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Sendo Can't Get Microsoft Source; Ditches Windows
An anonymous submitter wrote: "Just when you thought the award-winning data leech Microsoft had become invincible... cellphone manufacturer Sendo, in a statement on the front page of its web site, announces the termination of its Z100 smartphone development on the Microsoft platform, licensing the rival Symbian from Nokia instead. (Further reports by ZDnet and Heise.)"
I guess this is the way that vendors can get a change out of Microsoft. If you don't like someones product, take your business somewhere else.
~S
Oh, I'm sure they'll repent to everybody they ever screwed, now that they know what it feels like. NOT! They'll probably just use more Halloween stuff to kill Nokia and Sendo. Anyway, it's nice to see a company slap M$ in the face on their front page. It kinda give me a warm, fuzzy feeling. Or mabe that's just the caffeine.
Karma: Bizzare (mostly affected by varying internal caffeine levels.)
Windows keeps on getting better and better. From it's award-winning design to it's revolutionary kernel architecture, Windows is the best in the biz. Says Internet Guru Dan Hertzfeld, "I rely on Windows and Office for Windows every day to deliver top-notch performance and it has never let me down." Many others praise Windows, too, including Chief Technology Officer Bill Patterson of Ford Motor Company, "Windows allows us to leverage our most valuable assets, people, into a world-class synergy to delight customers all over the globe."
Gentlemen, how about a mirror? Their site appears to be served on a cell modem.
phones. When you are trying to packet send and receive while jumping from cell to cell, you don't want the OS hung while a Window repaints, or an icon flickers on and off. You want an realtime OS tied down to the actual sending/recieving packets and doing the d/a a/d conversion on the speaker and microphone. You want a steady stream of conversation, you don't want the equivalent of an oral hourglass.
This is also why Windowing software is also the wrong paradigm for industrial strength routers. The reason CICSCO certified people make such great money compared to test passsing MCSE monkeys is that the Cisco OS is all commandline/terminal driven, when you're routing a T3, you don't the overhead for pretty graphics.
Sendo Z100 NOT TO LAUNCH
Company Statement
Sendo has terminated its Smartphone development program utilising the Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone 2002 software.
As a result, Sendo regrets to announce that it will not be shipping the Z100 Smartphone.
It has been a very difficult decision for Sendo given its leadership position in the development of smart devices. We are disappointed that we will not be able to ship the Z100 given the high level of interest shown in the device.
Although a set back, we are pleased to announce today that we have licensed the Series 60 platform from Nokia for our smartphone category. We believe this will create the opportunity for us to continue as a lead player in the development of smartphone products for 2003.
SENDO CHOOSES NOKIA'S SERIES 60 PLATFORM FOR ITS SMART PHONES
Thu Nov 7 2002
Sendo, a British mobile phone manufacturer, today announced that the company has decided to license Series 60 Platform from Nokia for its smart phone category. The Series 60 is a software platform for feature- and application rich smart phones that Nokia licenses to mobile handset manufacturers. The platform is optimised to run on top of the Symbian OS. Sendo joins as the newest member to the Series 60 licensing community with Matsushita, Samsung, Siemens and Nokia.
"Earlier this fall we reviewed our smart phone strategy. While our mission of providing customers with feature-rich and ubiquitous devices remains unaltered, seeing that the Series 60 fully embraces both our mission and the new strategy we decided to approach Nokia," said Hugh Brogan, Chief Executive Officer of Sendo Holdings Plc. "The platform utilises open standards and technologies, such as MMS and Java , jointly developed by the industry. The platform is robust, yet uniquely flexible, bringing great benefits to licensees, operators, developers and consumers."
"We welcome Sendo, a pioneer in smart phone development, to join our Series 60 community. We see that a combination of Sendo's technical expertise and growing market presence will bring significant contribution to the mobile market with Series 60 devices. Interoperable solutions that are built on open and common industry standards are proving to be the winning formula in meeting demands of business users and consumers alike," said Niklas Savander, Vice President and General Manager, Nokia Mobile Software.
