Wired has captured the thoughts of some Windows Mobile developers and saught their views on Windows Phone 7. The results are slightly negative…
“Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. Recruiting a ton of them to create a rich app experience for Windows Phone 7 Series is going to be Microsoft’s toughest challenge if it wants to get its groove back in the mobile space.
Demonstrated last week, Microsoft’s new mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 Series looks elegant and immaculate compared to its predecessors. The OS blends together Xbox Live gaming, Zune multimedia, personal media (photos and videos), social media utilities, productivity tools and third-party apps, which are organized into categories called “Hubs.”
Even so, a neatly packed user interface doesn’t fully address the fundamental weakness of the previous Windows Mobile OS: a fragmented platform that made coding and selling apps for Windows Mobile a challenge for smaller developers.
In other words, Microsoft has long lacked the sort of widespread, enthusiastic support from independent developers — not just enterprise coders within large organizations — that made the iPhone and its App Store a blockbuster innovation…”
The other problem is I imagine many developers that have experienced the pain known as the Windows Phone Marketplace may not be too happy to continue with MS..
The latest fun was many apps suddenly vanishing from the marketplace after MS’s last marketplace update.. Generally the developers need to go (by region) and remove their app and submit again to get it back on.. (Remove listing not delete).