After many have questioned when the Windows Mobile app store will hit town, we have speculation from Engadget Mobile that the mobile marketplace for cloud computing will appear around the time of Windows Mobile 7, the next major system overhaul following Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1. The app store for Windows Mobile 7 may be called Skymarket.

Engadget Mobile had obtained information regarding Skymarket from a job posting for a Microsoft project manager position.

If a Windows Mobile Marketplace for Mobile Devices, otherwise known as Skymarket, were to hit your beloved handheld, it is uncertain how this will change or effect the mobile ecosystem. Currently, apps are distributed by the software makers themselves, through third-party vendors like Handango, or distributed through free hosted services like on XDA-Developers or freely over the internet. Microsoft will probably take the laissez-faire approach and not be as autocratic about what makes it into the app store as Apple has been with the iPhone App Store, but only time will tell.