Nokia licenses Series 60 Platform as a source code. The model enables licensees to contribute to the development of the platform while fully executing their individual business strategy, brand and customer requirements in fast developing and highly competitive mobile communications market. Licensees will be able to include the Series 60 into their own smart phone designs, thus speeding up the rollout of new phone models at lower costs.
The Series 60 is a comprehensive software platform for smart phones, created for mobile phone users that demand easy-to-use, one-hand operated handsets with high-quality colour screens, rich communications and enhanced applications. The Series 60 platform consists of the key telephony and personal information management applications, the browser and messaging clients, as well as a complete and modifiable user interface, all designed to run on top of the Symbian OS, an operating system for advanced, data enabled mobile phones.
It's a reference to the Big Brother aspects of MS.
The first and final nail in MS's coffin.
Who the hell is "Sendo" and why should I care that this company no one has heard of has "stood up" to Microsoft?
I'm not sure where the "can't get source" comment in the title came from. I clicked through to the announcement, read both stories, and even translated the german text, and nothing in there said they terminated the agreement due to inability to get the source.
- "When you want something with all your heart, the entire universe conspires to give it to you" -Paulo Coelho
Sendo ditched MS! Quick, sell all MS you can! Clearly it's about to go bankrupt!
Really, I'd be more worried about Sendo.
Not that I like Microsoft, but this is really non-news. MS does tens of alliances a day, and it's news when one falls through? Geez.
One more thing: If MS really cared about this deal, I bet you they could buy Sendo, stock, lock and barrel. And pay for it in cash.
How about some real news, now?
Sendo junks MS smartphone, joins Nokia camp
:-(
BTW, What happened to theregus.com? It seems to be gone.
Sendo was listed as one of the first SmartPhone (what a misnomer) partners: who else joined? Have they put anything out yet?
but I have to question the business heads of those who cancel a product DAYS BEFORE THE LAUNCH...
;) ) then surely its worth showing your stock holders that you HAVE something for the millions spent on R&D
Sure, it must have been a hard decision, but unless they made some huge fkup working out the per-device costing (did they forget to license windows?
But, as I said at the start of the article... good luck to them
Now, not only have they "wasted" millions, they will probably have the beast on their back
It doesn't say anything directly about Linux.
So the editors would be blithering idiot OSS/Java fanboys.
...would have been nice, before giving Nokia full ownership of Symbian. As the article says the licensed software is optimised to run on Symbian, but it is not Symbian. From the Symbian website: "Symbian was established as a private independent company in June 1998 and is owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Matsushita (Panasonic), Motorola, Psion, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Headquartered in the UK, it has offices in Japan, Sweden, UK and the USA."
Although many will doubtless claim this is insignificant to MS - the fact they're further delayed in getting their own hardware out there will do them serious damage in the mobile device arena. Nokia and other phone manufacturers have a growing army of 3rd party developers writing new software for their devices, which in turn makes them more desirable for anyone who wishes to expand their capabilities. Although the phone manufacturers are making some mistakes (mostly messing about with the J2ME standard classes, and offering little support) the number of apps is increasing very quickly.
;-)
Contrast this with MS, who have no platform, no 3rd party developers (as far as I know), and very little to offer over the established brands. The other mobile makers already have software to sync their devices with Windows/Linux/Mac OS', and they're pretty reliable.
MS is going to have a very very hard battle trying to convince anyone to buy their phones, even moreso than the XBox - which isn't doing well compared to the competition.
This is a good thing
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
None of that was typed by the editor, see here at slashdots if it's in italics it's from the submitter. If you think the editors should reject a submission just because of some fanboyism in the submitters comments then go start your own "unbiased" newsite, see if you get over a half million hits a day.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
It's not that it's command line or terminal driven (directly) as much as there is simply far less people cisco certified than MCSE certified. Simple supply and demand will raise the salaries(price) of the more rare resource.
Many others praise Windows, too, including Chief Technology Officer Bill Patterson of Ford Motor Company, "Windows allows us to leverage our most valuable assets, people, into a world-class synergy to delight customers all over the globe."
