Windows Marketplace for Mobile to accept apps on July 27 | Max's Blog

rhm

Windows Mobile Marketplace..... <tumbleweed>

figuerres
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so who would i be selling to? I do not know of anyone in the last 4 years who has a WinMo device.
ZERO

and I develop apps for CE devices.... I do know of a few folks who used to have WIn PDA's and phones and they traded for blackberry's and iPhones.

Sorry MSFT you lost this market even before the iPhone came out.

better go back to rsearch and come back with a whole new game.

ChrisStepaniuk

Ok, instead of posting bile (like everyone else), I will attempt to write a Windows Mobile 6.5 application and submit, and I will document my journey!

maxzuck
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In reply to figuerres

#Jul 14th, 2009 @ 10:51 AM

I have one. So that's at least one person Tongue Out

figuerres
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In reply to maxzuck

#Jul 14th, 2009 @ 12:34 PM

Ok, by the way I am not against CE .... I just feel that it sucks how today almost no one (aside from developers) even knows that there is a WIndowsMobile OS.

and as I said I have 2 apps that run on CE devices made by Cassio, one of the apps is very loaded with stuff and is very critical to a clients business... I like .Net CF 3.5 *WAY* more than 1.x Smiley

aL_
Rx ftw

nice Smiley

but priorites are a little wonky i think.. games for windows has a much larger user base and it still sucks a$$.. why oh why isnt the xbox marketplace on windows? win mobile is a good step but there really needs to be a global microsoft marketplace for all the platforms.. with things like silverlight you could develop an app that runs on all these platforms, but there isnt a good distrubution channel, atleast not across all the platforms..

things liek the office addin gallery, expression and vs addins could also be interated in such a place. it would eclipse the app store in like a week Smiley

please get the lead out for a windows marketplace atleast..

Tek7

Really cool. But they need to fix their payment systems asap, right now we need a US Bank Account. We can't a Global MarketPlace platform having only U.S. developers doing apps for it.

maxzuck
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In reply to figuerres

#Jul 14th, 2009 @ 1:43 PM

I agree that for being on Version 6+, it should be more well known. But with an estimated 30 million users... it's not too shabby in my opinion.

Hakime

In reply to aL_

#Jul 14th, 2009 @ 4:56 PM

"with things like silverlight you could develop an app that runs on all these platforms, but there isnt a good distrubution channel, atleast not across all the platforms.."

SilverLight, come on!!! This is not what other platforms and even the web want, what they want is an open standard technologies for the web, SilverLight is not, Flash is not. Coupled with javascript, the new CSS Animations-3D effects if accepted by the W3C, HTML5, the new HTML streaming technology if accepted by the IETF are what they want.

"things liek the office addin gallery, expression and vs addins could also be interated in such a place. it would eclipse the app store in like a week"

This is blah, blah. I mean look at it, Apple yesterday announced that they sold more than 1.5 billions apps in one year (yes 1.5 billions!!!), they got more than 65000 apps in one year, they got more than 100,000 developers developing apps for the iPhone platform in one year.

And what you say? You are talking about office addin, expression or vs addin, those are toys, how long have windows mobile been in the market? Years, and Microsoft could not figure out how to sell apps to windows mobile users and in first place they did not figure out how to make an attractive platform for users and developers. So now, once someone has done it and proved that people are willing to buy and use apps on their phone, Microsoft again late in the game can only come in without more than ripping off the Apple's App Store. I mean look at the Market Place app, where are the new ideas, the innovation, even the interface is similar to what Apple came up with their app, so what?

Call me Apple fanboy or Microsoft hater, if you want, the matter of the fact is that some Microsoft blind fanboys (who rarely look outside their closed Microsoft world) should see the truth, the reality: Microsoft can't come up with original ideas that they can sell to people, an idea that can be successful, that people love and love the products that comes from the innovation. And i have to say that i am sad about that, a multi-billion company that continues to sell a crappy system for phones is just disappointing. You like it or not, Apple got 100,000 developers on his platform because it is innovative, modern, fun, easy to use. What is windows mobile today? Just crap, it is just crap!! Be honest, everyone having a minimum of honesty comes to the same observation. Windows mobile is old, boring, lacks modern technologies, and simply is behind the competition. Even Palm with far less resources than Microsoft managed to build an attractive platform with their webOS. It just blows away windows mobile. Sure it is very inspired from the iPhone, but they did something unique for the specific market that they want to go for in the mobile space.

People outside and inside Microsoft have to accept it, they got a crappy os for phones, as long as they pretend that everything is fine, we will never see anything good coming from Microsoft in the mobile space. And oh yes, there is Windows mobile 6.5, and what? It is awful, this is just a quick hack to keep Microsoft's head outside the water in the mobile space. And this Market Place, this is nothing, it just running behind the competition, just to say that Microsoft also does it.