RSSWindows Marketplace for Mobile launches on WinMo 6.0 and 6.1
By Tim Conneally | Published November 16, 2009, 2:16 PM
Windows Marketplace for Mobile launched exclusively with Windows Mobile 6.5 in October, and unified the vast Windows Mobile application ecosystem under a single umbrella.
Prior to launch, Microsoft announced that users running Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 would eventually have access to the new app marketplace, but did not provide a specific date.
That date, it would appear, is today.
Following up on last week's addition of the Web-based Marketplace, the Windows Mobile team has unveiled support for all Windows Mobile 6.0+ devices. To get the Marketplace app, users can point their mobile browser to mp.windowsphone.com to start downloading.
We're in the process of checking it out now, and we'll let you know how it goes. If you've already gotten your hands on it, let us know what you think!
Current Status: Up and running, initial selection for Windows Mobile 6.0 devices is decent (I only count 84 apps), app profile pages port nicely down to the smaller screen.
Amusing the love for WM here. People are abandoning WM in droves.
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|I try to love all the major mobile platforms equally...though Blackberry and Symbian do get somewhat neglected around here.
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|"People are abandoning WM in droves."
Source?
Please don't tell me it's market share numbers....I would like to believe you're smarter than that.
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|Can't speak for everybody but i went from android to my touch pro2 and i'm loving it!
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|Touch pro2 here as well--best mobile phone I've ever used. Glad I picked it over the Droid.
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|What kind of pap is this? If WM is losing marketshare, it means fewer people are buying the damn thing.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/...64,00.htm?tag=mncol;txt
WM is down 28% among smartphones in Q3 2009. Since you can't seem to understand what that means, it means that, yes, a lot fewer people are buying WM phones these days compared to iPhones, Blackberries, and Symbian phones. Like duh.
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|"What kind of pap is this? If WM is losing marketshare, it means fewer people are buying the damn thing."
Nope. Not even close. The market, you see, is growing.
"Since yuou can't seem to understand"...let me explain...
Example (Totally BS numbers):
Microsoft sells 10 billion units with WM on them (Microsoft doesn't sell phones, I know...) and gets a market share of 80%.
Apple starts selling iPhones. People who never wanted a smartphone before are now flocking, in droves, to the iPhone, say...7 billion users. Dropping Microsoft's WM share of the market to 60% and giving Apple 40% (the math is wrong, but you get the drift).
MS still has 10 billion out there, but the market has grown an additional 7 billion.
This is really as simply as I can put it: Market share does not indicate actual usage, just ratio; regardless of what the marketing number spinners want you to think.
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|Fine, you asked for it:
Microsoft has lost BOTH marketshare, AND people are abandoning the platform.
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|Wow. You just don't get it, do you? Just saying it doesn't make it so. If you have a source to back up your claims, I would love to see it, but you've already ignored that request once.
Care to try again?
As they say, "In God we trust, all others bring data."
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|"As they say, "In God we trust, all others bring data.""
Who's "they"?
Source? ;)
EDIT: Ah hah... W. Edwards Deming, physicist and quality improvement pioneer =P
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|Yup. Lean Six Sigma motto....or, well...one of many, actually. :p
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