Upcoming WP7 update will disable ChevronWP7, future of Homebrew up in the air

Last night, the ChevronWP7 team posted a new blog on their upcoming meeting with Microsoft in Redmond next calendar week. At that word, they program to put forth the argument as to why the Hombrew community is important as well as the general feeling on improving the Os:

We'll be sharing our perspective on the homebrew potentials of Windows Phone 7 and some of the wider community feedback around the platform. In improver to our homebrew focus, we volition as well be pushing for stronger protection of WP7 developer intellectual holding (IP) on the platform as we believe both can co-exist on the platform.

Sounds pretty good. Merely then again, in that location'due south certainly no commitment from Microsoft to comprehend or work towards a hombrew customs. Information technology seems that you lot tin can only have it all open or all closed, only in between is hard to navigate. Only hey, there's some smart people effectually discussing this stuff so maybe a workaround tin can exist reached?

The second large bombshell is that ChevronWP7, technically discontinued, will no longer work later on the upcoming 'NoDo' update:

Although this has been subtly communicated before, we'd like to reiterate Microsoft has informed united states the "coding error" used in the ChevronWP7 unlocker will no longer work after the next Windows Phone vii update (officially announced at CES 2022).

And so that's that, evidently. Of course we imagine some other immature, starry eyed squad will come up a long and we'll repeat the whole process by say....March or Apr. Much like the locked-unlocked-locked bicycle of the iPhone and the Cydia community, this has the potential to go on for a long time. However, if Microsoft comes upwardly with a Homebrew solution, that would easily nip in the bud the desire for more black-hat activities amongst the customs.

Possibly nosotros're cynical, but we're just not holding our breath on the homebrew thing happening. Your thoughts?

Source: ChevronWP7; via @ChrisWalshie

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