On June 8, in the year of Our Lord 2012 Anno Domini, the Microsoft Windows Phone Team unveiled their latest creation.
What was it?
It was, tada…
The Windows Phone Gear Store on CafePress.
Despite the shortness of the article, I found myself reading it several times over – it was quite late at night, and I was losing mental coherency - in order to understand it.
Unable to do so, I forwarded myself a link to read it further, and promptly forgot about it.
Earlier today, in the process of triaging my email accounts, I came upon the email I had sent myself over a week ago.
A re-read of it was in order. After doing so, it finally dawned upon me why I couldn’t understand it previously: my incredulousness at the nerve of the Windows Phone folks to throw this bone at their fawning userbase when they were bereft of any cogent information, or upon a lack of information about the platform.
Rather than press telcos, especially the coneheads at Sprint, to deliver OS updates to users, this is what they ‘delivered’?
Color me jaded, or cynical, or anything you want, but color me freakin’ pissed!
The latest from the Windows Phone Team is a series of ship-its or gewgaws for their cattle!
This action by the Windows Phone team reminds me of the poem, Old Mother Hubbard, which I will paraphrase here:
The Windows Phone Gear Store poem
The Windows Phone Team
Went to their workshop
To give long-suffering WP7 users a bone
But the cupboard was bare
So they threw up some tchoktchkes on CafePress
And hoped the proletariat wouldn’t care!
The actual first stanza of Old Mother Hubbard is printed below.
Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone:
When she came there,
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.
