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Angry Birds is finally released on Windows Phone 7
THE WILDLY POPULAR GAME Angry Birds is finally available for Windows Phone 7 users for the not very reasonable price of £2.49.
Angry Birds has been a long running favourite on both Apple's IOS and Google's Android mobile operating systems. Now Microsoft's WP7 users have finally been granted access to one of the most famous mobile phone games of all time.
The Windows Phone blog yesterday said, "At last. Angry Birds is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace-a few hours ahead of schedule and so fresh it hasn't even been rated yet!"
The game is a 17MB download and the last of the six games in the Xbox Must Have Games series. The other five are Hydro Thunder Go, Doodle Jump, Geodefence, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I and Plants vs Zombies.
Strangely enough, today's WP7 marketplace background image isn't for Angry Birds but The Sims 3. But Angry Birds has had over 250 million combined downloads worldwide.
Not only have WP7 users had to wait forever to get the game, they have to pay £2.49 for it, unless they're happy playing the selection of free levels. Apple's Ithingy users have to pay only 59p for the game, whilst Android users get it for nothing.
Back in February the WP7 web site had a picture of Angry Birds without Rovio's permission, which said "We have NOT committed to doing a Windows Phone 7 version." Well, now it has, but it'll cost you some cash. µ
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“Hey man...that's a nice little open-source company you gots there...would be a real shame if somethin' was to happens to it...if ya get's my drift...”
Microsoft is now like the “Guido” of the IT industry, extorting protection money from innovative open-source companies that threaten its proprietary charge-for-everything business model. If they can't out-innovate, they either just threaten and extort money from, or litigate.
So I do not see why anyone would choose to purchase a WP7 “Guido-Phone” and support this abuse of democracy and free enterprise. A dollar spent on Microsoft is a dollar spent to fund a corporate bully's efforts to remove freedom of choice.
That's just cause Android users are better People! That know that an Open Source (well as open as you can get), platform is the only way to go.
I'm kinda looking forward to Nokias' N9 Meego Phone, since it runs the same Dalvik Code that's on Android, it could mean that the N9 has, (an albeitly limmited) a chance for success in running Apps from the Android Market as well as whatever Nokia plain to rename there OVI Store Apps.