<sarcasm>It's no surprise that Ford relies on Microsoft products, because Ford sure knows quality.</sarcasm>
I can't help but wonder how delighted their customers must be, when they have to bring their Focus back into the dealership for yet another safety recall every month or so.
Ford ought to be partnering with Microsoft to put a "Critical Update Notification" feature into next year's model: "...Simply plug a phone line into your Focus every night, and the car will dial into Ford's headquarters and download a list of that day's newly-discovered critical safety flaws that you'll need to have repaired immediately..."
Thankfully, I don't own one of the little beasts, but one of my friends does.
~Philly
Microsoft is trying to hook it's claws into all things digital (including phones, appliances and cars). The fact that their programs are unqualified for such activities is irrelevant to them. This is, fortunately, a setback. Hopefully, a big one.
I was stuck at the Hyatt in downtown Chicago this past weekend and was watching Forbes on Fox. Steve Forbes and his writers and editors were speculating on tech futures when they brought up hopeful Nokia and Motorola sales increases. One of the panel, via satelite, discounted the possible sales increase with the reasoning that Microsoft is entering the cell arena with OEMs rather than traditional cell phone manufacturers and that that would stimey Moto and Nokia. To which one of the enlightenned panel members replied:
I've had to agonize with Microsoft on my computer, I certainly don't want them on my cell phone."
It was an unexpected comment and I couldn't stop chuckling.
put the what in the where?
I gave away my cellphone a couple of weeks ago, because I was waiting for the Smartphone to come out, it has some very nice features. To be honest, the only feature that I was looking forward to, was the one where XBox Live players could invite you to a game and if your XBox is not powered on, you'll receive the invite on your cellphone. I love that. I don't wanna miss out on the fun.
Oh please. I didn't know whether to respond or mod you down on this one. I choose the former.
Of course Stingray (Windows for cellphones) uses an underlying RTOS. I interviewed with that group. We talked about it. All of the fancy UI/Windows stuff is in a low-priority task.
Just like with the Palm OS. The "Palm OS" doesn't actually run the PDA. It runs on top of a small RTOS kernel that handles interrupts, hardware drivers, and other real-time things that have little to do with the UI. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the same Palm OS runs on different RTOS kernels. In fact, I can almost guarantee you that the Qualcomm Palm thingy they had a few years ago likely did not use the same RTOS kernel as my Palm Vx.
And you comment about Cisco Certified Internet Engineers and Command-line interfaces is a joke, right? A CCIE doesn't make more money because he or she can use a terminal instead of dragging icons. They make more money because internetworking is more of a niche and is arguably more complex than setting up Windows. It also costs much more to become CCIE than MCSE. Trust me, Cisco's next generation routers will be configured remotely through a graphical interface. I guess when that happens, CCIE's will be making just as much as a MCSE, huh?
Yes the article states that they are ditching MS, but other than stating the openness of Symbian source code, there doesn't seem to be any specific reference stating that Sendo ditches Windows because it "can't get Microsoft source".
The more companies that gets used to have access to the source code and being able to make modifications the better. Once you are familiar with the concept its much easier to uncerstand why Gnu/linux works and what benefits it can bring. Also its much harder to fool someone with things like Shared Source if they are knowledged in GPL etc. and can see the really big differences between licenses.
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> Are the editors not even trying to appear like normal, rational human beings rather than blithering idiot linux fanboys?
Are posters not even trying to appear like they read the links and not even considering that the text they're bitching about wasn't written by the editors?
PS. Data leech is somebody who takes data from somewhere without volountarily repaying in kind. People believe they are far more individualist than they truely are; the better companies get at matching our perceived 'wants', the more likely we are to change in a manner that befits the company. In other words, when companies get access to what kinds of marketing/communication/interests influence your decision making process, your power of free choice is sacrificed. In the extreme, this would be companies finding out what things are important to you, and using those things as ways of manipulating you. Advertising becomes _very_ effective when the advertiser knows what your weaknesses are.
"Old man yells at systemd"
The paradigm of GNU/Linux is one of throwing off the shackles of oppressive, business-savvy regimes.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see GNU/Linux installed on every computer in the world, at gunpoint if necessary.
So, to get rid of oppressive regimes we should shoot people for not using Linux?
