Given the utterly broken state of many current Windows Phone Twitter apps – I never did post about how pissed I am that applications like TouchTwit simply stopped working when Twitter turned on their new authentication system and many developers don’t care about updating their apps – it’s exciting to see new apps that will support Twitter in a slick, easy to use way.
Given the utterly broken state of many current Windows Phone Twitter apps – I never did post about how pissed I am that applications like TouchTwit simply stopped working when Twitter turned on their new authentication system and many developers don’t care about updating their apps – it’s exciting to see new apps that will support Twitter in a slick, easy to use way.
If you’d have to pick the focus for the Windows Phone 7 efforts that are going on before launch, it would be these three words: developers, developers, developers. Developers were the first ones to get the hardware, and Microsoft has concentrated much of their effort on getting thousands of developers on board making applications. How great these apps will be depends on what you’re looking for; without the ability to execute native code, some developers are holding off until that situation changes. And some developers, as the videos below show, are coming up with some creative apps – I’m really looking forward to firing up the Windows Phone Marketplace on my Windows Phone 7 device and seeing a broad offering of applications.
Edward J.R. over at MSMobiles.com has just put up a really great editorial on why Windows Mobile is a better OS for developers. Perhaps I’m a bit biased, but I really agreed with a lot of what he had to say.
For starters, Windows Mobile users can legally install apps that weren’t downloaded from the official Microsoft Marketplace, unlike on the iPhone where you’re breaking the law by jailbreaking your phone.
He goes on to lament the iPhone’s lack of multitasking, locked application space that prevents access to other apps (for sharing info and data), too few ‘hooks’ within the OS that developers can use to trigger events within their own apps, and more.
It’s a really good list and I encourage you to go check it out here.
As we’d previously mentioned, Microsoft – in preparation for their Marketplace launch – were toying with the idea of charging developers a whopping $99 to submit not just applications, but upgrades and updates to those applications as well.
But good news — Microsoft has backed off these plans!… BUT – Microsoft still plans to charge developers $99 a year, plus $99 per application, to submit applications to Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
Personally, I think that charging such a ridiculous amount of money for updating your software would make developers hesitant to fix problems/bugs. How ridiculous would that be?
Windows Marketplace for Mobile is expected to launch later this year with the release of Windows Mobile 6.5.
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Are you a developer looking forward to the upcoming Windows Mobile marketplace? Or maybe you’re looking to jump on the .NET development bandwagon. (Whoa, I’m trying to imagine what that bandwagon would look like…)
These Top 8 websites are everything that a Microsoft .NET developer needs!
Attention developers (yeah, yeah ‘Developers! Developers! Developers!’ I can just hear you!)– Microsoft has finally announced some juicy details about the new app store that will be available with Windows Mobile 6.5.
Developers looking to sell their applications through the upcoming Windows Marketplace can look forward to getting 70% of the revenue from the sales of each application though developers can choose to distribute their applications at absolutely no cost or set their own pricing for each market with the Marketplace due to launch in 29 countries initially.
Microsoft will be charging $99/year for registration and then another $99 per application. But for the store’s first year, developers can submit up to five of their applications for free!
More details to come, once Microsoft has finally opened their doors for registration, which is rumoured to be happening sometime this spring.
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