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I don't know, why did they buy them in the first place? Just to kill them? Did they fire the whole system staff they used to have? I just can't believe they ju

by nkassis 17y ago

I don't know, why did they buy them in the first place? Just to kill them? Did they fire the whole system staff they used to have? I just can't believe they just know stopped running backups and let it die. Sounds odd, and prone to being sued by T-Mobile quick. (Maybe Microsoft is going after T-Mobile for android?)

jsz0 17y ago
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/09/exclusive_pink_danger_leaks_from_microsofts_windows_phone.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/09/exclusive_pink... The most relevant bits: "The final operator who is going to be pissed is T-Mobile, who has been just as loyal of a partner to Danger as Sharp has been. I don't know exactly what Microsoft has been telling them, but they have no doubt realized that they've been cut out of this deal in favor of their largest competitor. What's worse is that apparently Microsoft has been lying to them this whole time about the amount of resources that they've been putting behind Sidekick development and support (in reality, it was cut down to a handful of people in Palo Alto managing some contractors in Romania, Ukraine, etc.). "The reason for the deceit wasn't purely to cover up the development of Pink but also because Microsoft could get more money from T-Mobile for their support contract if T-Mobile thought that there were still hundreds of engineers working on the Sidekick platform. As we saw from their recent embarrassment with Sidekick data outages, that has clearly not been the case for some time."
- rbanffy 17y ago
  This would be fraud. Microsoft would never do that! Now, seriously, Microsoft is not be likely to commit fraud in order to get more money from T-Mobile. But they are perfectly capable of engaging in any unethical behaviour that would prevent T-Mobile from investing more in Android, and, less specifically, of anything that could prevent Android from gaining foothold. They should really worry because many phones run Windows Mobile only as a kernel and the users seldom see its underpinnings. It would be rather easy to port those front-ends to other platforms. Actually, I would fire the developers who didn't isolate them from the underlying OS as much as possible.

by nkassis 17y ago

jsz0 17y ago

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/09/exclusive_pink_danger_leaks_from_microsofts_windows_phone.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/09/exclusive_pink... The most relevant bits: "The final operator who is going to be pissed is T-Mobile, who has been just as loyal of a partner to Danger as Sharp has been. I don't know exactly what Microsoft has been telling them, but they have no doubt realized that they've been cut out of this deal in favor of their largest competitor. What's worse is that apparently Microsoft has been lying to them this whole time about the amount of resources that they've been putting behind Sidekick development and support (in reality, it was cut down to a handful of people in Palo Alto managing some contractors in Romania, Ukraine, etc.). "The reason for the deceit wasn't purely to cover up the development of Pink but also because Microsoft could get more money from T-Mobile for their support contract if T-Mobile thought that there were still hundreds of engineers working on the Sidekick platform. As we saw from their recent embarrassment with Sidekick data outages, that has clearly not been the case for some time."

rbanffy 17y ago
This would be fraud. Microsoft would never do that! Now, seriously, Microsoft is not be likely to commit fraud in order to get more money from T-Mobile. But they are perfectly capable of engaging in any unethical behaviour that would prevent T-Mobile from investing more in Android, and, less specifically, of anything that could prevent Android from gaining foothold. They should really worry because many phones run Windows Mobile only as a kernel and the users seldom see its underpinnings. It would be rather easy to port those front-ends to other platforms. Actually, I would fire the developers who didn't isolate them from the underlying OS as much as possible.