[ale] Hacking Your Smartphone ( next Thursday's talk)

[Jim Kinney]

can we vote on where to apply the tar, feathers and fence rail? I was
thinking to use the fence rail to pack the tar and feathers where his head
usually is.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> Looks like the choice for open and free smartphones is gonna be
> Android and . . . Android.  Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky ( prez of
> Microsoft's Windows division,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky ), has this to say about
> Windows on smartphones (aka Windows 8 on ARM, or WOA ):
>
> WOA does not support running, emulating, or porting existing x86/64
> desktop apps. Code that uses only system or OS services from WinRT can
> be used within an app and distributed through the Windows Store for
> both WOA and x86/64. Consumers obtain all [WOA] software, including
> device drivers, through the Windows Store and Microsoft Update or
> Windows Update.
>
> In short, if you want to develop or run your own software on your own
> portable device, Android is It.  IOS or Winders won't do.  Further, if
> you want to develop an application which runs on both a Windows device
> and a Windows smartphone, you're going to have to use the Microsoft
> delivery system to distribute it.  No in-house repositories or distro
> methods allowed!
>
> I for one welcome our new Steve Ballmer overlords.  With tar,
> feathers, and a fence rail.
>
> -- CHS
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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
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