{"id":5966,"date":"2012-01-02T14:27:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T14:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2012-01-02T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T14:27:31","slug":"when-something-is-sold-out-its-not-microsoft-being-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/when-something-is-sold-out-its-not-microsoft-being-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"When something is sold out, it&#8217;s not Microsoft being evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of gnashing of teeth in the Windows Phone world as the ChevronWP7 team, who provide a legal method to unlock any Windows Phone device to run homebrew software, announce they are halting sales of the unlock &#8220;token&#8221; at 10,000. The reasoning is simple, the contract with Microsoft is for a maximum of 10,000 tokens.\u00a0It&#8217;s not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/microsoft\/2012\/1\/2\/2676092\/windows-phone-chevronwp7-jailbreak-on-hold\">Microsoft being evil<\/a>, or pulling the rug out from under them, it&#8217;s old-fashioned logistics. There were 10,000 units, they are all sold, and the hobby team now have to decide if they want to carry on with a proven market, and all the support issues they need to take care of.<\/p>\n<p>What would be interesting is if Microsoft would provide the same contract to another team to provide an unlocking solution&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of gnashing of teeth in the Windows Phone world as the ChevronWP7 team, who provide a legal method to unlock any Windows Phone device to run homebrew software, announce they are halting sales of the unlock &#8220;token&#8221; at 10,000. The reasoning is simple, the contract with Microsoft is for a maximum of 10,000 tokens.\u00a0It&#8217;s not Microsoft being evil, or pulling the rug out from under them, it&#8217;s old-fashioned logistics. There were 10,000 units, they are all sold, and the hobby team now have to decide if they want to carry on with a proven market, and all the support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,4,2245],"tags":[2288,3474,3473,2246],"class_list":["post-5966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-windows-phone","tag-chevronwp7","tag-homebrew","tag-unlock","tag-windows-phone-2","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1ye","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}