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Microsoft launches Windows Mobile Applications directory - lame attempt to imitate iPhone App Store ?

 
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:10 am    Post subject: Microsoft launches Windows Mobile Applications directory - lame attempt to imitate iPhone App Store ? Reply with quote
It requires Silverlight, has no search function and lists only less important programs (example: the best GPS program TomTom is not listed at all in GPS category!). It also is not running inside of Windows Mobile ph...

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
yeh that sure is one terrible web site.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you read the article and comments of where this post originated, you'll see that the Microsoft Product Catalog for Windows Mobile has existed long before anything like that from Apple, so you can't really say it's an attempt to imitate the iPhone App store. If it was, it probably would have been designed to run on Windows Mobile.

What we're looking at is just another desktop website.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Microsoft launches Windows Mobile Applications directory Reply with quote
Well, like Microsoft's Live Mesh, at least it's a start.
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