It seems that the developers of operating systems for mobile has been tasting the App Store Apple has integrated with the iPhone and iPod Touch. So much so that now both Google with its Android, and Microsoft Windows Mobile want to emulate that initiative. A few days ago Salva gave us details about the App Market of Android, and today we will make a review of existing information on Skymarket, future applications that will store integrated with Windows Mobile 7.
The large number of applications available is one of the biggest advantages of Windows Mobile is something well known by all. But it is also true that while applications for Windows Mobile are dispersed and revolts by the Web, the iPhone are organized and arranged in one place, ready to be encountered by the user. This is precisely what you want to achieve with Microsoft Skymarket.
This store should see the light at the same time as Windows Mobile 7, and you can infer some things about it based on indications that Microsoft has given to people who wish to work as Senior Product Manager and Product Manager of the same. These two individuals were responsible as the responsibilities of? Define a business model that would make Skymarket at the place where developers want to publish their applications?. Wanted that the creators of applications get the best experience and all possible facilities, and that in turn can raise revenue by Redmond transactions to be conducted.
It also mentions that Skymarket would be integrated with other Microsoft products and services, what makes us remember those rumors that the Zune Marketplace could soon be accessible from Windows Mobile phones. If that's the case, Skymarket also could play the role of extending the Zune store multimedia, and thus compete with the iTunes Music Store to WiFi which is available to iPods and iPhones Touch. In advertisements published work that Microsoft also makes an explicit reference to an alleged integration with Office Live, which also provides further details.
Also, they are drawn to candidates for the post that Skymarket must be able to integrate deeply with both the mobile and Third Parties with the business plans of telephone service providers. Another interesting thing is the reference to two other alleged services, called Skyline and SkyBox. Of which there is no absolutely no information, except on who will be integrated into the Skymarlet.Ãa
No mention anything about pre-approval of content and applications by Microsoft, so we assume that it will be a relatively free directory (such as Windows Live Gallery, or App Market Android) in which the work of filtering and selection would be conducted almost exclusively by users who qualify and comment on the creations of the developers.
Someone will ask about what is the contribution of Skymarket if existed directories applications for Windows Mobile, such as Windows Mobile Catalog or mediocre Apps Windows Mobile-based Silverlight. But these directories are only accessible from a computer. Skymarket will be accessible from the mobile, and not be simply a collection of utilities, but a meeting place where developers can upload their applications and may obtain feedback from users.
Clearly the idea of creating a directory of applications for mobile not happened first Apple, nor do they have the patent for these directories. But if we must recognise the company Cuppertino the merit of offering to users of the iPhone a way to download and install applications directly from the mobile, and establish a successful meeting point between users and developers. And that's what other companies are imitating.
Anyway, if I had to choose, I would be with what we propose Skymarket of Microsoft and Google App Market. Why? Because in both cases it is an option for users and developers can meet and conduct transactions. By contrast, Apple sees the App Store as the only means by which developers can publish their work, and leaving everything that this officer outside the store almost in hiding. This is a limitation that the user already too coharta developers.
We will have to be made pending further information because the information available now is rather limited, and could almost be described as mysterious.
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