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Jason,

So by your own admission you’ve not even used the Marketplace and you post this article?

Did you not even know that the Marketplace works with WinMo 6.1? That’s right, just got a Verizon HTC Touch Pro 2 a couple of weeks ago with 6.1 and if you had bothered to check it out you can download the CAB and install it on a 6.1 device, which I did.

So under 6.1, and I would imagine that it’s no different under 6.5, one can REDOWNLOAD their apps. Amazing what 20 minutes of effort unveils. I’ve purchased about $30 worth of stuff from it and I tested reinstalling first thing. I installed those apps, removed them when back into the Marketplace app and viola, I was able to reinstall all of my apps.

As to the security issue that’s on the developer to implement the DRM, at least for now and it’s not like developers haven’t been doing this for years already on the Marketplace even. I have a number of apps that do this like Kinoma Play, which is in the Marketplace though I bought my copy long ago. And what would be any different if the developer just sold their app directly? You would have a CAB or PC based installer that you could do with as you please as well without some type of DRM built into it. Honestly, horrendous logic.

Sorry Jason, this article is just uninformed and utterly useless. Not trying to be harsh be you were even unware that 6.1 devices can use the Marketplace. If I know how to do it so should you BEFORE you write about it. That's irresponsible.