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Microsoft: Worried about the App Store?

Our friends at Microsoft have produced a video [YouTube link] making fun of the iPhone app store. Well, it's not that funny. In the video, two supposed MS employees talk about all the apps they have rejected for the new Windows Marketplace, including a Sun Dial app, a virtual handshaking app, and a mustache app.

The point is that the Windows Mobile store won't be offering frivolous apps, just the serious stuff. Of course it's true that plenty of the iPhone apps on offer are games, but there's no shortage of serious apps for business, photography, astronomy, navigation, and so on.

It's all a little strange; MS has always dinged the Mac on the issue of software choice, because there were far more programs for Windows than Mac OS. Now that the tables have turned and Windows Mobile users have a bit of a drought compared to the Apple app store, I guess that old comparison will be ignored. By the way, there are fart apps for Windows Mobile.

Anyway, take a peek at the video, and see if you can follow the logic.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Multimedia, Portables, Software

Microsoft: how to port iPhone apps to Windows Mobile

With just a few months to go before launching the Windows Marketplace for mobile applications, Microsoft has published details on porting iPhone apps to its Windows Mobile platform. It's a case study of the app Amplitude [App Store link], which lets users hear far-off sounds with ease. It's a detailed writeup that takes readers through the entire process.

Microsoft will have quite a task ahead of them in this market, considering Apple's considerable lead and foothold. However, there are many (to say the least) Windows Mobile devices out there as well as people for whom "Windows Mobile" means business.

It will be interesting to see if and how iPhone/iPod touch app developers choose to move their products to Windows Mobile. The Windows Marketplace for mobile applications is expected to drop between September and December of this year, as are Snow Leopard and Windows 7. It's going to be an exciting autumn.

[Via Macworld]

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