Book description of "Programming for the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS" here
For some reason, I'm beginning to think that this could signify a slow paradigm-shift in certain tech-savvy industries.
I worked for a telecommunications company that had started using NT 3.51/4.0 for embedded system work, because we were using off-the-shelf industrial servers, and at the time, Microsoft' Systems Architect for NT was gearing things toward being fairly decent as an embedded system. When the latter iteration of NT 4.0 and then 2000 came out, they had clearly changed their intent, and our product, to use a technical term, was "fucked". Ultimately, an investor with cold feet spelled the end of the company, but it was taking quite a long time to adapt to the new platform, and this was seen as a big problem.
We had trusted Microsoft to keep the platform stable for our uses, and they failed to do so. Had we had the source code to the OS, we could have potentially rewritten the parts that we needed to make things work, while still giving them their licensing fee for the newest product. We never (obviously) had the chance.
Now, I work for an organization that has to maintain a massive database, and while we bought the software that we use, we also received the source code, so we actively maintain our end. We and our vendor work to determine what changes we as an organization made, and sometimes these changes are rolled back into the next release or step of the product, if they're universally beneficial. Others aren't, and we simply have to go and check the new versions to make our changes. This approach works very well.
Even if 'open source' isn't the answer to everyones' problems, simply having the source at all can be very beneficial. Hopefully, more and more medium to large companies and organizations will realise this, and that this, rather than lawsuits, attacks, etc, will cause people to abandon Microsoft.
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
I hope I can get the source code to a Symbian and hack on it to improve the vibration modes, the "gooey" interface, and even make it go faster.
Oh, that's a Sybian. Never mind.
No, Vern. They just let him in.
They'll no doubt bring the same fine usability and security features they've perfected in Outlook to my cell phone's address book.
Just think of all the new capabilities we'll have! Helpful users (especially those swell guys in eastern europe!) will no doubt quickly create vbscript autodialers. Heck, my phone will probably call my friends more often that I do!
And that's the Microsoft Promise: "We do things so you don't have to!"
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Actually, the build of OpenOffice inside of Knoppix works astonishingly well at reading pretty complex word documents -- I actually used it to parse an RFP a few weeks ago, and that thing was a *mess*.
--Dan
The press release from Microsoft and a discussion at news.com.
It will be a cold day in hell before CCIEs stop using a command line interface. Being able to use config files and command lines has many advantages that will be familiar to *nix users.
Various web-based GUIs exist for Cisco routers (some of them are built in), as well as larger-scale provisioning/activation systems for QoS, IP VPNs, etc, which include GUIs as well as APIs. The latter don't replace CCIEs but they make it possible to use less skilled provisioning staff to do certain complex and repetitive configuration actions using the CLI.
There have been various efforts to provide a better protocol for provisioning systems to configure devices (e.g. COPS and now XMLCONF), but none of them has really taken off.
Is there anyway to give a -1 Flamebait to a submission? SHEESH!
Great links ... the last paragraph of Dan Gillmore's article gets to the crux of this and many other modern problems:
The one chance is for people to realize what's at stake and do something difficult: Make choices that mean less convenience today in order to have liberty tomorrow. Americans are lousy at this, but a lot is now at stake. You may not care. You should.
Yup. Americans ARE lousy at this, at least nowadays. We are the proud, the free, willing to fight for liberty justice for all, as long as we can do it with a remote from the couch. Today's America is a golden land of opportunity for anybody who can figure out clever ways to exploit our overriding aversion to inconvenience. That's the problem. Come up with a good solution to that, and the rest is details. My great fear is that fixing our sheep-like mentality is going to take something starkly real and immediate, like guerrilla warfare in our streets or an economic depression on the scale of the 1930s.
"In the extreme, this would be companies finding out what things are important to you, and using those things as ways of manipulating you. Advertising becomes _very_ effective when the advertiser knows what your weaknesses are."
That being why many marketing gurus have psychology degrees. People don't have anywehre near as much free will as they'd like to believe. We're creatures of habit and instinct, and we're very easily manipulated.
