Microsoft Wants You to Get Your iFart Apps On Windows Mobile

The iPhone app store is now riddled with flatulence generators of all sorts, and now Microsoft is looking to woo those developers among others to creators of productive, travel, and gaming, and reference titles to the Windows Mobile platform. Redmond, Washington is hoping to make it easy for iPhone app developers who have created a combined total of over 50,000 applications, to make their developments available to Windows Phone users.

The move could be seen as a reactionary effort to the overwhelming success of the iPhone App Store. Microsoft has already announced its efforts for Marketplace for Mobile, the Windows Mobile storefront for application purchases, among the many venues for obtaining Windows Phone apps. Microsoft will make app purchases on Marketplace for Mobile available for Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1, and 6.5 devices, though Marketplace for Mobile has yet to be launched. The decision by Microsoft to allow the easy porting of iPhone apps should draw many developers. If the Microsoft-provided solution proves to be easy, developers would not need to spend as much time coding and then re-coding software to make it compatible for Windows Mobile. However, the risk is that Windows Mobile apps will begin to look like iPhone applications and lose the "native" look as applications wouldn't be designed with Windows Mobile in mind. Rather, the move to Windows Mobile would only be for developers to capitalize on Marketplace for Mobile.

Unfortunately, advanced iPhone games that are graphics-intensive would not be able to use the port since Windows Mobile does not yet take advantage of OpenGL ES.

(via: msmobiles)