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Windows Mobile app devs get similar deal to iPhone devs

By Tim Conneally | Published March 11, 2009, 9:27 AM

The trickle of information about Microsoft's Windows Marketplace for Mobile increased substantially this morning as the company unveiled its developer program for the mobile app store. Microsoft today opened the Windows Mobile 6.5 developer program.

Developers will pay an annual registration fee of $99 which covers five submissions (selling more than five apps will cost an additional $99 each), and will receive 70% of the revenue drawn from sales in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The fees and revenue share are in the same league as those laid down by Apple with its iPhone Developer Program.

The store, (which still bears the Skymarket name in the URL) will be available in 29 countries, and Microsoft encourages developers to utilize their familiar programming languages (Visual C++, Visual C#, Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, and AJAX), and the existing Windows Mobile 6 SDK and .NET Compact Framework 3.5 to build their apps.

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fatty
Mar 11, 2009 - 1:13 PM

Here is an idea....how about just leaving a permanent story up..."Microsoft attempts to copy stuff Apple did a year ago" and just add a comment with the latest thing?

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PC_Tool
Mar 12, 2009 - 12:46 PM

Excellent! And we can have BN make a post for you in every topic that sez, "M$ suXX0rz" and you can find somewhere else to troll!

Pure genius....

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newzat
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:09 AM edited

Apple gives the IDE for free, however, Microsoft is still preventing Visual Studio Express users from using mobile SDK's and developing mobile phone apps.

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MichaelQ
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:49 AM edited

Thought the iPhone developers only paid a one-off fee of $99 - don't think it's annual.

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TIM
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:52 AM

Noted, thanks!

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JoshDev
Mar 11, 2009 - 12:29 PM

It's an annual fee for the iPhone, but there are no restrictions on the number of applications you can submit.

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