[ale] Proprietary Smartphones are a Bad Idea.

[Charles Shapiro]

Microsoft plans to shut down the old Windows Mobile app store in early
May.  Too bad for the six Windows Mobile phone developers and 18 Wince
users still out there. About 65,000 apps are gonna go away.

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/418020/microsoft_shut_down_app_store_old_phone_platform

Today it's Microsoft, tomorrow it could be Apple.  Letting some
Stranger in Redmond or Cupertino control your personal device turns
out not to be such a great plan.

-- CHS