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Episode: 0x0A: Windows Mobile Windows Phone 7 Series Application Store

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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.

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 used by Charles
    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 called
    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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