Windows Mobile more open than Google Android!
September 27, 2009 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R.
Windows Mobile is open to 3rd party applications and is a closed source, commercial, not-free, product. Google Android is supposed to be open source and free, but it looks like Windows Mobile in fact is more open than Google Android because Google proactively blocks people who cook their own Android ROM updates:
This is pretty big. Just to put this into perspective, xda-developers.com have, if we're brutally honest, been pretty much ignored by Microsoft for many years. Windows Mobile ROM's are all over the place with 6.5 builds appearing weekly for every WinMo phone on the planet. What's happened to those people working on tweaking every bit of the OS and TouchFLO, then redistributing the (paid-for) OS, complete with Office Apps and all manner of Microsoft copyrighted material ? Nothing really. Now, with the tweaked builds appearing for Android and the whole "modding" scene just starting, Google have effectively put the brakes on.
To learn more, visit related story about Google putting breaks on ROM modding.
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