Windows Phone Marketplace, The Only Place To Get Apps!!

March 16, 2010 | By Admin In Technology |

As we all speculated, the Marketplace for Windows Mobile was just a beta test for the real phones to come, Windows Phones starting with 7 series. (Oh wait, they aren’t dropping support for 6.1 and 6.5, they just won’t develop for it anymore.) Only now they added a twist. You can’t get apps from any other place but the Marketplace. Okay, I guess there is a lot of support for this sort of thing. Apparently the Marketplace is pretty. Thanks Gizmodo. I do, however, doubt that it will take long for this “perk” to be overridden like the iPhone was. Check out Windowsphonethoughts.com for a video of the Marketplace in action.

Then there is the question of who’s apps are going along with this ride. And the answer is a whole lot:

“The Associated Press, Archetype International Inc., AWS Convergence Technologies – WeatherBug, Citrix Systems Inc., Clarity Consulting Inc., Cypress Consulting, EA Mobile, Fandango Inc., Foursquare Labs Inc., frog design inc., Glu Mobile Inc., Graphic.ly, Hudson Entertainment Inc., IdentityMine Inc., IMDb.com Inc., Larva Labs, Match.com LLC, Matchbox Mobile Ltd., Microsoft Game Studios, Namco Networks America Inc., Oberon Media Inc., Pageonce Inc., Pandora Media Inc., Photobucket Inc., PopCap Games Inc., Seesmic, Shazam Entertainment Ltd., Sling Media, SPB Software Inc., stimulant, TeleCommunications Systems Inc., Touchality LLC and Vertigo Software Inc.”

Thanks to Gadgetell for the list, but I am sure that before the release of these phones we will see at least a few more developers getting on board. Okay most likely a lot more.

So with the thousands of apps that are sure to be available in the next year or so and the horrible news that multitasking and removable storage are dead, why are the specs so low. Intomobile has a release showing at least 256 MB of RAM and 8 GB of flash memory. these numbers are far too low to allow for a stunning device running lots of apps. Even if there is no multitasking. OUCH…. In my opinion if you aren’t going to allow for removable storage then you have to bring these numbers up to AT LEAST the iPhone’s storage. So with all this news just finally breaking I am sure that all you JAMM readers out their have some big opinions with what is happening. Leave a comment and let us know your thoughts.

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