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Windows Phone Homebrew Hits a Snag
symbolset writes "TheNextWeb is reporting that the first official jailbreak for Windows Phone 7, ChevronWP7, has 'sold out' of tokens to enable homebrew application support. Only 10,000 tokens to jailbreak Windows Phones were ever granted. According to an announcement through ChevronWP7's Twitter feed, they're discussing whether they will ask Microsoft to make more available. With Lumia falling flat in Europe Microsoft needs all the enthusiastic modding fans they can get."
ChevronWP7 wasn't a jailbreak, it didn't give you control over the phone. All it really did was give you the rights of a developer account, without paying for it.
Those of us who were waiting for a true jailbreak, with native-code execution and control of the system, were sorely disappointed that ChevronWP7 got so much publicity, because after that, people stopped working on trying to really jailbreak the phone. It was sad.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Microsoft doesn't want Android to fail. They are profiting half a billion every year from it, without doing anything.
Hello that same guy, who "mistook" pointing out one MS shill for "They censor anyone pro-MS!".
Incidentally, top comment of that thread was same NOKIA LUMIA IS THE WINNER without any grounding in reality.
Incidentally 2, he already posted it as unaccepted submission
Incidentally 3, judging by your behaviours, I'll classify you as "yet another part of CmdrInterstsightfulFellowIn140Bytes sockpuppet account".
I live in Australia and I have yet to see anyone with a WP7 powered device in hand. I catch the train to work every day and the train is full of people using their phones/tablets/tablets/mp3 players to pass the time. If you go to any mobile phone reseller WP7 handsets are never up front and in many cases are not even on display in the shops front window. I can only imagine the numbers Microsoft are showing are stock figures not actual sales especially considering most wholesalers are stocking up as the AUD dollar is very good (I work for a wholesale electronics company and our warehouse is full to be brim).
Then you obviously don't remember your history because MSFT just came out from under antitrust and as long as there is competition MSFT can do whatever they want, just like their competitors. Besides as another pointed out MSFT gets paid for a large chunk of those Android phones, they don't get squat for the iPhone. That said i think a big reason why MSFT has embraced HTML V5 is thanks to MPEG-LA having complete and total control over H.26x they and Apple could split that market and the rest will "have to pay their $699 license fee" to borrow from an old meme.
Personally, and you'd think the majority here would agree if ACs weren't infected this place like a cancer, I hope the WinPhone carves out a nice just as i hope RIM doesn't die and WebOS finds a home. Competition is GOOD folks, its what gives us low prices and new innovations because if you sit on your ass your market share dries up and blows away, just ask the IE team. The more competitors we have in the mobile field the better as far as I'm concerned because ultimately its good for the consumer to have plenty of choices. I mean can you imagine if it ends up just Android and iOS? apple will use the courts to kill all the higher priced units so you end up with the iPhone VS CCC (Cheapo Chinese Crapola) which will give them a monopoly on the high end. Say what you want about MSFT but their lawyers are just as nasty as any of the Nazgul they have working in Apple legal and Apple would be fools to try to lock WinPhone out of the market.
So I hope we end up with a healthy market even if my guts tell me it'll end up a three way race. But of course I'm not an AC going "Everyone go to hell except cave 76!" and I don't treat OSes like ball clubs, hell I don't treat ball clubs like ball clubs. If /. wants to reverse their declining numbers how about instead of giving me the option to remove ads they give me the option to remove AC posts from my view? I bet the conversations would be MUCH more civil. Hell we might even get like we used to where you'd have long back and forth posts talking about subjects intelligently based on merits and demerits instead of all this AC horseshit ruining the flow.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Same here in the UK. I see tons of people with Android and iOS phones but no one with a WP7 phone nor do you even hear anyone mention them. If it weren't for the internet I wouldn't know they exist.
Two months ago, I traded my wonderful G2 for a HD7 to get a taste of the Windows Phone experience. I've used Windows Mobile since the 2003 version on the MPx200 (solid flip-phone; absolutely loved it) and wanted to see how far Microsoft has matured in the mobile arena.
:)
Windows Phone 7 has, hands down, the best mobile UI experience you can get right now. Everything is fluid, fast and easy. The stock applications and voice controls gel perfectly and make Android look like a total mess, though it's cleaned up its act with Ice Cream Sandwich. App switching is WebOS-like and will make multi-tasking awesome when it comes to life in the next version. It's integration with Windows Live and Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is the best I have ever seen and used and totally antiquates the need for their dedicated apps. (This might not matter for many Slashdot folks, but it matters for most people.) Forget iPod and iTunes; the Zune is just as easy to use and is much prettier to use. (It helps that the Zune software runs great on Windows, unlike iTunes.) The camera has ZERO lag, though the lens on the HD7 absolutely sucked. It's experience is absolutely beautiful and I can totally see iPhone users defecting to this once the app ecosystem.
Microsoft's strategy to use Nokia as their flagship supplier makes much more sense after you use it for a while; Nokia still has huge brand recognition and will shake up the market really nicely when they release (and market) their ace device.
The biggest obvious problem is that Apple and Android both had first-mover's advantage and, thus, own the space at the moment. However, this is not as problematic as it seems. People are getting tired of iOS (it hasn't changed very much since 1.0, despite great hardware advances) and Windows Phone offers a very cool and equally smooth alternative that a lot of people will feel comfortable moving to, especially with its strong Facebook integration. It's going to be very difficult for Apple to match this and Android's UI improvements and they can't depend on making killer hardware leaps anymore since both fronts have caught up there. (Kind of like how Intel can't really market GHz anymore since every processor is "fast enough.")
Apple is, finally, in trouble, but that's what happens when you're on top for so long.