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
I used to read both daily, but the US version wouldn't have the same stories. They would have a subset, leaving some out and offering nothing more. I took it out of my bookmarks because the *real* register offered everything.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Then there is every possibility that Microsoft might try and stop the sale of your car because you can't transfer the license to the software. They'd need the buyer to buy a new Microsoft Windows CE for Automotive license. They've done it before.
Windows keeps on getting better and better.
After Windows ME, it couldnt really get worse could it?
Reuters has also has an article on the subject.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
That being why many marketing gurus have psychology degrees. People don't have anywehre near as much free will as they'd like to believe. We're creatures of habit and instinct, and we're very easily manipulated.
--- They may take our lives, but they will never take our FREEDOM!!!
Normally I would have a smart ass comment, but I don't think I need to say anything here.
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
People don't care about what OS the phone is running nearly as much as the telcos that have to support it. Also, phones are not percieved as computers and the branding of the software that runs on them matters little because the branding is on the device. Folks buy a Nokia or Motorola phone, not a Microsoft or Symbian phone.
Remember, You are unique...just like everyone else.
A common conclusion have been something like "Yeah, it looks like windows a bit, yeah, it can do some nice things but it is not really an good as pda, it takes 40 seconds to start and it is not a very nice telephone either."
A few reviews have contained rather nasty hints that it was *painfully* obvious that Microsoft was involved (original emphasis).
Faced with that, I'd probably cancel the product too, jump ship and be happy I didn't end up with an inventory of 100000 phones I couldn't sell.
Poul-Henning Kamp -- FreeBSD since before it was called that...
This is because a Cisco CCIE certification actually /means/ something. I've known a CCIE or three, and they've all told me that there's a lab test where the instructors are running around breaking the network, and to pass the test, you have to fix it real time. This is a far cry from MSIE, where you can pass the written test and still not know anything about how to fix issues in the real world.
Code or be coded.
FEWER not LESS. But kword is hardly a toy. I couldn't care less about Word documents. Nobody I know is stupid enough to send me Word documents. Aside from that, KWord is actually reasonably powerful, a good 80% product (ie. 80% of users find it powerful enough). It might not be right for people tied to closed content, but that doesn't make it a toy.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
Not on RedHad, buddy... that WILL get your ass in jail.
I was reporting a murderer on my Z100 Smartphone, and it was like, bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep. And then it was like, half the call was gone, and I was like hhggnnngnn? It devoured my call, and it was a really good call. I described him good, 'cause I like looked at him when he was after me. I had to call again really fast, but it wasn't as good 'cause he stabbed me, and it was, like, a bummer.
I'm Ellen Feiss, and when this sucking chest wound heals, I'm like, getting a Nokia.
--
"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
so, I'm not a programmer eh ?
I have 3 million lines of C under my belt, possibly more since I don't usually count that stuff. And before that piles and piles of assembler, 6502, 6809, 68000, x86, you name it I have probably programmed it.
I also run a bunch of technology companies and would be more than happy to part with Windows on
most of our office machines if I could find an alternative that REALLY works. So, every now and then when something promising pops up I give it a shot, but so far nothing came even close to being a competitor for the crap that gates puts out, which doesn't say much for the rest now does it ?
My point is, and just to make sure I don't draw any more crap like this:
Technology battles are not usually won in the media especially not in media like this, they are won by making things work and then promoting the hell out of them, the marketplace will take care of the rest. See MS vs IBM at some point in the past, and that was when nobody thought IBM could be unseated. Not by whining about the competition. Knoppix seems to be a step in the right direction, and with a little - not even that much - concerted effort we can make it a home run but whining is not going to solve it.
For personal reasons I have decided to stay away from open source myself (we have to eat you know...), but I presume there are many people like me out there that would be glad to make the switch given an alternative that really works and that does not require me to have either a double boot or two machines to be able to do my daily work.
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While hearing a talk given by Sham Chakravorty (one of the founders of Signafore and in the comm field for 30 years this February) last night, he mentioned that while other router companies were putting pretty gui's on their network management interface Cisco was busy making fast and robust routers.
