Comments on: Will $99 Keep the Microsoft App Store Fartless? http://gigaom.com/mobile/will-99-keep-the-microsoft-app-store-fartless/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:57:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Techni http://gigaom.com/mobile/will-99-keep-the-microsoft-app-store-fartless/#comment-414459 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:29:48 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=31589#comment-414459 As someone who uses MS’s tools on an almost daily basis (including MSDN) I can’t fathom someone calling them arcane. MS’s tools are so good they cripple my ability to code for anything but Windows.

]]> By: Scotty http://gigaom.com/mobile/will-99-keep-the-microsoft-app-store-fartless/#comment-414458 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:49:30 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=31589#comment-414458 Actually what everyone is forgetting is that to develop for Windows Mobile you really need to shell out $3K for the tools and MSDN subscription to understand how to use the arcane toolkit to write a mobile app. Then spend six months at whom knows how much $$$ per month reading MSDN and tinkering with the dev tools.

By the time Microsoft taps you in the back of the head for $99 you will be feeling no pain what-so-ever.

Apple charges as little as $1K for the developer tools and they throw in a computer on the deal. :-)

]]> By: C.B. http://gigaom.com/mobile/will-99-keep-the-microsoft-app-store-fartless/#comment-414457 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:38:59 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=31589#comment-414457 So will next x miss will people be giving out windows mobile gift cards to use in their store. I pray these apps will use active sync to install / buy. I would rather die than use windows media player or Zune software to install or buy anything.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/mobile/will-99-keep-the-microsoft-app-store-fartless/#comment-414456 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:16:42 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=31589#comment-414456 Update: I did. Thanks to both of you for the heads up. I didn’t realize that the ADC membership is an umbrella program and that Apple has a specific $99 individual and/or $299 enterprise iPhone development fee. In that case: beware of the fart apps! :)

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/mobile/will-99-keep-the-microsoft-app-store-fartless/#comment-414455 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:14:10 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=31589#comment-414455 Hmmm… I must have misunderstood my free membership in the ADC program. I suppose it’s limited and that I can’t develop or submit iPhone apps?

]]> By: Sumocat http://gigaom.com/mobile/will-99-keep-the-microsoft-app-store-fartless/#comment-414454 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:12:19 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=31589#comment-414454 Ditto on the random guy. You may want to start thinking about taking gingko, Kev. ;P

]]> By: Random iPhone Developer http://gigaom.com/mobile/will-99-keep-the-microsoft-app-store-fartless/#comment-414453 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:28:30 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=31589#comment-414453 Apple already charges $99/year for their developer program, and I doubt a lot of developers have submitted more than five apps. So I doubt this alone will mean a substantial change in the quality of submissions. More consequential may be that fewer people will see an equivalent “gold rush” opportunity for Windows Mobile apps.

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