Mission: Windows Mobile MarketPlace

[d474rpr]

Hey everyone!

I am curious as to if anyone has checked out MarketPlace and if there is a current WinMo6.5 ROM open to the public or otherwise that has MarketPlace build in?

I must have MarketPlace asap!!!!!!!!
I appreciate all the questions and taltin shoulfe

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Pocket PC Talk (http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/f322/) Windows Mobile Marketplace: For Unicorns Only (http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/f322...nly-93202.html) by Jason Dunn 04-01-2009 11:00 PM

Marketplace is going to be for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones only, not back-ported to Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.0 phones. That's right - the millions and millions of Windows Mobile phones out there today (40+ million I'd say in the past few years alone) will not have access to this forthcoming software directory. Only people that buy brand new phones, or perhaps a tiny percentage that will get a 6.5 upgrade for their phone, will be able to access this. They might as well made it available only to unicorns - both are mythical at this moment in time.

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... Apple made the App Store available to not only new iPhone 3G owners, but first-generation iPhone owners, and owners of both first and second generation iPod Touch owners. For developers, that means millions and millions of customers that are only a few taps away from trying, and buying, their software. Overnight millionaires were made by the Apple App Store because Apple put it in front of so many customers at once. This is the right way to do it.

... They finally get around to doing an application store after an early effort got deep-sixed by their own corporate culture, and what do they do? They make the choice to limit it to users of phones that haven't even been made yet - with Windows Mobile 6.5 not due on phones until Q4 of this year, and with phone networks (in North America at least) carrying seemingly fewer and fewer Windows Mobile phones than ever, it seems like the Windows Mobile Marketplace is going to have a rocky start. ... This was Microsoft's best chance to woo developers back into the fold, and they've botched it - badly.

Gizmodo's overview.

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And a snip from Microsoft.com's current "Mobile Catalog"




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Lastly, some of you may know that an XDA-user initiated a WindowsMobile Apps store some time ago, codenamed "Gecko" (an unfortunate name they just wont give up, despite it heavily branded connected to Mozilla's web rendering engine that's been around for years)

Gecko Development Website

XDA Thread


I followed this for a while, and there was UI development from various contributors, as well as underlying code. Not sure where it stands.

Originally Posted by d474rpr Hey everyone! I am curious as to if anyone has checked out MarketPlace and if there is a current WinMo6.5 ROM open to the public or otherwise that has MarketPlace build in? I must have MarketPlace asap!!!!!!!! I appreciate all the questions and taltin shoulfe

[d474rpr]

I appreciate all the wonderful information but I'm not looking for it in a consumer capacity. I already have 6.5 loaded and running and would like to see the WinMob Market Place as a "research project", for lack of better words.

[ivanmmj]

I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean by research project?

[ace10134]

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