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Windows Mobile Marketplace photos leaked, rules released
There's a bit more information coming out about Microsoft's answer to the iPhone App Store. A member of the PPC Geeks forums somehow managed to get a brief glimpse of the Windows Mobile Marketplace on his phone running a hacked version of Windows Mobile 6.5. His access appears to have been revoked, but he managed to get a few screengrabs before he was booted.And Microsoft has published a list of restrictions for Windows Mobile developers looking to make their apps available in the Marketplace. You can download a PDF file with all the details, but here are a few of the things that will get your app booted from the Windows Mobile Marketplace:
- Apps that enable VoIP over mobile operator networks
- Apps that sell, link to, or promote mobile voice plans
- Apps that distribute alternate marketplaces for content types distributed through the Windows Marketplace
- Apps with over the air download sizes of more than 10MB
- Apps that run code outside of Microsoft runtimes
- Apps that change the default browser, search client, or media player
[via WMExperts]
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Level 5 said 1:17PM on 5-05-2009
Eh, I'll stick to XDA and PPCG. I'm already used to digging for apps and updates, not a pain to keep doing it.
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David said 1:17PM on 5-05-2009
"Overall, the rules seem pretty restrictive"
Really? As compared to other marketplaces...?
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Doron Ben Chaim said 1:17PM on 5-05-2009
Anyone who pays for WinMo apps is an idiot. There are way too many free and useful apps out there. www.freewarepocketpc.net/, freewareppc.com/,
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Rod Rye said 11:50AM on 7-16-2009
Good thing there aren't as many free and useful apps for the iPhone, or Apple wouldn't have clocked up 1.5 billion acts of idiocy.
Rules for this are obviously not very restrictive at all, considering if you write any one of those apps you can just distribute it outside of the marketplace, and users don't have to break their compatibility with future patches just to install their own apps.