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Microsoft Pursues WebOS Devs, Offers Free Phones
CWmike writes "Taking advantage of Hewlett-Packard's departure from the tablet and smartphone market, Microsoft has offered webOS developers free phones, tools and training to create apps for Windows Phone 7. Brandon Watson, Microsoft's senior director of Windows Phone 7 development, made the offer on Twitter on Friday, and has been fielding queries ever since. 'To Any Published WebOS Devs: We'll give you what you need to be successful on #WindowsPhone, incl. free phones, dev tools, and training, etc.,' Watson said a day after HP's announcement. Before Friday was out, Watson said he had received more than 500 emails from interested developers, and later, that the count was closing in on 600."
Wait...you were trying to be serious...
How sad and pathetic.
% 65 percent hardware failure rate
% The gimped last gen DVD drive ruining games and creating a nightmare for developers
% The wimpy and poorly designed graphics hardware - the Xbox 360 graphics are so weak it is the only console in history to be forced to rely on rigged and faked multiplatform screen shot comparisons because its own exclusives are so embarrassingly bad
% Being forced to pay 60 dollars a year for laggy P2P based online gaming
% The ripoff accessory prices
% The giant Ghostbusters powerbrick
% The Jet Engine Loud operation due to the crappy last gen DVD drive spinning like mad and the junk cooling system working desperately to keep the piece of junk from RRoDing
% No games - only 3 first party dev studios compared to Sony's gigantic 21 and Nintendo's 10
% The piece of shit Sony Eye Toy ripoff aka Kinect
% No Blu-Ray movies - just shitty sub-HD Netflix and crappy old DVDs
% The crappy and poorly designed controller
% No web browser
% The creepy and lame Nintendo Mii ripoffs
Hey but at least if you love downgraded PC ports and shitty Eye Toy style wave your arms around like and idiot games, the Xbox 360 is perfect!