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Episode: 0x0A: Windows Mobile Windows Phone 7 Series Application Store
1 March 2011
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Summary
Bradley and Karen
discussed the Windows Phone 7 Application Store terms and conditions
which prohibit GPL'd and other copylefted software in the application store.
This show was released on Tuesday 1 March 2011; its
running time is 00:38:13.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Karen and Bradley discussed the Microsoft Phone Marketplace
agreement, which was heavily
covered
in
news
and
blogs. (02:50)
●Karen quoted directly from the § 1(l) from the Windows Phone
Marketplace Application Provider Agreement (03:20)
●Bradley credited Jello Biafra with coining the term
“punditocracy”, but it seems to have been
first usedbyCharles
Reynell in The Economist in 1989 and popularized by
Eric Alterman
in his 1992 book, Sound & Fury: The Making of
the Punditocracy.
●Bradley mentioned the brouhaha about
the order of succession after Regan was shot in 1981. (Bradley
incorrectly said 1980 on the show.) (09:47)
●Karen and Bradley previously discussed the Apple Online Store
agreement on FaiF
Episode 0x03.
●Bradley mentioned that the arm
port of Windows 7 isn't even done (21:30)
●According to a Canalys study quoted on
Wikipedia's
Smartphone entry, RIM is only 14% of the market now, when it was
previously much larger. Symbian is still the largest,
surprisingly. (25:21)
●K-9 Mail is a fork
of the last Free Software version of Google's Android Mail
application. (30:21)
●Bradley compared what's happening with Android to the history of
X Windows (31:40)
●Bradley joked about the naming
length controversy for the Windows Phone 7. (33:00)
●Steve
Ballmer strangely kept saying: The operating system is c
alled
Windows
while talking to market analysis back in
July 2010. (36:04)
After the show was recorded, there was an announcement
that Microsoft would allow employees to build their own companies writing
Windows 7 Series Windows Mobile applications.
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