splashphoto for free !!! msmobiles steal???

[Guest peekie]

i have read a lot on the free version from the splash photo programme and sent an email complaining about the programme being a 30 day trial and this is the response i got back tut tut msmobiles

This software was not meant to be available to the public. It was an unreleased promotion that was illegally leaked to the public by msmobiles.com.

This was not supposed to be available to the public until placed in a special catalog, where the handheld application would be free, and the desktop available for upgrade.

MSMobiles.com hacks at the Handango website looking for opportunities like this to steal software that is not yet available.

So we pulled the download, and the redirect is taking you to our mobile website, where a free trial is available. Sorry for the confusion.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Regards,

Justin

so there you have it its not for free

[Guest kjk]

shame :roll:

[Guest McHale]

"It was an unreleased promotion that was illegally leaked to the public by msmobiles.com."

Then why did they put it on Handango with free as the price? Anyone searching for the software would have found it... It's not like someone purchased the software and posted the direct link for the full version download.

"This was not supposed to be available to the public until placed in a special catalog, where the handheld application would be free, and the desktop available for upgrade."

so they were going to give it to the public for free?

I don't understand what their big complaint is other than "we have an employee who is new and posted it to Handango before we were ready" which isn't msmobiles fault.

They intended it to be available on Handango for free. I don't think anyone should feel bad because someone actually downloaded it. If someone found the software and wanted to pay for it, THERE IS NO LINK.

-Mc

[Guest midnight]

because the point is, the software was in a 'holding area' on handango, it wasnt made public. Msmobiles used spidering robots to get around this, which could get him in trouble. The holding area is there for a reason, to check the download, to check your wording, and tio finally check that the software is all functional and correct before submitting. By using a 'hack' to circumvent security/find non-public url's could be considered handango's fault for not having good enough security, this does not make it any more right to abuse it.

[Guest peekie]

the whole original point was that on the msmobile site they said it was free and to hurry up before the link was gone , i downloaded as did many others only to find it was a trial. if you had clicked on the download you were redirected to a special page where you had 3 options to buy ,down load the trial and info on the product.i was angry as i saw a free sign with freeware so i sent an email to the company to complain and to ask why freeware is trailware ( not the same ) and the email i got back is the one above. if you search from handango for the product normally you will find it but with the 19 dollar price tag and msmobiles found another page check under public newsgroups/microsoft.public.smartphone for reactions ect from msmobiles and others :wink: :wink: :wink:

[Guest McHale]

well, if they intended to give it away for free anyway, why are they complaining again?

-Mc

[Guest midnight]

besides the point, it wasnt ready for release, you can add to holding area and not release to public