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msmobiles.com_robot · Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 16777215

Handango - the biggest online shop with mobile software, also Windows Mobile software, becomes even more customer-hostile with introduction of mandatory (!) registration just to download a trial version:

Read more at http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/6462.html

xandermac · Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 3

"free" registration required to comment...

EJR · Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 2629

adrusa · Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 10

I encountered this problem just yesterday. I wanted to download a trial version of a p990i software and I was requested to register and I thought it was too much hazzles so I looked around and I found the app somewhere else.

Handango will lose bussiness, in addition to the developers. But I think it will harm handango more as people are likely to just go elsewhere to buy or try their softwares.

And that is certainly not the same thing as registering to post. In every decent society people identify themselves before giving an opinion. You may chose to read and not post (as I did here for many years).

chucky.egg · Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 38

I did laugh when I saw this.

You must get a lot of hate/spam mail because you have a real "thing" about not having to leave an email address for anything!

Just the other day/week you were reporting about some app that was "free" but used your Data service to download adverts. Not a word there about it not really being "free"

I think we get an idea of the scale of your paranoia when you're quite happy to pay for adverts, but don't like to leave your email address behind.