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Microsoft Bans VoIP, Rival Stores At Mobile Market

Posted by Soulskill on from the thou-shalt-have-no-other-app-stores-before-me dept.

narramissic writes "Microsoft has identified 12 application types that won't be accepted at the MarketPlace for Mobile store. Among them: VoIP apps, programs that are larger than 10MB, and programs that change the default browser on a device. Overly restrictive? Maybe. But perhaps the clear set of rules (PDF) will prevent confusion similar to what's been encountered over Apple's policy for approving or rejecting applications from the App Store."

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  1. Re:Excuse me by m50d · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Who's to say the next IPhone won't stab users in the face with a fork?

    Could we maybe wait until such restrictions are actually, you know, announced, before bashing MS for them?

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  2. Re:So? by Animaether · · Score: 5, Insightful

    no?

    You already purchased Windows, one way or another (unless you're a pirate - ARRR!!!!!), so you can put whatever the heck you want on there.

    The Windows Marketplace is a -store-. You don't own it. Why exactly should they have to -sell- (or offer) another company's software - especially if it's competing software?

    Don't like it? Go to Handango.com or pocketgear.com or any of dozens of other stores.

    Microsoft isn't stopping anybody from installing competing 'market place'-type software; they just don't want to offer/sell it through their own market place. Sounds normal to me.

  3. MS sells out by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, who would have thought the once-cool MS would one day become as heavy-handed as Apple!

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