Microsoft adds Angry Birds to Windows Phone 7 site, Angry Birds developer say WTF
Microsoft is busy making new friends with popular mobile developers, except some of the friendships seem to be entirely one-sided.
RovioMobile, the developers of the incredibly popular Angry Birds game, noticed that Microsoft put their famous apps icon on the Windows Phone 7 site – without permission and without any agreement to build the hit game for Windows Phone 7.
Oops. It looks like Microsoft has since taken the icon off of their WP7 site, perhaps they shouldn’t count their app chickens before the developer eggs hatch huh? I’m sure Windows Phone 7 will be reasonably popular and will likely even get Angry Birds onto the platform, but this is a great example of how not to build relationships with developers.
Microsoft is obviously pushing hard for Windows Phone 7 to be relevant from the start, earlier in the year it was revealed that they are directly paying mobile developers to create apps for the upcoming mobile operating system.
Thanks to Robert for sending in the tip and pictures.
@Nick, no it wasn’t.
@armin, their was used in proper context.
Most likely this is some marketing intern not thinking hard enough about what he’s publishing.
What is Windows I have never heard of it?
Troll Tom fails at trolling.
boy, this fanboi is fishing for something, anything to badmouth this innovative new platform. android and ios are late 90s, icon driven clones. this is new and exciting and only ms has all the proerties to put this all in place. you are even calling angry birds wildly popular???? never heard of it in my lifer, who cares. it has full ms office and you can play xbox, the top gaming service in the world on it. can iphone or android get an app for that???? i dont think so, stick toi your 250000 fart apps and dog whistles and leave real computing to serious people.
W7 is not innovation, its replication.
no angry birds? now thats a deal breaker, and no office, xbox, ie, bing, zune, outlook, or live tiles???
oh wait it has those, I guess I will be first in line.
wtf is a “live tile”
lol @ zune. really? zune? ha ha
This is Balmer-esque, what a bunch of doofus they have up their in Redmond
The arrogance is amazing here, oh we are Microsoft and so you will develop for us! You didn’t know yet? I love how ‘Balmer-esque’ is a description that oh so accurately conveys the sheer magnitude of these kind of bone-headed maneuvers.
Call me a naysayer but Windows Phone is coming into a market that is already satisfied with the simplicity of iOS and the complexity of Android. Where is Windows Phone OS going to fit in? I guess they can try to jam it down the few businesses throats that aren’t yet using Android or iOS… all four of them.
Doofus, yeah. Coming from the guy who can’t even spell the word “there”, that sure means something.
So how’s that working at a company in terminal decline working for you then Armin? hmmm?
…and that coming from someone who doesn’t know that the comma should be enclosed within the quotation marks. Grow up, h-mo!