In the beginning of August, Microsoft released a detailed case study intended to help developers actually port their iPhone apps over to the Windows Mobile platform, a move that has many Windows Mobile customers, myself included, a bit giddy with hope. We have been turning various shades of green over the past two years, watching those fancy iPhone types with their super-slick apps and their great (by comparison) user interface; not to mention the low prices that they pay for the software. In fact, it has been driving us crazy for some time now that, due to the overwhelming popularity of the iPhone, every new and cool or old and still awesome service out there has bent its mind to the task of creating an iPhone app — leaving Windows Mobile on the backburner, or in the dust completely, regardless of the much larger size of the Windows Mobile user-base.
This new announcement provides some small amount of hope that the Windows Mobile App store (Windows Marketplace for Mobile) will bring with it some of the better iPhone apps when it launches this fall. To that end, I have made up a short list of iPhone apps that I have always wanted to see properly ported to the Windows Mobile platform. Some are already there, in some semblance or other, but could use a better design and more robust functionality. Check them out below:
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