(this is a paraphrase... but I inferred that Cisco owned the market becuase they really had the better product)
Just becuase it is easier doesn't mean it is better.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Steve-O: "Yay! WHOOOOHOOOO! Developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS! WHO TOLD YOU TO SIT DOWN?"
Jules: "Nobody."
Steve-O: "What did you say?"
Jules: "I said 'Nobody'. Don't you speak english? What country are you from?"
Steve-O: "What???"
Jules: "'What' ain't no country I ever heard of. Do they speak english in 'What'?"
Steve-O: "What...."
Jules (draws gun, points at Steve-Os face): "Say 'What' again, SAY 'What' again, I dare you motherfucker, I double-dare you, say 'What' again..."
Steve-O: "But...but...I just was saying that our Software is sooo sweet and you should dance and sing and not sit down...."
Jules: "You don't give us the sources, so we're not dancenig our singing or buying no Software from you."
Steve-O: "What?"
BLAM!BLAM!BLAM!
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
I own a ford, the biggest safety flaw is me!
(Aside from the tree that drove into me, and the minibus that reversed into me, and fell apart, at a red light)
So what happens when you get a blue screen of death at 200kph on the autobahn?
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
I have a question about a possible Microsoft avenue. Do you think Microsoft could sell their source code to a company for x amount of dollars and also require licenses for the derivatives of that modified OS?
Example
ABC Widget company buys the source for XP Pro for $20,000 and then, after modifying XP to actually do the stuff they need, they use 100 copies of it, and they have to pay Microsoft for 100 licenses of XP. Wouldn't this work? I mean, it would allow companies to work on XP, but also allow them to keep making money. One concern might be that the source might "get out" but I'm sure they'd figure out some way to know how it got out and then sue the company for all their worth. Anyways, just an idea, I don't know what yall would think of that...
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But the point is that CCIE is about general internetworking knowledge; the body of knowledge you need to pass the certification is wide and deep.
MCSE is not the same thing whatseover.
CCIEs make lots of money because there are not many peopel with their full set of skills out there in the world. In contrast, there are a bazillion and two MCSEs, and in many circles it is regarded as a worthless certification.
I don't know anyone who considers CCIE to be worthless.
For those who didn't get the humour in the parent posting should visit http://www.apple.com/switch/ads/ellenfeiss.html and http://www.ellenfeiss.net/.
"Linux is like my wife, hard to understand but very easy to get under the hood."
Never use your wife to make a statement, it will get thrown back at you.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
So it's nothing to do with the fact that they announced this phone YEARS ago, never released it and now orange have gone a developed their own similar phone which is actually going to be available and for much less money than sendo were planning on charging? I think is entirely possible they were simply unable to produce a competative phone and decided to blame someone else.
Sig is taking a break!
So, to get rid of oppressive regimes we should shoot people for not using Linux?
Yes, damnit! Hell, I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!
GIR: I'm going to sing the Doom song now. Doom doom doom doom doom doom de-doom doom doom doom doom doom doom...
I thought you could just download that of the M$ homepage? Has something changed or is this a diffrent product they were after?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I downloaded only one of Sendo's sample code zip files off of their developer's website. I found it to be very helpful. Much more helpful than any documentation that Microsoft has put out so far for the Smartphone platform. I was wondering if anyone had in their possession, the entire Sendo sample code library. If you do, I would really appreciate it if you could send me the zip files.
This is not insightful. None of the programs listed require windows or any part of the win32 (or other windows) API. There are other operating systems which can be used for anything which is done with Windows.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Funny, even without the launch those people on the front page are still laughing and yakking it up on their spiffy new phone. I wonder who's it is?
Obviously they must either have hardware problems or a serious financial rethink going on (maybe Nokia helped them with that
I took one look at the site (click on the phone picture). Sheesh! They only are about 20 generations behind phones in Japan and the cutting edge. Or are they specializing in low-end phones and can't afford what M$ is asking?
You don't make a decision like this after you build the product. Sounds like they really had nothing but vapor and have just begun to think about "let's build a cell phone".
Up to a certain point - as Sendo has so amply demonstrated. I don't think this is the outcome Microsoft wanted.
My opinion? See above.