Adventures in Windows Mobile Marketplace – Part 1

Let me first prefix this series with that I still use my iPhone for daily use.  Though, I so want Windows Mobile to succeed.  Partly it is my self interest in already knowing the development stack and not owning a mac and zero interest in learning Objective C.

Recently I upgraded my HTC Touch HD to Windows Mobile 6.5 which finally included the Marketplace app.  Like a kid in a candy store, I quickly started browsing to find some cool apps that would enable my Touch HD for daily use.  What I found though was slim pickings – i.e., 16 games (total).  Now, it is still early – the marketplace only launched on Oct 6th, 2009.

So I thought, hey, I wonder what would be required to be an “early” adopter.  And that is when mBubbleWrap was born. 

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