Microsoft Wants iPhones Devs

It looks like Microsoft is aiming its sites on Apple’s App Store with the release of a document detailing how to port an iPhone app to Microsoft’s own Windows Mobile platform. The aim being to attract developers to its forthcoming Microsoft Marketplace for Mobile app store.

There are already a number of different app stores and more are set to launch in the near future. The key to success is to have a strong developer community releasing apps and content that customers actually want. Microsoft may be old hands in the mobile fields compared to Apple, but they have a lot of catching up to do in terms of their app store. Apple’s app store has been wildly successful, more than 1.6 billion downloads and over 65,000 apps. Microsoft clearly want a slice of the action and as Apple are the biggest in the field they want some of the talent that’s helped generate that success.

Will it work? Only time will tell, but Microsoft are obviously serious about their app store so we can probably expect more efforts in a similar vein.

[Via Pocket-lint]