Since Apple launched its AppStore, many companies have tried to repeat that success. However, it was a consistent match between a very special device, the iPhone, and applications designed for capacities known. Microsoft provides the same type of online shop with its "Marketplace for Mobile", and the Company also announced it had begun accepting proposals for software for their approval.
In fact software, consider a set consisting
- The applications themselves
- Games
- Widgets
Windows Marketplace mobilePour each creation submitted, Microsoft will start a test to check the general operation of the application, just like on the Apple AppStore. According to the editor of Redmond, it takes about ten days for the procedure is complete. The status of the request is displayed in the Developer Dashboard. In case of refusal of the application, a report is sent to the software author to explain what tests have failed and why.
Obviously, the goal of all is to establish a threshold of overall quality of applications that use displays a certain coherence, both in appearance and in their manner of being used. The work should be more difficult than in the case of the iPhone, because the Marketplace will phones and devices running Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1 and 6.5 (when it becomes available). The challenge will be to unite the hordes of developers for an enjoyable experience for the user who likes to find the same philosophy and the same habits from one application to another.
There is all this to two main consequences:
- Existing applications will be available to Microsoft in order to centralize
- All users of any version of Windows Mobile concerned will benefit from technically Marketplace.
According to Microsoft, the number of users would exceed 30 million
