Glitch spotted in Windows Phone Store, allows installation of Nokia exclusive apps on all phones [Updated]

At last count, Nokia had well over 50 exclusive apps or games in its Collection, giving Lumia owners a slight border in features.

But that advantage may be no more than, at least temporarily. According to Chinese site WPDang, there is a freshly spotted glitch in Windows Phone Store that could enable everyone to download exclusive apps from the Nokia Drove.

Yes. The pic above shows Nokia Glam Me being installed in a Huawei Arise W1. Not photoshopped.

Basically, the server glitch is exploited like this:

1. Someone sets up a proxy server which disguises itself as a Lumia phone.
2. Users anywhere connect to the Windows Phone Store through said proxy, finer disguising themselves as Lumia phones as well.
3. Users perform search via the proxy in the Store, searching for Nokia-sectional apps past name. Ordinarily a device model/brand check would be performed past the Store server, and refuse to offer any upshot upon finding model/brand mismatch. Merely since at present those users are cloaked, the server will spill app descriptions and download links without a fuss.
4. However, the proxy server is not able to pass file download streams to each user request, therefore not-Nokia users who just managed to get app download links are not able to really buy or download stuff.
5. This is where the server glitch actually exists: in common sense of this universe, the Store should perform a model/brand check upon each search AND download asking, to brand sure what'southward supposed to be exclusive volition stay exclusive, no thing how hard people attempt. Still in Microsoft'southward case, download requests are NOT FILTERED AT ALL.
6. Therefore if a user switches into WiFi setting, turn the proxy off, then switch back to the app description page and click the download button, he/she only gets the app. Microsoft is presume that if this button is displayed on your screen at all, your device must be well qualified, what could maybe go incorrect? Just go ahead and make yourself comfortable.
7. End of story: Nokia-exclusive apps catastrophe up on non-Nokia phones.

Yes I agree with many of y'all in the comment thread, this is technically non a glitch. Merely no, I won't call it a hack, which emphasizes efforts on the client cease. I'd say this is more a server-end trouble, a design flaw, a loophole, and a rather naive ane. It's like protecting confidential files in your computer by putting them into a hidden binder, instead of having them properly encrypted.

Unlike some are concerned about, I don't think this problem will crusade Lumia phones to cheapen for losing the advantage of sectional apps. Because: one) the loophole seems rather like shooting fish in a barrel to patch upwardly; 2) even if one manages to load a Nokia app to a HTC or Samsung phone, quite probable it just won't work, considering most of these OEM-specific apps utilize special drivers, APIs, or even hardware modules to run.

And there'southward another effect of this loophole. If a user on a depression end Lumia (like 520 or 720) connects to the Windows Phone Store through a proxy disguised every bit a top notch Lumia (920 or 925), he/she easily gains access to all apps that are originally hidden to them for non meeting RAM size requirement. That means being able to attempt out some of the most impressive apps and games on Windows Phone with just an entry-level device. But once again, there'south no promising that blockbuster apps installed through this trick will actually run smoothly on low end phone, if they run at all. Microsoft decided to hibernate them for a skillful reason: those functions, features and graphic charms merely do demand more horsepower and RAM size to come into total life. Trying to force them onto weaker devices might consequence in hellish user experience, or even crash phones.

Update:

1. Yep I saw the outcry in the annotate field. Personally I don't think it's piracy, considering all it does is to let the minority of the Windows Phone ecosystem go access to some free apps freely, in a more often than not very buggy manner. Naught is stolen, only a cluster of people having a scrap geeky fun in endless trial and error. But thanks for the reminder, guys. I'thousand all ears.
2. Still, after thinking better of it, I've basically rewritten this postal service. The tutorial for exploit is no longer there. Instead, I've decided to explicate how exactly it works, and why Microsoft is to blame in this matter.
3. If any of yous still wants to try the play a trick on out, click into the source link and puzzle the Chinese stuff out.
4. I'g a proud Lumia 920 possessor similar many of you guys. But I'm kind of in support of this exploit. So often I want to evidence my married woman how awesome Nokia'southward exclusive apps are, and why information technology's wise to ditch her HTC 8X for a 920 or the EOS, despite the bulky form factor. Nothing says the endorsement better than getting a few of Nokia's killer apps onto her own phone, and make her grown dependent on them.
5. I'd propose Nokia release a stripped downwardly version for all of its primal apps (panorama, music, Glam Me, etc) to all Windows Phones, like a free trial. Except that these trial apps won't remind users to purchase the full function, but rather ask them to consider ownership a Lumia. That would be very powerful advertising. Merely pack all those apps into i, and name information technology "THE Lumia Experience" or something like that. Windows Telephone makers differentiate themselves in apps and services instead of user interfaces, and then let the apps and services do the talking.

Source: WPDang, Sina Weibo

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