20th MobileMonday Taipei – Windows shopping: the future of Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
Posted on: April 13, 2009 – Filed under: Taipei
Microsoft plans to launch an App Store that lets Windows Mobile users find, purchase, and download programs directly from the phones. It’ll work much like the iPhone App Store and the upcoming BlackBerry App World. Microsoft will take a 30% cut on the sales of any paid applications. That’s the same fee that Apple charges, although Research in Motion keeps just 20%. Although Windows Marketplace will only works for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7, and it will be launched later this year.
It seems that because of the success of iPhone and its app store, everyone is trying to doing the same thing, could this marketplace be the answer for Windows to gain more market share in the smartphone operating systems? As for developers, what are their thoughts about this new change? This month’s MobileMonday Taipei, we invite some MVP (most valued professional) of windows mobile application development to share with us their experiences in developing windows mobile application and what they think about this change.
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Event program:
Time: 7PM, Monday, Apr. 20th, 2009
Place: Mary’s Bistro 2 Floor, No.89, Sec 2 Ren-Ai Rd., Taipei City.
Check-in: 7 PM
Presentations & Discussion: 7:30 PM
Presenters:
Mr. Kai Su, iMobile Mind
iMobile Mind is one of the global leading mobile information platform and mobile enterprise solution vendors. They are very well-known in the industry when it comes to Windows mobile developing. iMobile Mind has assisted over 60 famous global or Aisa’s enterprises to implement the mobile data applications.
Mr. Johnson Huang, Currently works for Delta Electrnoics Inc. as Research Center MMI dept. Researcher. He used to be Assistive Technology Engineering Lab. R&D div. Manager. And he is Microsoft Taiwan Corporation Windows CE Partner Trainer, also Finesse IT Partners Inc. Windows Mobile Programming Trainer.
Networking Time: 8:00 PM