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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