device’s firmware http://www.iphonebuzz.com/apple-iphone-jailbreaking-breaks-the-law-voids-warranty-136182.php">prosecuted under the DMCA.

[ghostsofgiants]

5. You don't see what is so wrong about having to pay Apple to make their product better?