I am not happy at all with sd card think. This is surely going to give a good time for hacker to pirate app. It will be a bad news for developers. And so a bad news for just a small platform. Android can live with piracy(help dead triger had 80%pirat rate developer was forced to make it free) as they have enough mass of paid customer to sustain development
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This point of view is so narrow and false it's criminal- and I see it repeated here often.
Android does have piracy, but it has nothing to do with the SD card at all. In fact many apps can't actually be saved to the card if the developer doesn't want it to. The piracy on android has to do with the fact that it's an open platform with what little security there was blown wide open long ago.
If piracy did have something to do with the card, wtf is your suggestion? We screw all WP users over by maiming the platform and making everyone miserable? Really? Let me guess, you're also the type of person that thinks DRM is a good thing.
Moreover *you already can download xaps*. Why is piracy not an issue? Because they're encrypted. MS can and will easily implement a bitlocker partition or some other kind of security for developers. Really guys, it doesn't take much imagination to create a solution to make everyone happy- use your brain. Besides, MS has been all about protecting developer content- do you really think they're going to just drop all that now?
Now consider the possibility that someone does find an exploit with the updated SD method. What happens? Depending on the severity of the exploit, hackers would find security holes for MS to patch up. Hackers could release programs and apps for us to improve our system, enabling us more customization, functionality and power.
Win win.